AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is officially throwing his weight behind the only Maine-based company currently competing for a contract to restart ferry service between Maine and Nova Scotia. On Tuesday, LePage sent a letter to Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter to publicly back Eliot, Maine-based Quest Navigation’s proposal to restart the ferry service, which […]
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Portland Fire Department gets $1.1M federal grant
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Fire Department has received a $1.1 million grant to help staff a special hazards response team. The grant will fund firefighter positions on the department’s Rescue 1 apparatus, which responds to confined space fires, hazardous material emergencies, and other special hazards. It is the second time the city has received […]
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Portland man converses with ‘angels of the urban sky’
PORTLAND — He didn’t know it at the time, but when a crate tumbled off the back of a truck moving through Chelsea, Mass., more than 40 years ago, it was a defining moment for Starr Sarabia. Then 9, he implored his father to pull over and check the crate out. Now known around Maine’s […]
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Latest Portland plan to reduce panhandlers? Find them jobs
“A large percentage of the people who testified [on the median strip ordinance] said people were in those median strips because of the economic conditions and [lack of] jobs,” Portland Mayor Michael Brennan told the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday. “They criticized the city for not doing more to help solve the root problem of […]
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Suspect in Portland street assault goes to trial
PORTLAND (AP) — The trial of a Scarborough man charged with assaulting a woman on a Portland street and leaving her with permanent brain injuries is getting started. Jury selection in the trial of 28-year-old Eric Gwaro was completed Monday and opening statements are expected Tuesday. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/13zTPoT ) reported that Gwaro […]
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Authorities identify Portland swimmer who died
PORTLAND — A man who died Friday evening after he was pulled from the Fore River earlier that day was identified Sunday as 49-year-old Patrick Flynn of Portland. Nicole Clegg, spokeswoman for the city of Portland, released the information late Sunday afternoon. The South Portland Fire Department went to the Thomas Knight Park dock, directly […]
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Portland’s Momentum offers barbershop alongside hip clothes for young men
PORTLAND — Growing up in South Portland, Jason Dodge had to strike out to the mall if he wanted to shop for style. As the skater and biker grew older and more fashion-conscious, it became harder to find duds in Maine that fit his lifestyle. “I had to shop in Boston and New York and […]
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Man dies swimming in Fore River
PORTLAND — A man swimming in the Fore River near the Casco Bay Bridge Friday afternoon was rescued by the Portland Fire Department, but later died at Maine Medical Center. Just before 5:30 p.m., the South Portland Fire Department responded to the Thomas Knight Park dock, directly underneath the bridge, for a report that a […]
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Marijuana: The patients, the politics, the future
“Patrick” eats half a marijuana-laced brownie every night to keep away chronic diabetic nerve pain. The Sabattus man has a note from his doctor and buys from the local dispensary. Two years ago, “Barbie” in Peru secretly swapped legal prescription painkillers for marijuana for her chronic neck pain, growing one or two plants on the […]
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Stray bullet misses sleeping child in Portland
PORTLAND — Portland police are investigating gunfire in which one of the bullets nearly hit a sleeping child. Police canvassed a neighborhood Friday for witnesses and videotape footage that might yield clues. They don’t believe the sleeping child or her father were targeted. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/15Q0Ss6 ) says police found a hole in […]