Beautiful prints of FoEP’s East End watercolor are now available just in time for Holiday giving! The 18×24 watercolor by Portland artist C. Michael Lewis are printed on premium acid free recycled paper with fade resistant ink. They have been treated with a satin aqueous coating to preserve and keep them from fingerprinting. This[...]

Each Thursday of this summer, people drove, walked, biked, and skipped from every corner of Portland and throughout Maine to attend the free Fort Allen Summer Concert Series on the Prom and enjoy the delicious offerings of Hella Good Tacos (SO good!).  More than 400 people attended each week with[...]

Follow the link below to see the video clip on WCSH6 which gives details on the public hearing on September 11.  Residents of Munjoy Hill expressed their praises and concerns, creating an environment for constructive feedback to the city.  The prevalent question addressed the fact that this festival was successful,[...]

Missed out on tickets to the Mumford & Sons concert? You’ve got another crack at ‘em. The State Theatre has released a block of tickets for this summer’s music festival on the Eastern Prom. The newly released tickets, priced at $69, will be available from 10 am to 6 pm today[...]

Have you been thinking about joining Friends of the Eastern Promenade, but just haven’t gotten around to it? Join now for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Aug. 4 Mumford & Sons concert on the Eastern Prom! New FoEP memberships received between now and Friday, July 27,[...]

Our Fort Allen Park Summer Concert Series kicks of next Thursday with the Randy Oxford Band, all the way from Portland, Oregon. We’ll be treated to their rhythmy blues as they make their way to the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland on July 14. This year’s free concerts, held on eight[...]

In case you haven’t heard the news, the hot British folk rock band Mumford & Sons will be headlining a daylong music festival on the Eastern Promenade on Saturday, Aug. 4. The band chose Portland as one of a limited number of sites for its U.S. “Gentlemen of the Road” tour. All 12,500[...]

If you walk along the top of Cutter Street, you may have noticed the old-fashioned trash can has been replaced by a hi-tech dream trash machine. A Big Belly solar compactor, complete with GPS technology and email indicators, is becoming one of the city’s savvy new waste management systems. Units can[...]

Update: The Historic Preservation Board has rescheduled the final public hearing on the Fort Allen Park Rehabilitation Project to 7 pm Wednesday, April 25. The meeting was originally scheduled for April 18, but was changed due to a lack of a quorum for that date. The revised concept plan (right)[...]