New Hires, Promotions and Appointments Mary Allen Lindemann, co-owner of Portland-based Coffee By Design, has been named to the board of directors of Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation. Lindemann, of Portland, founded Coffee By Design with her husband in 1994, and today the company operates four coffeehouses and a roastery in the city. The MainStreet Foundation, a […]
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Community Calendar: June 10-23
Greater Portland Benefits Saturday 6/13 “Dial ‘M’ for Mad Horse,” auction and gala to support Mad Horse Theatre Co., 6-9 p.m., $25, 24 Mosher St., South Portland, 747-4148, madhorse.com. Electronic Waste Recycling Drive, to benefit Give a Child a Chance Fund, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., First Lutheran Church, 132 Auburn St., Portland 797-2525. Tuesday 6/16 Circus […]
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Arts Calendar: June 10-23
Greater Portland Books/Authors Friday 6/12 “Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession,” discussion with local author Lisa A. Phillips, noon, free, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, portlandlibrary.com. Saturday 6/20 “Lizzie Borden on Trial,” reading by local author Joseph Conforti, 2 p.m., free, Letterpress Books, Northgate Plaza, 91 Auburn St., Portland, 747-4232, letterpress-books.com. Film “In the […]
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Class of 2015: Mt. Ararat grad carves an independent path
TOPSHAM — Although she’ll be marching with her fellow Mt. Ararat High seniors on Sunday, Emma Etnier has spent this past school year elsewhere. Learning last year that she would be moving from Harpswell to Portland, she was faced with a dilemma. She wasn’t keen on either commuting to Topsham each day, or about finishing […]
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The Right View: The living history that is Pearl Harbor
I know the Maine Legislature is a madhouse these days, and there’s lots to talk about there. But I’ve just returned from Pearl Harbor, and am compelled to share the experience. For those who have never been, you should put it on your bucket list. I don’t know if it’s possible to fully appreciate what […]
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Class of 2015: Bath grad sails into gap year aboard his own boat
BATH — Before Perry Chase starts college, he’s taking a one-year detour on the sea. The 18-year-old Bath resident, who will graduate from Morse High School on Sunday, will set sail later this year on a 26-foot Nordic Folk Boat that he’s rebuilt. Chase said he planned for a while to take a “gap year” […]
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Dishin' That: Don't let the job interview eat you up
There’s been much rambling here recently on the do’s and dont’s of landing and/or keeping a restaurant job. Chiming in with their own suggestions, a few hospitality brothers and sisters made good points through email. Further brainstorming with my Restaurant Creative Consulting Team (which is always an excuse to drink wine), we dug deeper for […]
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Out & About: Summer-stock theater season opens
The summer solstice may be a couple of weeks away, but Maine’s 2015 season of straw-hat theater is already flowering. The 2015 season will include a number of traditional Broadway favorites plus a slew of recent shows. In Brunswick, Maine State Music Theatre just opened a wonderfully funny and poignant production of “The Full Monty,” […]
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The Universal Notebook: The land we love (and the governor we don't)
The land we love used to be a third of an acre in Yarmouth. Now it’s half an acre in Brunswick. We are slowly making it our own, shaping it by hand into what we want it to be before we move on. For 32 years, we worked on our Yarmouth yard, cutting down swamp […]
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Letter: Religion is as good a reason as any for law
Advocating “physician-assisted suicide,” Edgar Allen Beem writes that “As a person of faith(?), I am frankly sick and tired of the Catholic Church and religious conservatives trying to force their beliefs on society as a whole.” This is an example of the muddled thinking and hypocrisy that is increasingly common among many “progressive” opinion writers […]