Video streaming by Ustream PORTLAND — The Portland Pirates are going home. The American Hockey League affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes has called the Androscoggin Bank Colisee of Lewiston home this season after a lease dispute boiled up late last summer between the club and the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland. But Pirates ownership […]
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Maine Winter Sports Center losing Libra’s funding
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Winter Sports Center that produced Olympian Russell Currier is losing funding from a philanthropic organization that created it. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1aZzgZo ) said the Libra Foundation will no longer provide funding after April 1. The Portland-based foundation has distributed more than $30 million to the Maine Winter Sports […]
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Facial hair fest planned in Maine’s biggest city
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s largest city is gearing up to celebrate the mustache. The first annual Portland Facial Hair Fest to be held in March includes the seventh-annual Stache Pag, a mustache pageant, along with the Beard and Mustache Competition and the International Moustache Film Festival. Most of the events are being held at the […]
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Kansas co-op buys Oakhurst Dairy
PORTLAND — Oakhurst Dairy, the largest milk processor in northern New England, has been sold to a national dairy farmer-owned cooperative, allowing the family-owned business to continue to operate independently while providing opportunities for growth, company officials announced Friday. Operators of Portland-based Oakhurst said the agreement with Kansas City, Mo.-based Dairy Farmers of America will open […]
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Silicon Valley investor from Lewiston sees growth in Maine seafood company
PORTLAND — Darrell Pardy isn’t afraid to think big. He and his business partner, Ray Swenton, have already grown their company, Bristol Seafood Inc., into one of the largest seafood processors in Maine. From its facility on Portland’s waterfront, the company employs 75 people and does $40 million a year in business. But Pardy, Bristol’s […]
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Portland man faces counterfeiting charges
PORTLAND (AP) — Police have arrested a Portland man they say has been making and spending counterfeit $20 bills. Several businesses in Portland and Falmouth have reported getting fake $20 bills in the past few weeks. On Tuesday, police aided by the U.S. Secret Service executed a search warrant at the home of 27-year-old Jonathan […]
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Portland restaurant closes after failed inspection
PORTLAND — A long-time Congress Street Mexican restaurant closed its doors this week in an abrupt manner. According to the city’s Public Health Division website, Mesa Verde failed two food safety inspections since June, including one on Jan. 17. The report documents a litany of problems from fruit flies in the kitchen to food not properly refrigerated. […]
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MPBN will not televise Class A basketball finals this year
The high school basketball Class A state finals in Portland will not be televised by Maine Public Broadcasting Network this March because of a disagreement between Time Warner Cable and the Cumberland County Civic Center, according to a news release from MPBN. MPBN has been informed by Time Warner Cable that it has been unable […]
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Trustees send Pirates a new lease proposal
PORTLAND — The Board of Trustees for the Cumberland County Civic Center have sent a new lease proposal to the Portland Pirates on Wednesday that could end the nearly year-long saga with the American Hockey League franchise that’s called Portland home for more than two decades. Neal Pratt, chairman of the trustees, declined to get […]
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Maine Medical Center seeks to open retail pharmacy
MaineHealth is seeking to open retail pharmacies at Maine Medical Center in Portland and Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast. The pharmacies would be on the grounds of each hospital, but would operate as retail businesses and be open to any consumers, not just hospital patients. The health care system’s plans were revealed in two […]