The Dumpster
Where We Throw All the Stuff We Don’t Know What to Do With…
Metro will offer free bus service on Election Day… City receives its 100,000th cruise ship passenger this year breaking its previous record… In a surprise move Mayor Strimling endorses Pious Ali for Council over incumbent Jon Hinck… Rep. Bruce Poliquin touts New Balance but is caught wearing a pair of Nike’s… Tree man arrested at Congress Square for obstructing the public way… Portland Downtown asks residents for the perfect 60-foot holiday tree for Monument Square… Maine Historical Society honors Mary Bonauto who argued successfully for marriage equality before the Supreme Court… Travel show host Rick Steves stumps for legal marijuana while Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic stumps for ranked choice voting… WMPG hosts their 14th Annual Bluegrass Spectacular at One Longfellow Square… A punctual pileated woodpecker has got the attention of some Deering neighbors… City plants 75 trees in Riverton Trolley Park… Donn Fendler author of Lost on a Mountain in Maine dies at 90… Louie the Longfellow Books cat signs his toothy autograph to create a truly unique edition of Lily King’s Euphoia… MHNO supports protecting Fort Sumner Park’s vista of Back Cove and downtown… City plants yellow tulips at Lincoln park on Mental Health Awareness Day… Viking ship visits Congress Square Park for Leif Erickson Day… Fire House Museum open house features Percheron draft horses… Eric Blumrich sells uranium glass during First Friday Art Walk… Climate activists call for the demilitarization of the arctic outside Senator King’s Arctic Council meeting… Studios open across the state for Maine Craft Weekend… Local photographer Justin Levesque exhibits in an Eimskip shipping container hosted in Congress Square Park…
