Grace Benninghoff
City Hall Reporter at The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
covering city hall for @pressherald previously @texasmonthly @npr @vtdigger @columbiajourn
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Grace Benninghoff
Jun. 13—The Portland City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday to lease space at an underutilized Barron Center building for a child care center at a time when such care is in short supply. City staff came up with the idea and will present a detailed proposal at the council's Housing and Economic Development Committee meeting, and the panel will take public comment. If the committee advances the proposal, it will go to the full council.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Grace Benninghoff
Jun. 13—Tom Landry's phone started ringing a couple of weeks ago. The developer and realtor said he fielded call after call from clients who had just received their revaluations from the city of Portland and were stunned by how high their home values had climbed. Landry said, on average, his clients have reported their home values going up by about 40%. "People are saying they feel they aren't going to be able to stay here and will have to sell," he said.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Grace Benninghoff
Jun. 10—Mayor Mark Dion slammed his gavel down during the Portland City Council's workshop on rent control Monday night, but the meeting wasn't over — he was calling it to order amid a heated exchange between city officials about enforcement efforts. Councilor Wes Pelletier and the city's director of permitting and inspections, Jessica Hanscombe, clashed over whether staff has effectively enforced the city's rent control ordinance.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Grace Benninghoff
Jun. 6—The city of Portland broke ground on the construction of a new Kiwanis Pool on Thursday. Replacing the 60-year-old pool, the new facility will include a splash pad, waterslides, a lawn area, ADA accessible pool entry and lap lanes. The new pool will accommodate up to 400 swimmers at a time, about four times its previous capacity, according to a press release from the city. The updates to the Kiwanis pool, which first opened in 1961, have been in the works since 2019.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Grace Benninghoff
May 26—At about 2:30 p.m. on Monday, a man's voice rang out through Evergreen Cemetery. "Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, every one," he sang, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar as he crooned Peter Paul and Mary's "Where Have all the Flowers Gone."A group of children dressed in white traipsed through the cemetery with flowers in their arms, which they laid on the graves of fallen soldiers.
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