Daily Dumpster: Where We Throw All the Stuff We Don’t Know What To Do With

Long-time Portland firefighter David Jackson to be the next Fire Chief… Portland Trails celebrate 25th anniversary with cupcakes in Monument Square… Bangor Savings gives its workers a raise, the bank’s minimum wage is now $13 per hour… US Senate votes to say that climate change not caused by humans… Holly Seeliger spots a bald eagle soaring over the West End… Long-time Wolfeboro, NH, parks and recreation director, Ethan Hipple, hired as the new Director of Recreation… Friends of the Eastern Prom sell off chunks of Fort Allen park’s wrought iron fence to cover the cost of replacement… Maine People’s Alliance delivers enough signatures to put a minimum wage raise on the 2016 state ballot… All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is Longfellow Books‘ number one bestseller in 2015… Spencer Thibodeau and Belinda Ray join in roasting former councilors Dave Marshall and Kevin Donoghue… Tony Buxton apologies for the 2007 “Greens Cause Chaos” signs… METRO boasts over 1.5 million riders, the most ridership in almost thirty years… Maine Greens announce that unenrolled voters are welcome to vote in their party primary… Holly Seeliger is selected by the Young Elected Officials Network to attend a clean energy conference in Denver, uses FundRazr to cover expenses… Ruby McMahon-King, the ‘best dog in the world,’ celebrates her 14th birthday… Bicycle Coalition of Maine reports first pedestrian fatality of the New Year occurs in Farmington on January 1st…