Airbnb listings in Maine continued their rapid growth last year, as the online home-sharing service cements its foothold in the state’s hospitality market. About 282,000 people stayed in a Maine Airbnb in 2017, a 62 percent increase from the year before, according to new statistics provided to the Portland Press Herald. Airbnb hosts in Maine […]
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Trevor Noah to appear at Merrill Auditorium
Trevor Noah will appear at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 16. The host of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Noah’s success has spanned to sold-out shows over five continents. A limited number of tickets are available. The presale starts online at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24; […]
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Controversial Portland program uses marijuana and kratom to treat opioid addiction
Arron Veysey credits marijuana, kratom and Roxanne Gullikson with helping him quit an opioid habit that was ruining his life. “She basically saved my life,” said Veysey, 33, who works as a prep cook at a Portland retirement home. “I’m able to get up and go to work every day, and have a life. I […]
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Some concerns accompany Portland's hotel construction boom
PORTLAND — Hotel capacity in the city could expand by as many as 900 rooms in the near future. With the growth, there continues to be discussion about a workforce-housing impact fee tied to hotel development, and whether the city needs a convention center to help attract a steady stream of business travelers. Plans are in […]
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Toys R Us will close stores in South Portland, Bangor
Toys R Us announced late Tuesday it will close one-fifth of its stores, including two in Maine. The Babies R Us in South Portland and the Toys R Us store in Bangor are among the 180 stores that will close between early February and mid-April, Toys R Us chief executive David Brandon said in a […]
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'Conquest of South Pole' set in Rumford, Maine
PORTLAND — Snowlion Repertory Company will present “The Conquest of the South Pole” beginning Friday, Jan. 26, at the Portland Ballet Studio Theater, 517 Forest Ave. Four unemployed Rumford, Maine, mill workers, at the edge of despair, concoct an innovative way to empower themselves amidst the hardships of their lives. Led by their magnetic leader, Slupianek […]
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Dinosaurs roar into Portland’s Monument Square
Why did the T. rex cross the road? On most days, the right answer might be because the chicken hadn’t evolved yet. Or to get to the other side of the extinction event. But on Saturday, any dinosaurs spotted in a Portland crosswalk would have been headed over to the T. rex gathering in Monument […]
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Mob dressed as Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs to storm Portland on Saturday
PORTLAND (AP) — A horde of people dressed in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes are set to descend on Portland’s Monument Square. A Facebook event set up by Alison Cyr and Valerie Sanborn calls for more than 100 people in T. rex costumes to arrive Saturday around 3 p.m. to dance around. Sanborn tells WGME-TV […]
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Pauline E. Stepp
POLAND SPRING — Pauline Elaine (Polly) Stepp, 93, of 151 Watson Road, Poland Spring, went to be with the Lord on Friday, Jan. 5. She was born April 18, 1924, in Augusta, to Minnie Curtis (Benner) and Alfred Clifton Eastman Jr. Polly met and married her husband, Willis (“Red”) Stepp, when Red was serving in the […]
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Reta K. Herrick
LEWISTON — Reta K. (Kinney) Herrick, 79, passed away peacefully Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, after a brief illness. She was born in Eaton, Maine, on November 24, 1938, the daughter of the late George F. and Millicent (McLellan) Kinney. Reta lived in Maine her entire life. She grew up in Danforth and graduated from East Grand […]