Children browse through free books before the start of a potluck supper at the South Portland Parks and Recreation Redbank Gym.
South Portland has spent $4.5 million over the last three years on infrastructure improvements in Thornton Heights, including a Main Street reconstruction project with wider sidewalks, safer pedestrian crossings, bicycle lanes, decorative lighting and landscaped medians.
Chris Chris Gorman, director of resident leadership at The Opportunity Alliance, talks to the crowd before the start of a potluck supper at the South Portland Parks and Recreation Redbank Gym.
In the Brickhill section of South Portland, workers put sheathing on a roof of a building that is part of a development project for 118 market-rate apartments. The two buildings in the foreground are also part of the development and are close to completion.
Quang Nguyen, 28, a Vietnamese immigrant, Southern Maine Community College graduate, and business owner, helps a customer at Le Variety in South Portland.
Lilian Vitale holds her 10-month-old son Edward during a neighborhood play group.
Sable Lodge, a 55-plus, 130-unit luxury apartment is under construction near the Maine Mall in South Portland.
Lilian Vitale's 2-year-old daughter Isabel listens during a neighborhood play group sponsored by the South Portland West End Neighborhood Association neighborhoods.
Chesney Young, 3, moves down the serving line during a potluck supper at the South Portland Parks and Recreation Redbank Gym.
Lilian Vitale leads a neighborhood play group.
Thornton Heights, a residential neighborhood near Rigby Yard that attracted railroad workers in the 1900s, has been the focus of recent infrastructure improvements, including new landscaping and lighting on Main Street.
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