‘Bleak picture’ faces Portland schools in $4 million shortfall

The 2011-12 budget will likely be lower than this year’s, but cuts in federal funding are expected.

Maine students perform well on national science test

Maine’s fourth-graders place fifth and eighth-graders place eighth on science portion of National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Hearing tonight kicks off school budget season

The Portland school board meeting starts at 7 tonight in King Middle School cafeteria.

Old-school folk prepare for new-school move

Everyone’s psyched about the Ocean Avenue school, principal says

Historic shipyard’s last building coming down

Work crews dismantle the bones of the last of South Portland’s mammoth shipyard, where 244 Liberty ships were built during World War II.

UMaine president job down to four finalists

A search committee has picked four finalists for president of the University of Maine, UMaine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude announced Tuesday. The one chosen to be the 19th president of the system’s flagship university in Orono will succeed Robert Kennedy, who plans to step down in June. The finalists are: • Donald J. Farish, Ph.D., […]

Here, crime pays … as a teaching tool

PORTLAND — One could almost hear the heart-thumping strains of The Who as students filed into the mock crime scene on the fourth floor of Deering High School on Tuesday. Details of the case could have been “ripped from the headlines” or featured in the latest episode of “CSI.” It was the first day of […]

Four finalists named for UMaine presidency

The current president, Robert Kennedy, plans to step down in June.

Stephen Colbert notes LePage remarks

Gov. Paul LePage’s recent controversial remarks about the NAACP were featured on The Colbert Report on Monday night. Stephen Colbert, host of the satirical late-night news program on Comedy Central, opened the show with a riff on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Colbert noted that the holiday is still “marred by controversy” and that Maine’s […]

Maine pays tributeto Martin Luther King Jr.

PORTLAND — They marched down Congress Street, shouting in unison, “This is what democracy looks like,” and carrying signs with slogans such as “Enraged by LePage” and “Civility Not Division.”

About 500 people braved the cold Monday afternoon to join a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and rally for justice on the steps of City Hall. The long-planned event was fueled by recent controversial statements from newly inaugurated Gov. Paul LePage.

Several community and church leaders delivered impassioned speeches to the gathering, including City Councilor Dory Waxman, who shared some of her father-in-law’s advice.