By Peter Monro Local group seeks volunteers to bolster a new effort to conserve and enhance Western Cemetery in collaboration with the City of Portland and its new Cemetery Superintendent, M... Read more
By Nancy Dorrans One of the gains of the pandemic is that a lot more people have ventured outside for their vacations. While hesitant to travel by air or stay in hotels, road trips and campi... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig Presents UNICORN WINE HUNT By Layne V. Witherell If you Google up “unicorn wine” you get not only a slew of mixed wisdom from the reigning sommelier god of the moment,... Read more
The Portland Charter Commission has much to decide, but what they have already moved forward would transform municipal politics – if approved by voters. By Tony Zeli Although there is... Read more
By Mary C. Sanders, FNP-C, BC-ADM, CDCES Let’s face it; change is hard. Most of our behaviors are habitual and become automatic overtime. We are all multi-tasking, so anything we can let run... Read more
Portland Charter Commission will wrap up its work and present a final report to city council by summer. By Tony Zeli The Portland Charter Commission must make major decisions on what changes... Read more
Ocean Swimming in Winter?!? Foul Weather Friends with Jeannette Strickland
Ocean Swimming in Winter?!? Foul Weather Friends with Jeannette Strickland Every month PelotonLabs co-founder Liz Trice interviews a local community member. This month, Liz caught up with Je... Read more
By Nancy Dorrans If you read my article last month, you know that I spent the holidays a bit differently this season. Along with my father, sister, and her family from Ohio, we stepped out o... Read more
By Layne V. Witherell Among the zillions of job descriptions that I have had in this wild forty-plus year ride in the wine biz, one was as a CEO of a medium sized Virginia winery in the earl... Read more



DO SOMETHING!!! -By Kevin Butterfield
We’re All in This Together DO SOMETHING!!! By Kevin Butterfield December 1997. First one, then two nephews, safely snapped into their car seats and we’re headed home. Playing uncle was... Read more