Led by their teacher, 2024 Maine Teacher of the Year Joshua Chard, third-graders from East End Community School (EECS) designed nature-themed ornaments that are now decorating Maine’s tree as part of the 2024 National Christmas Tree display at the White … Continue reading →

The Maine Community Foundation’s  (MaineCF) Welch Charitable Fund has awarded $222,443 to nineteen (19) orgaizations that serve Greater Portland it was announced this afternoon by Taylor Mace, Senior Communications and Marketing Sspecialist. The fund supports organizatios that assist people in … Continue reading →

Governor Janet T. Mills (D) announced today that she has appointed Tarian Ahmadov, a seasoned workforce development leader and former state refugee coordinator, as the first Director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA)/ Ahmadov has more than 20 … Continue reading →

Five locations will be receiving $1 million in federal funding to build greater food resilence in Maine’s food sysem while supporting local suppliers and purveyors.  The funds come through the US Department of Agriculture and will support five chain infrastructure … Continue reading →

On Monday, December 16, 2024, at approximaely 11:30 am., Troopers responded to a single vehicle crash at Exit 79 on the Turnpike in Lewiston involving a pickup truck hauling a cattle trailer. The driver was traveling southbound when the incident … Continue reading →

On the occasion of the designation of the Secretary Frances Perkins’ Homestead as a National Monument, cable news anchor Lawrence O’Donnell told the story of how the recent Mount Holyoke College graduate saw the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in … Continue reading →

This afternoon President Joe Biden will designate the ancestral homestead of Secretary Frances Perkins, 478 River Road, Newcastle, a national monument when he signs a proclamation establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument. The announcement is expected to come around 1:00 … Continue reading →

On the night of December 14, 2024, a harowing accident occurred on the Maine Turnpike in Falmouth.  State Police received a report of a wrong-way driver at mile marker 53.  A vehicle was dangerously traveling northbound in the southbound lane, … Continue reading →

Late this week, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced more than $13,2.million is coming to Maine to support private forestland management and conservation. The grants for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) and the New England Forestry Foundation … Continue reading →

The 98th annual presentation of the “Pageant of the Nativity” is scheduled for this Sunday, December 15 at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist, 425 Congress Street, at 5:00 pm, in Portland. The first performance was back in 1926 and some … Continue reading →