The city and social service organizations are struggling to help dozens of individuals sleeping outside who can’t or won’t stay in a shelter, but the mayor says Portland can only do so much.
Grace Benninghoff
Staff Writer
Grace covers city hall and Greater Portland for the Press Herald. She previously covered reproductive health for Texas Monthly and served as the local host of All Things Considered at Vermont Public. Before moving to Maine, Grace attended Columbia Journalism School in New York City and spent many years in Colorado and Oregon working in the non-profit sector. When she isn't reporting you can find her trail-running with her dog Loma, practicing her Spanish, surfing, or making pottery.
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More than 100 rabbis call for Portland boycott
Over 2 months after the Portland City Council voted to divest from companies doing business in Israel, a group of Jewish leaders from across the United States bought an ad encouraging people to boycott the city.
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Posted inElection 2024, Local & State
80% of Portland voters didn’t want Trump. Now many are scared, grieving and disgusted
The heavily Democratic city overwhelmingly supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, a stark difference from the national picture and elsewhere in Maine. On Wednesday, many Portlanders felt a sense of grief for the country.
Posted inLocal & State, News
How one Lewiston family commemorated the mass shooting anniversary
The Strouts gathered on Oct. 25 to remember their husband, son, father and brother, Arthur ‘Artie’ Strout one year after he was killed.
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‘Get to know who you’ll spend eternity with’: A small cemetery in Maine has an unusual tradition
Anyone who owns a plot in Weld’s Mountain View Cemetery is invited to gather each August to get to know the people they’ll be buried beside.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Life After Artie: Lewiston shooting victim’s father finds purpose in gun reform
Before his son was killed in the massacre last fall, Arthur Barnard hadn’t voted in decades, flown on a plane or met with U.S. senators. All of that has changed.
Posted inLocal & State
Breaching whale slams into power boat, flipping it off Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Two fishermen were rescued by two Maine brothers who were boating nearby and shot video of the incident Tuesday.
Posted inLocal & State
Teen dies when car hits moose in Millinocket
State police say Landon Gardner, 17, died Tuesday in a collision that sent his car off the road and into trees on Poplar Street in T3 Indian Purchase.
Posted inFeature Obituary, Local & State
Former UMaine astronomer remembered for unpacking the mysterious universe
George Ayers taught Mainers about the wonders of the celestial world for decades at UMaine and in his monthly column ‘What’s Up.’ He died at home in Gorham on May 10 at age 96.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News, Politics
Mills vetoes bill requiring developers of clean energy projects to work with unions
The bill would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to enter into contract with labor unions.