Ed covers the City of Westbrook and business stories for the Portland Press Herald.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2012
Portland, Sanford schools land large grants
In Portland, a $5.1 million grant will go to the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program. Sanford will use its $3.1 million grant to create approaches that engage students more fully.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2012
Three arrested in Saco after standoff
Two men and a woman were arrested after a five-hour standoff late Monday night into early this morning, Saco police said.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2012
Rescued Maine hiker says White Mountains are out
A Buxton man’s preparations are undone by a broken snowshoe and fickle weather.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2012
State treasurer responds to ethics panel
Poliquin said he found a financial-disclosure form “confusing” and fixed it Friday. But he still faces multiple other ethics questions relating to his beach club and property taxes.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2012
Steeple repairs to make history
The 186-year-old structure atop First Parish Church, which includes the country’s oldest Willard tower clock, is being refurbished to match its original design.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2012
Have you seen this bird?
A carved wooden phoenix from the 1860s, “a local treasure” that symbolized Portland’s resilience, has gone missing.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2012
Portland man sentenced to 32 years in ‘brutal killing’
Mitigating factors in Shawn Garland’s case – his mental illness and his guilty plea – are not enough to offset the brutality of his attack on another Portland man, the judge says.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2012
Man gets 32 years in stabbing death, dismemberment
Shawn Garland is sentenced for killing Richard Meyers by stabbing him 97 times and then trying to dismember the body.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2012
U.S. castoffs to aid Tanzanians’ health
Scarborough’s Partners for World Health will send volunteers carrying unused but rejected supplies.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012
Feature Obituary: Eleanor Merrill, 95, former Lincoln Junior High teacher
PORTLAND – Annie Merrill remembers that as a teenager, she dreaded shopping trips with her mother, Eleanor Merrill. It wasn’t because of the normal friction between most mothers and their teenage daughters — it was the other people they would encounter. “You’d be walking down Congress Street and through Porteous, Mitchell and Braun (department store) and […]
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