WHERE WE THROW ALL THE STUFF WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH…

Mayor Ethan Strimling admits that he is a Giants fan… Former NPR foreign correspondent Annie Avilés chosen to lead Salt Institute for Documentary Studies… A $3,500 check from the Bangor Savings Bank helps to create a Cultural Competency training program for Portland Public Schools’ staff… Kolawole Bankole named city’s new Public Health Director… Holly Seeliger restarts the Portland Green Independent Party… The fifth annual BikeMaine ride has sold out… Vinny O’Malley reminds the neighborhood that the original St. Patrick’s Day parade still leaves from the Irish Heritage Center on the morning of… Former State Senate candidate Asher Platts gives himself a proper 1300’s surf haircut… Maine Board of Pesticides Control finds 14 synthetic pesticides in Portland stormwater… Maine’s only professional opera company PORTopera has changed its name to Opera Maine… Maine Small Business Development Center celebrates 40 years… City crews jump the gun and start spring street sweeping before season’s final snow storms… Lincoln Middle School students perform Pop-up MacBeth during PortFringe theater festival… Heather Sanborn and Mary Allen Lindemann, respective owners of Rising Tide Brewing and Coffee by Design, support $64 million school bond… Dick Stevens is reigning champ of Mexican Train Dominoes at Games & Fun at Reiche Community Room… Joan Grant had one round where she never left the station… S&P updates credit rating for Portland to AA+… Herb Adams reads Paul Revere’s Ride for Longfellow’s 210th birthday…

Correction: In March issue’s Dumpster column, we stated that Jet Video was launching a fundraiser to save its Post Office.  This was incorrect.  Its Post Office is fine and not going anywhere.