PORTLAND (AP) — Maine police are searching for a suspect on the run after a late-night shooting left a man with life-threatening injuries. Portland police say the shooting happened late Tuesday evening. WCSH-TV reports the victim was in surgery in the early hours of Wednesday morning and is considered to be in critical condition. Police […]
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What’s that fowl smell? Truck spills chicken parts in Portland
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — There’s a fowl smell wafting through Maine’s largest city. Police say a truck carrying chicken parts malfunctioned, spilling gallons of poultry bits onto a Portland street early Tuesday. Residents dealt with a foul smell from the area, and motorists drove through the spill site before it was cleared. Police closed off […]
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Portland mayor wants group to consider expanding his power
PORTLAND (AP) — The mayor of Maine’s biggest city wants a citizen group to consider changes to the city charter in a bid to expand the limited authority of his office. The Portland Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/2rLojVC ) that Mayor Ethan Strimling said Monday he believes voters wanted a stronger leader when they voted for […]
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Drop the Portland envy
One of the recurring themes advanced by those supporting a merger of the Twin Cities, creating a ponderous big city straddling the Androscoggin River, is that the Twin Cities are in a competition of some sort with Portland. Once Lewiston and Auburn are merged, the new city will rise up and slay the powerful dragon […]
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Plan to curb panhandling takes people from begging to work
In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo Derek Cote, a homeless man, panhandles in the median strip on a street in Portland. The city recently began a program to offer day jobs cleaning up parks and other light labor jobs to panhandlers for $10.68 an hour. PORTLAND — Cleaning trash and landscaping public parks might […]
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Portland Jetport adding international flight to Nova Scotia
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland-based airline plans to launch flights from Maine’s largest city to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June. Elite Airways says flights will begin on June 30. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/2pZ9UY1) reported the route will operate Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at fares that start at $169 each way. The flights will leave […]
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Gridlock, garbage, danger: Study aims to tame Forest Avenue corridor
PORTLAND — Failure and promise were on display at Morrills Corner on April 27 as rush-hour traffic passed in fits and bursts. “When people ask why I don’t walk to work, I tell them, ‘Morrills Corner,’” Josh Pelletier said, though he lives no more than half a mile from his job at the University of […]
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Bishop Deeley announces priest assignments
PORTLAND — Bishop Robert P. Deeley has announced the following two priest assignments, effective immediately. The Rev. Steven G. Cartwright has been appointed parochial vicar of Holy Trinity Parish in Lisbon Falls and Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Sabattus, which also includes St. Francis Church in Greene. This appointment is in addition to […]
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Portland taxi driver stabbed in neck; bystanders come to rescue
PORTLAND (AP) — Officials say a taxi driver survived a stabbing outside a Portland, Maine, strip club but had to be taken to a Boston hospital because of the extent of his injuries. Police say the 60-year-old driver put his hand up to protect himself as 30-year-old Justin Kristiansen stabbed him in the neck after […]
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Stefanko appointed pastor of 3 churches
PORTLAND — Monsignor Paul F. Stefanko has been appointed pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Scarborough, St. Bartholomew Parish in Cape Elizabeth, and St. John and Holy Cross Parish in South Portland, effective July 1. Monsignor Stefanko is currently the pastor of St. Joseph Parish (St. Joseph Church, Bridgton; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, […]