Portland police worried about continuing intown car burglaries...This year’s Sea Dogs team may be the best ever…UMaine’s Derrick Johnson hoping to catch on with New England Patriots…Martin’s Point sponsoring Grandparents Day at Hadlock…New West End NEWS developing a collection of young writers…Terra Firms’a Lori Dorr set to open a sock store on Preble Street…Steven Scharf making new enemies on John McDonald’s morning show…WPOR’s Rachel Flehinger just tired of getting up so early every day… Cliff Gallant get- ting serious about writing his first novel… Sarah Colton back home from a blaz- ing hot Nevada… Lemonade sales going strong outside Reiche… Everybody’s doing the ‘ice bucket challenge’… Ellen Sanborn moving from City Hall to the school department after 30 years… Shelton Waldrep first USM prof elect- ed to Maine Film Center board… Its ‘Wait ‘til next year’ for WENA’s annual (rained out) picnic… Marge Niblock partying in East Bayside at National Night Out…West End NEWS fans on Congress Street getting excited about the imminent return of the popular local rag… Casco Bay Ferry’s new terminal officially open… Senate candidate Shenna Bellows finishing up walk across Maine in Monument Square… West End motorist chased down driver who smacked her car and took off…
When we last left DeliveryMan and PaperBoy, they were somewhere on a beach on the Mediterranean Sea in their Speedos, sipping their traditional bottle of inexpensive red wine. NewsHound was happily digging a hole in the white sand. They had run the WestEndNewsMobile off the Maine State Pier into Casco Bay, and they had taken an oath that newsprint would never again blacken their newly-scrubbed workingman hands (or paws). But when you have talent like they do, people find you. Their cell phone rang, and after a few moments of reflection, they were on a plane back to Portland to resume their true calling. ‘Whose idea was it to get rid of all the winter clothes?’ wondered NewsHound from under the business-class seat…
