By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,991) Sixty students from the East End Community School attended a celebration of the completion  of the Mount Joy Orchard on the hillside across from their school this morning.  The occasion was the planting of twelve … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,990) “I know there are some who are upset there are no bricks here, so I brought my own,” said Tim Soley, holding up a brick so those crowded into the lobby of the new … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,889) The City Council voted this evening to approve a budget proposed by the Finance Committee in the amount of $220,985,836 or a 3% increase for the 2015 budget.  That also includes the school budget … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,888) Excavation of the former Theriault/Landsman architectural firm building at the top of Munjoy Hill on Congress Street is set to begin tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00 am according to the project manager.  By the … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,887) Munjoy Hill has been chosen to be the  site of a tree planting ceremony as part of this week’s celebration of Maine Arbor Week.  The planting happens on Wednesday, May 21, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm on … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,886) “I’m a hoarder.  It’s a habit I can’t break even though my boyfriend told me I had to.  I had to find a place to get rid of this stuff and this is it,” … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,885) Passengers from all over the East Coast began arriving at Ocean Gateway this afternoon  preparing for the maiden voyage of the Nova Star to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, tonight.  About three hundred passengers will make the … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,884) The Portland City Council will hold a public hearing to consider a zoning map amendment from R-6 Residential to R-7 Residential in the vicinity of Boyd Street, Mayo Street and Oxford Street.  The meeting is … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post $ 1,883) The much-anticipated opening of the new Lolita, 90 Congress Street on Munjoy Hill, has now been pushed back to Memorial Day Weekend from this week said one of the owners, Guy Hernandez, this afternoon.  The owners … Continue reading →

By Carol McCracken  (Post # 1,882) “We want to bring folks into Portland to see what we have here,” said Mayor Michael Brennan this morning at a press conference in the DiMillo’s  Restaurant Parking Lot on Commercial Street.  The purpose of … Continue reading →