Battery Steele Brewing and Brickyard Hollow Brewing Co. are the latest beer makers to add new restaurants or taprooms.
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Posted inHealth, Maine
3 years later, the pandemic cocoon is giving way to social butterflies
Long after Maine’s first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.
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Posted inMaine, New England, News, Religion and Values
$3 million in federal funds will help preserve Maine Irish Heritage Center’s history
The center inside the old St. Dominic’s church building in Portland’s West End, a key piece of the area’s rich Irish identity, will get long-needed updates to the roof and brickwork.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Sen. Collins asks Biden administration to slow the flow of asylum seekers to Maine
Collins is calling on the Department of Homeland Security to stop sending asylum seekers to Maine without first verifying a community’s capacity to help.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Some high schools embrace later start times as Legislature considers statewide mandate
A bill by Sen. Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick, would mandate an 8:30 a.m. start time for high schools.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine craft brewers ‘own the backyard’ – but beer-making business is on a new playing field
Maintaining market dominance will require adapting to new consumer tastes, a beverage industry expert told brewers at a conference in Portland.
Posted inMaine, News, Religion and Values
Six new lawsuits against Maine diocese say priest continued to abuse girls after changing parishes
The civil complaints filed Wednesday all allege that the Rev. Lawrence Sabatino abused the plaintiffs, who were 5 to 11 years old at the time, in Lewiston and Portland from 1958 to 1967.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Former Portland ed tech could receive 15 to 30 years for abusing 6-year-old student
Benjamin Conroy’s defense attorneys are requesting he serve 18 years, while prosecutors are pushing for 25 after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an autistic student.
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One Longfellow Square celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with double bill concert
Traditional Irish music group Fódhla, along with Mia Bertelli with Benjamin Foss, will join forces to ring in Saint Patrick’s Day at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 17, at One Longfellow Square in Portland. Fiddles, flute, guitars, whistles, bouzouki, and voice will keep your toes tapping through rollicking jigs and reels, timeless ballads, and buoyant […]
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Portland Symphony Orchestra presents Ravel’s Boléro and two POPS! performances of Louis Armstrong & Friends
The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents perennial favorite Ravel’s Boléro as part of the Sunday Classical Concert series at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 12 at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. The concert will be conducted by guest conductor Nir Kabaretti, with guest violinist Gilles Apap. The program includes Sheriff’s Akeda, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in […]