Portland Press Herald News Stories

Advocates are rallying to restore diagnostic services after the closure of MaineGeneral Health's Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center.

Married women throughout Maine are experiencing the bulk of the inconvenience in this transition.

Shame on Maine for its treatment of young adults. I moved my 17-year-old daughter here from Washington to get her away from gangs, drugs and trauma. At 18, she got an apartment and a summons. Four 18-21 year-olds had a four-pack of hard lemonade. Video footage shows police entering her apartment without permission. The court […]

How will we explain to our grandchildren that for 19 months we watched the world’s first livestreamed genocide? We saw the causalities mount, hospitals bombed, homes and apartments leveled, children’s limbs torn apart, entire families massacred, journalists gunned down and doctors abducted and tortured. Atrocity after atrocity and we did nothing. While some took to […]

An educational performance on the importance of seagrass was held at Meetinghouse Arts last week. The production combined science, history and storytelling through the lenses of Indigenous and Western perspectives.

The Rockland Public Library and Millay House Rockland will host “Conversations of the Century with the Trans Poetics Archive” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 5, in the Community Room at Rockland Public Library. This event is free and open to all. In a heart-to-heart with Edna St. Vincent Millay and her suffrage poem, “I, being […]

The Deering Center Memorial Day Procession and Commemoration was held for its 12th year and drew a few hundred people.

The grand opening event next week will unveil the new Longfellow Playground, designed for increased safety and accessibility.

One of the great legends in New England history rose from modest beginnings on Maine’s Midcoast. He became the first man knighted in the North American Colonies, the first royal governor of Massachusetts and he ended the most notorious mass hysteria in American history. William Green Phips was born at Nequasset in present-day Woolwich on […]

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