Secret Santa: John Scott might haul trash. But around Portland, he’s known as the man in red.
Runner: A Lewiston boy says that a man in a green jacket threw an unknown substance in his eyes. Police in Cumberland launch an investigation.
10/21 at 4:44 p.m. Police turned two teenage girls in pink sweatpants and sunglasses over to their parents after the two egged a Willow Lane mailbox because they liked the boy who lived there.
Island farmer: Second Wind Farm bucks a seemingly irreversible trend. It’s a subdivision becoming a farm. From Chebeague Island, this is Chuck Varney’s story.
East Bayside: A group hopes to sweeten Peppermint Park, an overlooked park in an overlooked neighborhood. It’s not the first time.
Teen mom: Being a teen mother is one thing. Being a teen mother and graduating from high school is another. One story from Portland High School.
The forecaster: Art Lester is a veteran meteorologist. He talks about the increasing use of computer technology, which seems to have little effect on the accuracy of predictions.
Snowmobilers: As land is subdivided and residents move into new homes, multi-use trails maintained by the Moonlite Sno-Skimmers are increasingly in jeopardy.
Woodworkers: Following a fire that I covered, my editor told me to go out to Stone’s Cafe. This is how a spot news story turned into a feature about a weekly gathering of the woodworkers’ lunch bunch.
Late Friday morning, Dr. Fried drove to his South Portland office: Ruth Traynor’s house. She is dying and he was there to help.
William Hawkinson wants a noise ordinance to control his neighbor’s music. Adam Szafran, an Iraq veteran, hosts loud parties at his house. The town council hears one side; Szafran and police give the other side.
Tree-planting: A couple hundred Mormans and some trees. That’s the Youth Conservation Corps in action.
East Bayside: A group hopes to sweeten Peppermint Park, an overlooked park in an overlooked neighborhood. It’s not the first time
Teen mom: Being a teen mother is one thing. Being a teen mother and graduating from high school is another. One story from Portland High School
The forecaster: Art Lester is a veteran meteorologist. He talks about the increasing use of computer technology, which seems to have little effect on the accuracy of predictions.
Snowmobilers: As land is subdivided and residents move into new homes, multi-use trails maintained by the Moonlite Sno-Skimmers are increasingly in jeopardy
Tree-planting: A couple hundred Mormans and some trees. That’s the Youth Conservation Corps in action