MARCH, 2014
Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank to join Mike Michaud for
fundraiser at the home of former Portland Mayor Pete O’Donnell…City Councilor Ed
Suslovic leading Portland delegation to sister city Archangel, Russia for 25th
Anniversary…Pete Faris playing Spring, Spring, Spring on his WMPG show hoping to
move things along…Capisic Pond Enhancement Project hoping to get funds from City
Council for dredging of the pond…Emma Holder re-elected Parkside Neighborhood
Association President…Easter decorations in place at Designs by CC on Pleasant
Street… Project Bazia part of community clean-up in Kennedy Park… Professional
bowling in Portland to be televised on ESPN early next year…Former Red Sox
outfielder Trot Nixon will be at Hadlock Field in late April …
Yes, that’s Ruby fetching a stick at the East End Beach…Caroline Gavin keeping an
eye on all the links on thewestendnews.com… Portland on Time Magazine list of nine
cities ‘getting it right’…Carney Brewer picking up a few things at the Fresh Approach
deli counter…More USM students per class because of state budget cuts…Lucy
Tumavicus won state spelling bee by correctly spelling “neurotogenic”… Lauren
Johnson keeping track of a lot of recent West End events…Launch party for Crash
Barry’s Marijuana Valley on April 4th at Longfellow Books…
WMPG hoping to raise $50,000 in seven days at its annual Begathon…West End family
on mini-vacation at East End’s Residence Inn…Susan and Tony Reilly have been
running AIRE Theater for 10 years…Not as many lobsters as expected found in
Portland Harbor during current dredging operation…Governor Baldacci used to come
to Portland on St. Patrick’s Day and hang out at Popeye’s…Ruth Riddick hanging out
with Miss USA on St. Patrick’s Day…West End NEWS will have a shot at a Pulitzer
Prize at upcoming New York auction…Diane Morrison selling West End real estate
from her cabana in Hawaii…
Bike cop Dan Knight patrolling Monument Square…Local Irish planning annual St.
Patrick’s Day march from Irish Heritage Center to Harborview Park… Deena and
Jack Weinstein celebrating 44th Anniversary in New York City…Baxter Academy holds
its first lottery to determine incoming student body…Portland Flower Show attendance
expected to be 10,000 to 12,000…Mark Usinger thinks former state rep Herb Adams
should get an Oscar for lifetime achievement…City’s new communications director
Jessica Grondin to meet the press at City Hall event…Asher Platts kicking off his state
senate campaign at the WMPG Mardi Gras party…
Jenny Anastasoff claims the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were spotted
downtown… First skateboarders of the season at Federal & Temple…Couple in
Memphis shipped three copies of ‘Just Between You & Me’ to Portland for the
author’s autograph…“The Elephant Piece” will have its New England premiere at the
Portland Stage Studio Theater…Newest Coffee By Design opens in East Bayside…
Launch party for Crash Barry’s Marijuana Valley April 4th at Longfellow Books…
First robin sightings reported in the West End…Scott Scharf at an Eagles concert in
DC…Olympic figure-skating gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White to skate in
Portland…Maine Governor seated one row behind Emily Amborn on recent flight
home…
East End School students taste-testing seaweed pizza…Mittapheap Market moving
from Washington Avenue to Pine Tree Shopping Plaza on Brighton Avenue…Jed
Rathband showing potential buyers a splashy condo on High Street…Chris Busby
ready to abolish Presidents Day…USM election season is in full swing…Longfellow
Square Dishcrawl planned for March…Maine’s first Paint and Wine Bar to open in
Portland… Former Portland School Board member Stephen Spring getting married in
Texas…Lisa Walker (who was the owner of Ubuntu, the African import store that was
on Commercial Street) on a bike tour in the Mekong Delta…Howie Carr addressing the
Cumberland County Republican Convention…Bazia Antoni headed down to St. John
Street to check out Big Boss…Tracie Reed looking for a Downton Abbey party…
