The ballot question Tuesday asked Portland residents if they wanted to add 35 open spaces to the city’s list of protected lands and make it more difficult to sell them. The key piece was Congress Square Plaza, a half-acre plaza in downtown Portland. The city wanted to sell most of the plaza to an Ohio-based […]
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Outdoor dining squeezes Portland’s sidewalks
PORTLAND — A battle is brewing in Portland between restaurants putting tables on the sidewalks to satisfy customer demand for alfresco dining and those who say the sidewalks are being impeded. Sight-impaired pedestrians, wheelchair users, stroller-pushing parents and other walkers have lodged official complaints about restaurants overextending into the sidewalk space in violation of their […]
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Fear didn’t strike out Sea Dogs pitcher
PORTLAND — Brian Johnson isn’t just willing to return to the scene of his worst nightmare. He’s doing everything in his power to make it happen. If he continues pitching as well he has been this season, including since his May 2 promotion to the Portland Sea Dogs, he may be back on the Fenway […]
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Outdoor dining squeezes Portland’s sidewalks
PORTLAND (AP) — A battle is brewing in Portland between restaurants putting tables on the sidewalks to satisfy customer demand for alfresco dining and those who say the sidewalks are being impeded. Sight-impaired pedestrians, wheelchair users, stroller-pushing parents and other walkers have lodged official complaints about restaurants overextending into the sidewalk space in violation of […]
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Eastern League: Baysox walk over Sea Dogs
PORTLAND — For anyone needing a break from the trials, tribulations and overall impotence of their parent club, the Portland Sea Dogs have presented a much more frisky and entertaining alternative through the first two months of the 2014 season. The Boston Red Sox’ Double-A affiliate spent those first two months of the season running […]
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Old Port Festival kicks off in Portland
PORTLAND (AP) — The 41st annual Old Port Festival is getting under way in earnest with a day of circuses and scavenger hunts in Portland, Maine. The festival, which celebrates the waterfront of Maine’s largest city, began on Friday evening and continues Saturday. It will include a downtown scavenger hunt that begins at 1 Monument […]
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Cutler vows to be Maine’s ‘education governor;’ LePage and Michaud also tout records
PORTLAND — Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler on Tuesday rolled out his education platform in whistle-stops in Bangor and Portland. Cutler, of Cape Elizabeth, is running against incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Maine’s 2nd District U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, a Democrat from East Millinocket. Michaud is leaving Congress to run for governor. Cutler, […]
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Regulators to consider next Maine shrimp season
PORTLAND — Federal regulators will hold a meeting in New Hampshire to consider whether there will be a commercial fishing season for northern shrimp in 2014-15. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission scrapped the shrimp season in the Gulf of Maine for 2013-14 for the first time in more than 30 years after shrimp populations […]
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Amtrak releases identity of woman struck, killed by train in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — A 39-year-old South Portland woman was killed Saturday evening when she was struck by a southbound Downeaster train about one mile south of the Portland Transportation Center. Nyla J. Howard was hit by Train 698 at 6:55 p.m., according to an email from Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods. Woods said Howard was trespassing […]
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Portland hosts minority health conference at UNE
PORTLAND (AP) — The University of New England’s Portland campus will host the 4th Annual Maine Minority Health Conference on June 13. The event will take place from 7 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. at the Stevens Avenue campus. This year’s theme is “Prevention is Power: The Triple Aim and Taking Action for Health Equity.” The […]