The $7 million project at 170 Fore St. is the third project of four proposals for a block that only a few years ago was largely undeveloped.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Efforts by Portland, state navigate path out of chronic homelessness
The so-called ‘housing first’ approach creates stability and takes pressure off shelters, but so far, the suburbs aren’t buying into it.
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What is ‘housing first’?
‘We really feel housing is itself therapeutic,’ says Preble Street’s Hillary Colcord, the director of Huston Commons.
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Search narrows as Portland rules out site near county jail for new homeless shelter
A City Council committee is asking the council to choose between a vacant lot on Commercial Street and land on Riverside Street.
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Maine gets federal support to help homeless
Maine agencies will receive help for the homeless and those with mental health and substance use disorders.
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Portland activists look to create a local clean elections program
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections and the League of Women Voters of Maine also want to ask Portland voters to extend ranked-choice voting to City Council and Portland Board of Public Education races.
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Maine tribe to receive federal grant to support crime victims
The Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Tribe will receive nearly $330,000 in federal funding to expand existing services for victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, dating violence, sex trafficking, stalking and elder abuse.
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Body of missing man recovered from ocean off Acadia National Park
Maine Marine Patrol pulled the body of Adam Emmett, 45, from the water near Thunder Hole at around noon Thursday.
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Low-income housing with waterfront views in Portland sold to investment firm
The existing 140 units at Munjoy South must remain available for low-income renters until 2042, but any new development could be market-rate.
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Paddleboats, zipline could be new additions to Portland’s Deering Oaks Park
A life-sized, bronze statue of the great black hawk that took up residence in the park over the winter is one of several possible new features.