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Portland city leaders are expected to decide the future of a nearly 200-year-old building after the Portland Museum of Art made a request to knock it down.

Historic preservationists are fighting to save the old Children's Museum at 142 Free Street.

More than 50 people spoke on both sides of the issue at a meeting Monday to decide whether the Portland Museum of Art can raze the former Children's Museum as part of its expansion plans.

Expansion and revitalization is what the museum – and Congress Square – needs. On Monday, the City Council has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to OK that.

I would encourage the city of Portland to approve the Portland Museum of Art’s proposal for its addition, including the demolition of the former Chamber of Commerce building. I love historic architecture. I spent childhood summers in a John Calvin Stevens cottage. But I also worked for architects for 40 years and I understand that […]

I am writing in defense of the Portland Museum of Art expansion plan. As a trustee, I have witnessed the extensive due diligence performed by the museum to reach this point. Thorough feasibility studies and many months of research and input from a broad spectrum of the Portland community have helped us understand how best […]

Portland Museum of Art led a downtown renaissance 50 years ago. Its expansion will keep the momentum going.

On May 6, the City Council will take up the question of whether the former Children's Museum at 142 Free St. can be demolished. Working toward an ambitious expansion, the PMA hasn't said what it will do if the structure can't be torn down.

The suggestion that a large expansion will lift the PMA out of a pattern of financial underperformance is not to be trusted.

ORLEANS- The Dogwood Festival in Orleans is a full nine days of fun and celebration of the Town of Orleans. The schedule of events has been released, and there is no shortage of entertaining options to choose from: Friday, April 19All Day Town-Wide Yard Sale Saturday, April 20All Day Town-Wide Y ...