The biggest jump is among out-of-state students, many of them from Massachusetts.
Dennis Hoey
Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.
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Movie scenes for ‘The Witch Files’ to be shot Monday at Miss Portland Diner
The film crew will begin setting up around 2:30 p.m. at the restaurant on Marginal Way and filming will last through the evening.
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Family of missing Maine Maritime student from Westbrook says he drowned
David Breunig’s parents say their son’s body was found Friday in the Penobscot River, and his mother says, ‘We can finally bring him home.’
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State seeks input on plan to replace Brunswick-Topsham Bridge
A public meeting is scheduled on the Maine Department of Transportation’s recommendation to replace, rather than rehabilitate, the 85-year-old Frank J. Wood Bridge.
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Man who shot himself with flare gun is husband of writer Monica Wood
Police confirm that Daniel Abbott is married to the well-known Maine author.
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Lake Region Middle School teacher dies in crash on Route 302 in Casco
Adam Perron, 29, is killed and another man is injured when a car and a box truck collide on the stretch between State Park and Tenney Hill roads.
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Joanne Twomey may skip LePage’s town hall forum in Biddeford
The former mayor who made headlines with a jar of Vaseline at last year’s forum in Saco is now a state Senate candidate and says her advisors have cautioned her against going to Tuesday’s event.
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Effort to find El Faro’s data recorder to resume Monday
The container ship sank Oct. 1 with 33 crew members on board, four of them Maine residents.
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New housing coalition calls for halt to no-cause evictions in Portland
At an ’emergency’ session, advocates for the city’s most vulnerable residents air a list of demands meant to provide safeguards during the housing crunch.
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Maine lawmakers to honor couple who rescued mother, children from pond
Leonard and Rosemary Wallace of Steuben, who saved the family after the mother drove into Fox Pond, will be recognized with a ‘legislative sentiment.’