JUMP INTO THE DUMPSTER – OCTOBER 2015

West End named Best Neighborhood by the Buy Local Indie Biz Awards… Bay Ferries Ltd named new operator for ferry service between Portland and Nova Scotia… Rob Korobkin publishes a mail piece advertising support from all the City’s elected Greens… Wells Lyons secures the purple sea monkey vote as evidenced at the Reiche 5k benefit run… Spencer Thibodeau promises donuts to his army of volunteers… Vinny O’Malley says Pizza Villa has the best fish chowder… Hidden Ladder Collective come across an Asher Platts campaign sign in California while on tour promoting PBL Robots card game… Doug Clop and about 75 supporters deliver 70,000 signatures to put statewide ranked choice voting on the November 2016 ballot…El Rayo will reopen on Free Street… Portland Food Co-op celebrates its one-year anniversary… Seanachie Nights returns with Tales of the Supernatural at Bull Feeney’s… DHHS announces first positive flu case of the season was detected by Mid Coast Hospital… OOB catches up to Portland with their own community skate park on Ball Park Way… Rachel Talbot Ross announces she will resign as City’s head of multi cultural affairs… Michele Markowitz Arcand hosts the 10-year celebration of open mic at Dogfish… Apothecary by Design is the only Portland-based company to win the Governor’s Award for Business Excellence… House Speaker Mark Eves endorses Mike Brennan for mayor… Harlan Baker and Wells Staley-Mays endorse Tom MacMillan for mayor… Jay Norris announces that the Munjoy Hill Observer will be taking a break from publication… Fire Chief Jerome LaMoria resigns… Dan Knudsen sings of monsters and mayhem at Dogfish Open Mic… City begins search for a 45-foot to 60-foot well-rounded behemoth to make the perfect Holiday tree…Drew Joy is hired as Executive Director for the Southern Maine Workers’ Center… An organic juice bar is moving to the West End… Ben Chipman celebrates National Taco Day and eats a 2 lb. taco in less than 60 minutes to win free tacos for a year… An ice-coffee toting stick figure is a big hit at the Crooked Mile Rosemont… Maine Marathon bumps Sundays on the Boulevard… Washboard Eco Laundry closes its doors because landlord refuses to resign lease… At first mayoral debate Mike Brennan admits it’s been a bumpy road, Ethan Strimling says he was a troubled youth, and Tom MacMillan says he was a homeless youth…