PORTLAND — A series of real estate transactions that have the potential to transform Portland’s waterfront closed this week. The Portland Co.’s complex at 58 Fore St. was sold on Monday to a group of developers, according to Tony McDonald, the broker with CBRE/The Boulos Co. who closed the deal. McDonald represented the property’s former […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The only cryptozoology museum in the world, and Maine’s got it.
PORTLAND — Part-way down a rough, graffitied alley, through what was once almost certainly a side delivery door, you’ll find monsters and Loren Coleman. The space off Avon Street is home to the only cryptozoology museum in the world, two sizable rooms that Coleman has informally labeled fiction and nonfiction. Bigfoot is in the second. […]
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LePage blasts Senate president for school remarks
PORTLAND— Maine’s outspoken governor, who was homeless as a child, and a legislative leader born into a wealthy family exchanged attacks over charter schools Wednesday, reigniting a fiery political debate in the state over school choice. The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank, hosted an event at Portland’s Baxter Academy to celebrate the […]
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Portland considers buffer zone around Planned Parenthood clinic
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland City Council is weighing a proposal to create a so-called buffer zone around a Planned Parenthood clinic. Planned Parenthood and city officials told a council committee hearing Tuesday night that patients entering and leaving the clinic are being harassed and intimidated by a group of anti-abortion protesters who gather each […]
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Jury finds Scarborough man not guilty of attempted murder, but convicts on 3 other counts
PORTLAND — The defense is declaring a partial victory Monday in the trial of a Scarborough man accused of severely beating a Portland woman after the jury found Eric Gwaro not guilty of attempted murder but guilty of three other charges. Gwaro, 28, was found not guilty of Class A attempted murder, but guilty of […]
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Alfond attacks new Portland charter school for aligning with ‘extreme organization’
PORTLAND — Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, attacked a new charter school in his district Friday for aligning itself with what he called one of the most extreme political organizations in Maine. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a new charter school set to open this fall in Portland, will host a policy luncheon next […]
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LePage backs Maine company competing to restart Portland-Nova Scotia ferry service
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is officially throwing his weight behind the only Maine-based company currently competing for a contract to restart ferry service between Maine and Nova Scotia. On Tuesday, LePage sent a letter to Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter to publicly back Eliot, Maine-based Quest Navigation’s proposal to restart the ferry service, which […]
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Portland Fire Department gets $1.1M federal grant
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Fire Department has received a $1.1 million grant to help staff a special hazards response team. The grant will fund firefighter positions on the department’s Rescue 1 apparatus, which responds to confined space fires, hazardous material emergencies, and other special hazards. It is the second time the city has received […]
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Portland man converses with ‘angels of the urban sky’
PORTLAND — He didn’t know it at the time, but when a crate tumbled off the back of a truck moving through Chelsea, Mass., more than 40 years ago, it was a defining moment for Starr Sarabia. Then 9, he implored his father to pull over and check the crate out. Now known around Maine’s […]
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Latest Portland plan to reduce panhandlers? Find them jobs
“A large percentage of the people who testified [on the median strip ordinance] said people were in those median strips because of the economic conditions and [lack of] jobs,” Portland Mayor Michael Brennan told the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday. “They criticized the city for not doing more to help solve the root problem of […]