Preble Street

The year’s good news ran the gamut — from mentoring teens in lobstering to combating food insecurity.

The new Food Security Hub in South Portland will allow the nonprofit to increase the number of meals it prepares from 2,000 per day to 10,000.

Heating and home repairs, emergency shelters, affordable housing construction and installation of safety features for low-income individuals were among projects awarded.

Storefront vacancies in the Congress Street corridor reflect the economic costs of the city's homeless problems, but some new businesses are also moving in.

Hope House, operated by Penobscot Community Health Center, had been on the verge of closing. With help from recently approved state funding, Preble Street will begin running the shelter in February.

The Veterans Housing Services program has over 250 landlord partners, who play a key role. In recent months, the program has housed about one veteran each day.

A conference hosted by Preble Street gathered speakers who outlined strategies that might be applied in Maine.  

A roundup of Maine construction news includes three coffee shops for South Portland-based Aroma Joe’s, support for Preble Street's Housing First programs, and other developments around the state.

The money will help the nonprofit support the state’s plan to end chronic homelessness through the creation of 400 new Housing First units across Maine.

More than 6,000 amateur and professional athletes participated in the 26th edition of the annual charity event founded in 1998 by Cape Elizabeth native and Olympic champion Joan Benoit Samuelson.