Officials are still moving ahead with the Coastal Connection pilot extending service from Brunswick to Rockland, but the sale of the Central Maine and Quebec Railway has delayed the project yet again.
2020
Broadway musical ‘The Wiz’ to be performed Feb. 6-8
For tickets, visit Gardiner Area High School’s Little Theater, email or call.
Pennsylvania groundhog declares early spring ‘a certainty’
In reality, Phil’s prediction is decided ahead of time by the group on Gobbler’s Knob, a tiny hill just outside Punxsutawney.
Our View: Maine should stop using youth prison for ‘care’
It’s time for lawmakers to respond to wasteful and ineffective spending on youth incarceration.
See Portland from All Sides at Verdante
99 Franklin St., Unit 308, Portland
On this date in Maine history: Feb. 2
Feb. 2, 1915: Werner Horn, a German army lieutenant carrying out a sabotage mission on behalf of German officials in New York, plants a bomb on the Canadian side of an international railway bridge linking Vanceboro, Maine, and the village of St. Croix, New Brunswick. Canada was fighting Germany in World War I at the […]
Greg Kesich: Portland should follow Waterville’s model
There’s reason for enthusiasm about a new research institute in Portland, but it shouldn’t try to be the next San Jose.
Do-it-yourself music makers dare to dream
In their own bedrooms and basements, inspired young songwriters in Maine have access to the high-tech tools and distribution outlets to blossom on their own terms.