SOUTH PORTLAND — City officials are scrutinizing a proposal by Central Maine Power Co. to expand a transmission substation on the Fore River — near the Knightville neighborhood and the Casco Bay Bridge — that has sparked concerns about potential public health, environmental and visual impacts. The company has provided few details so far about the project, […]
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South Portland mom gets another chance to find love on ‘Bachelor in Paradise’
Chelsea Roy’s quest for love on national TV didn’t go so well last winter, so she’s trying again. The South Portland woman failed to end up with a boyfriend or husband after being on six episodes of ABC’s “The Bachelor” in January and February. But starting Aug. 7 she’ll be one of about 20 contestants on the […]
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Man dies after jumping from Casco Bay Bridge
SOUTH PORTLAND — A man died shortly after noon Friday after he leapt from the Casco Bay Bridge onto the rocks at the end of Thomas Knight Park. South Portland Police Chief Edward Googins said no foul play is suspected in the death. He said police received reports of a man on the railing of […]
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Trial to start on South Portland's ban on oil exports
The trial is finally set to start Monday in the Portland Pipe Line Corp.’s federal lawsuit challenging South Portland’s 2014 ban on shipping crude oil from the city’s waterfront, including controversial tar sands oil produced in western Canada. After more than three years of preliminary court filings, hearings and orders, U.S. District Court Judge John […]
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Report confirms that Maine’s rental market among nation’s least affordable
Maine’s rental market is among the least affordable in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday that places it alongside high-housing-cost states such as California, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii. The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual report showed the gap between an average renter’s wage and the wage needed to comfortably afford a […]
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Police: South Portland man set fire to kitchen to get roommate to move
SOUTH PORTLAND — A Ferry Village man was jailed on an arson charge Sunday night after roommate troubles flared into a potentially life-threatening incident. James R. Griffin, 52, of 24 Edmund S. Muskie Street, was arrested after police and firefighters were called to investigate a report of a kitchen fire at his home around 8:20 […]
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Lawsuit threatened as South Portland council acts to close 2 motels
SOUTH PORTLAND — The lawyer for two low-budget motels on Route 1 promised to file a lawsuit as the City Council took the final step Tuesday to put them out of business on June 1. The council decided May 15 not to renew lodging establishment licenses for The Knights Inn and the Maine Motel because […]
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Maine man learns truth of his past: Nuns stole him as a baby from his mother in Ireland
Kevin Battle was a baby when church officials raided his family home in Ireland and plucked him from the arms of his mother, an unmarried 24-year-old who had run away from the convent where she and hundreds of other Irish girls were sent to give birth to secret children. After raising the boy she named […]
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Girls’ lacrosse: Saints march all over Red Riots
South Portland High School’s Kaya Backman (12) and St. Dominic Academy’s Payton Winslow (16) battle for a loose ball during their lacrosse match in Auburn on Saturday. Also in on the play are St. Dom’s Caroline Gastonguay (3) and South Portland’s Amelia Papplardo (26). (Justin Pelletier/Sun Journal) AUBURN — Emma Theriault and Mia-Angelina Leslie were […]
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Teen challenging incarceration at Long Creek
A teenager from Skowhegan being held at Long Creek Youth Development Center is asking the state’s highest court to overturn his nearly 18-month commitment there in a case that also challenges a basic premise in state law – that youth jail is an appropriate setting to rehabilitate youths accused of minor crimes. The teenager, referred […]