Jeff Olivet, Executive Director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness will be the keynote speaker at the Second Biennal Confeence on Homelessness Solutions according to a press release issued from Preble Street today.  The annual event will be held … Continue reading →

More than $171,000. in Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) grants will help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Cumberland County according to a press release issued today by Maine CF.  It announced today that it has awarded $15,463 to 18 organizations … Continue reading →

Maggie McLoughlin has been nominated to serve as Director of the Health & Human Services Department and Kevin Kraft has been nominated to serve as Director of the Planning &  Urban Development Department by the city manager Danelle West it … Continue reading →

Anthony Lobor, 25, of 42 Kellogg Street, was arrested yesterday afternoon for multiple charges including Violation of Conditions of Release.  Initially Lobor was reported to the Portland Police Department for threatening customers at a fried chicken restaurant at 408 Forest … Continue reading →

Cole Swan, 18, of Yarmouth, was arrested just after midnight this morning for multiple charges including Violating Conditions of Release and illegal drug charges.  He was taken to Cumberland County Jail.  With Swan in his vehicle was a 16 year … Continue reading →

The Grand Opening of Rabelis Books, a pop-up culinary  bookstore, was held on Friday, July 5th at the Black Boxes shipping containers complex at 93  Washington Avenue according to business owner Don Lundgren.  The pop-up closes in late September 2024. … Continue reading →

“MAUD” – a thirteen year old cat has been missing since the Fourth of July says her owner Jean Langkau, a resident of Cedar Street in East Byside.  Jean was distributing handbills featuring her photograph in the parking lot of … Continue reading →

  “I’m staying in the race,” a fit and vigorous President Biden  told a crowd at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, this afternoon.  “I will beat Trump again.” On a campaign to restore confidence in his ability to successfully beat … Continue reading →

Two weeks of construction will begin on Monday, July 8th to install a new catch basin and pipe at the intersection of  Baxter Boulelbard and Hannaford Plaza Road.  Work will require a traffic control plan which will restrict access entering … Continue reading →

Governor Janet T. Mills (D) participated in the meeting with the President tonight remotely from Maine.  The following is a comment from  her: “I appreciated the opportunity to talk with the President.  We had a candid and constructive conversation in … Continue reading →