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Kimberly Watkins Stevens and her attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, said the Maine diocese didn't ask them to participate in a process that resolved more than 10...
Oct 31, 2026Open source
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Portland, Maine. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Cumberland. Associated ZIP codes: 04101, 04102, 04103, 04104, 04109, 04112, 04122, 04123, 04124.
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AIPAC is Susan Collins' top campaign donor by a significant margin.
Oct 31, 2026Open source
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Educators say the additional time outside is making students more focused, enabling them to retain more information and perform better in class.
Oct 30, 2026Open source
Maine journalist named head of MaineCF news initiative
Press Forward Maine, an initiative of the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF), announced that Eric Russell, a former news editor at the Portland Press Heral...
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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Maine is building a wildlife crossing beneath Route 1 in Caribou, with work expected to finish in 2027.
Oct 29, 2026Open source
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Experts say the lack of healthcare infrastructure in Maine that could help Richard Day heal speaks to a serious issue in the state.
Oct 29, 2026Open source
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'The driver has been identified and the issue has been resolved,' a Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson said Tuesday.
Oct 28, 2026Open source
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Maine farmers harvested more than $250 million in potato crops in 2025, federal data shows.
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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Andrew Ward agreed to surrender his certification as a Maine law enforcement officer during a plea hearing Monday.
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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The Republican gubernatorial candidate had accepted more than $45,000 in campaign donations that exceeded the $2,075-per-donor limit.
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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Antonio Venuto and Max Andreev a goal and an assist for Maine, which took 2 out of 3 from Worcester to open the season.
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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Some suggested new thrillers and horror stories by Maine authors that might be best read in the daylight, unless you like losing sleep.
Oct 26, 2026Open source
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Portland is in Cumberland County, Maine.
Region: Maine
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04101, 04102, 04103, 04104, 04109, 04112, 04122, 04123, 04124
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The Eastern Abenaki called the Portland peninsula Machigonne, "great neck." The first European settler was Christopher Levett, an English naval captain granted 6,000 acres in 1623 to found a settlement on Casco Bay. He built a stone house, left ten men there and returned to England to write about his voyage, but the settlement failed, and his colonists' fate is unknown. Fort Levett in the harbor is named for him.
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The peninsula was settled in 1632 as a fishing and trading village called Casco, renamed Falmouth when Massachusetts took over Casco Bay in 1658. The Abenaki destroyed the village in 1676, during King Philip's War. It was rebuilt, and in King William's War a French and Native raiding party largely destroyed it again in the Battle of Fort Loyal in 1690. On October 18, 1775, the Royal Navy under Captain Henry Mowat burned Falmouth. After the Revolution, the section called the Neck grew rapidly as a shipping port. In 1786 its residents formed a separate town and named it Portland, after the Isle of Portland off Dorset, England, from the Old English for "land surrounding a harbor." The Embargo Act of 1807, which cut off trade with Britain, put heavy strain on the port's economy. Sources Wikipedia: Portland, Maine
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43.6605640, -70.2588640
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