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 […]
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Catherine King Oliver
1916 – 2014 LEWISTON — Catherine King Oliver, 98, of Portland died on Friday, May 30, attended by family members as she joined her beloved husband, Vincent, in Heaven. She was born in Boston on March 3, 1916, to Patrick and Barbara Joyce King, recent arrivals from Ballyconneely County, Galway, Ireland. She left Boston at age […]
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High-priced, under-the-radar rentals alter Maine’s lodging landscape
PORTLAND — With this week’s unofficial arrival of the summer tourism season, visitors to southern Maine have more lodging options than ever – including ones that some people consider illegal. Corey Saentz’ three-bedroom apartment on Munjoy Hill in Portland is ready for short-term renters, and is equipped with local works of art, kitchen tools, bedding […]
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High-priced, under-the-radar rentals alter Maine’s lodging landscape
PORTLAND — With this week’s unofficial arrival of the summer tourism season, visitors to southern Maine have more lodging options than ever – including ones that some people consider illegal. Corey Saentz’ three-bedroom apartment on Munjoy Hill in Portland is ready for short-term renters, and is equipped with local works of art, kitchen tools, bedding […]
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Last man to walk on moon visits Portland, says children are key to Mars mission
PORTLAND — Eugene Cernan used a few extra lunar maps, some light-stand clips and duct tape to make a fender for the rover he used to travel on the moon. “Without it, the lunar dust would rooster tail up behind it,” Cernan said. “If we hadn’t been up there in person, an unmanned vehicle never […]
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‘We need dreamers’: Last man to walk on moon visits Portland
PORTLAND — Eugene Cernan used a few extra lunar maps, some light-stand clips and duct tape to make a fender for the rover he used to travel on the moon. “Without it, the lunar dust would rooster tail up behind it,” Cernan said. “If we hadn’t been up there in person, an unmanned vehicle never […]