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Two city boards had recommended that Portland keep a historic designation for the former Children's Museum on Free Street. The Portland Museum of Art owns the building and wants to demolish it to make room for a proposed expansion.
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As the first destination on their 2024 Hurricane Awareness Tour, NOAA hosted an educational event at the Portland Jetport on Monday to tell Mainers about the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season in June.
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According to the Oxford County Sheriff's Office, the shooting took place at around noon today on Route 117 in South Paris.
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The Attorney General's office said it has collected $650,000 owed to a project that aims to improve the quality of Long Creek in southern Maine.
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The project will provide housing and 24-7 support services to residents, who have experienced chronic homelessness, or have struggled to stay in stable housing before.
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Amber Lavigne alleged that the district violated her right to "control and direct" the upbringing of her child when school staff used the child's preferred name and pronouns, and provided chest binders, without first informing her.
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Student at the College of the Atlantic are demanding the school divest from companies profiting from the conflict, and issuing a public stance against the actions of the Israeli government. In Brunswick, students at Bowdoin College vote this week on whether the college should take action to condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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The airport says that it will fully close its runways from 8 a.m. Monday until 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Similar weekly closures will continue for the next two weeks, with no air service available during each shutdown.
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Just-In-Time Recreation reopened on Friday for the first time since the mass shootings on Oct. 25, 2023 that killed 18 people. Eight people were killed at the bowling alley.
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Federal prosecutors said they are investigating possible connections to organized crime, but said there's no evidence that illegal immigration or human trafficking are connected to the operations.