Area town officials are encouraging their residents to give to the Lac-Megantic Relief Fund, which was started by the Canadian town’s partner community, Farmington, in the wake of the July 6 train disaster in Lac-Megantic.

BY MATT BYRNE Portland Press Herald The debate about whether Canadian tar sands oil ever will flow through South Portland has just gotten stickier. While anti-tar-sands activists and residents say a proposed city ordinance is tailored narrowly to squelch the possibility of Portland Pipe Line Corp. ever using its 236-mile underground pipeline to bring the […]

The charges were simple enough: willfully damaging federal property, creating a hazard on federal property and creating a nuisance on federal property. The maximum punishment was just seven days in jail.

PORTLAND — Eric Gwaro, the Scarborough firefighter accused of attempted murder in the beating of a woman last summer, is scheduled to take the stand in his own defense today.

SCARBOROUGH — Scarborough Town Council Chairman Ronald Ahlquist thinks dogs should be leashed on town beaches — in part to protect nesting birds — and he wants the council to discuss clearer and stronger ordinances at an upcoming meeting.

Area town officials are encouraging their residents to give to the Lac-Megantic Relief Fund, which was started by the Canadian town’s partner community, Farmington, in the wake of the July 6 train disaster in Lac-Megantic.

The debate about whether so-called Canadian tar sands oil ever will flow through South Portland has just gotten stickier.