South Portland council fills 2 school board vacancies
Appointed representatives of Districts 2 and 4 will serve the unexpired terms of board members who resigned in March.
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Appointed representatives of Districts 2 and 4 will serve the unexpired terms of board members who resigned in March.
City Manager Scott Morelli recommended imposing conditions aimed at reducing the number of emergency calls to the hotels, which have housed hundreds of asylum seekers and homeless Mainers during the pandemic.
The review comes as neighboring Portland continues to see high levels of need for emergency housing.
Deqa Dhalac, the first Somali-American mayor in the U.S., will be the featured speaker at Southern Maine Community College’s 75th commencement. Dhalac fled Somalia as a young woman in 1990 with her homeland on the precipice of war, making her way from Europe to Canada to the United States and, eventually, to Maine in 2005. […]
Deqa Dhalac is not your typical Somali refugee. Having fled prior to Somalia’s devastating civil war, she became America’s first Somali-American mayor.