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Maine city looks for housing options before likely clearing homeless encampment
BIDDEFORD, Maine — City officials in Biddeford estimate the homeless population there is about 60 people. Most are living in a homeless encampment that sprouted up nine months ago at Mechanics Park on the banks of the Saco River. The people who are staying there are about to learn...
State hopes new resources will help ease Maine housing crisis
PORTLAND (WGME) – The push for new housing in Maine continues, as housing groups and developers are chipping away at the state’s desperate shortage of available and affordable housing. Avesta Housing celebrated the opening of an affordable development in Portland Thursday. Porter Station on Valley Street is a...
Portland man pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, identity theft
PORTLAND, Maine — A Portland man pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Portland court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Court records show 22-year-old Paul Logugune and a coconspirator broke into unattended vehicles to steal purses and wallets between May and June 2022, the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine said in a release.
Reflecting on Portland's rollercoaster weather in April, looking forward to a warm May
PORTLAND (WGME) -- From the largest snowstorm of the season, to the total solar eclipse, and then finishing with the first 70 degree day, April brought some surprises. Now that May has begun, warmer temperatures and later sunsets are on the rise!. It's time to look back on April. Close...
'Stephen King's Maine': New book is a fan's guide to the people, haunts behind the novels
Greetings! Welcome to Friday, May, and all things spring! And, of course, to the latest dispatch from your Coast Star Connection. This week I have a trio of stories for you, the first of which will delight you if you're a fan of the man who gave us Cujo and Pennywise the Clown . . .
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