Friendship between Longfellow and Dickens highlighted during Longfellow House holiday tours… Sarah Thompson reelected Chair of School Board… Lisa Bunker and WMPG train citizen journalists this December… Seth Berner invents a new word, penguinocity, but it is unknown if it will make the dictionary… John Eder leaves the liveaboard life and moves back to the West End… Crash Barry looks for street team members to hang promotional posters at their local laundro-mats for free signed books… Deena Weinstein waits out Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm power outage at Ocean View retirement community… DigPortland introduced to Portland graffiti… Chris Shorr makes friends with a fox on Long Island… Climate Justice Vigil now convening every Sunday at noon in Congress Square… Portland Greens partying in SoPo at the Griffin Club… Holly Seeliger comes into possession of 10lbs of tortilla chips… Deanna Duffy at Peloton Labs has a sister who makes medieval crossbows… Mikki and David Little of Brentwood Street donate this year’s Christmas Tree… Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk gets three more years… Senator King opposes voting on construction projects, including Keystone pipeline, but does not speak against tar sands… Main Line Fence crew visit Portland to take a beer tour of Yeast Bayside… Andrew Bossie and Bill Creighton chatting and snacking at Bonobo…Carol McGorrill giving collating advice at Peloton Labs…Jacqui Deveneau originates inflammatory political cartoon… Paul Russell starting a local chapter of the US Bartenders’ Guild…