Urban RAID: This Summer Portland Will Host a Unique 5K Fitness Challenge
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Through the years, Portland has bestowed many gifts upon the world. Longfellow. 
Living In Portland
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Growing Season: Food + Farms and the Fermentory that is Portland
/ A mild winter and warm spring means that the city's fruit trees are blossoming, and the farmers on the outskirts of the city have been hard at work preparing seedlings in their greenhouses. In two more weekends, the indoor farmers' market will close for the season.
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Glide Through the Mind of the City: Bike Portland, Maine
/ Bicycling is the best way I know of to explore a city. I've lived in Portland for over five years now, and I still manage to notice new things almost every time I ride down Congress Street.
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Q&A With Kara Wooldrik and Portland Trails: Connecting Portlanders With Urban Wilderness
/ Since its founding in 1991, Portland Trails has become one of the city's most visible and productive nonprofit organizations. With a small staff, a shoestring budget from membership dues and community fundraisers, and lots of volunteer effort, the nonprofit has built a 50-mile network of trails and open space connections throughout Portland and its surrounding communities, connecting neighborhoods with prized parks and wildlands.
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Maine Roller Derby Season is Warming Up at Happy Wheels Before Invading the Portland Expo
/ Lil Punisher. Princess Layher Out.
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Portland's Architects: The Bounty of the Built Environment
/ Happy is the city with great architecture. In Portland, that happy list includes the brick edifices along Commercial Street, the varied homes of the West End, the Wishcamper and Abromson buildings at USM, the Observatory, the Victorian houses perched in Deering Highlands, the Art Museum – an embarrassment of riches.
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Ski Portland!
/ Admittedly, it hasn't been much of a winter here, or anywhere else in North America. But Portland, Maine does occupy the northern latitudes, which means that we get snowstorms, even in a globally-heated world.
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The Abyssinian Meetinghouse and Portland's African-American History
/ Maine may have the dubious distinction of being the least racially diverse state in the nation, but that factoid obscures the real diversity to be found in Maine communities like Portland, and does a disservice to the very real contributions that minorities have made to our city and state. As a seaport, Portland has attracted international immigration for centuries.