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So sometimes you're in downtown Portland mid-day on a Thursday and you're tired of the vibrating din of traffic and commerce and you wish there were some way to escape it all and find a little peace and relaxation but it can't be something that you have to pay for because you're flat broke and you wonder why there isn't some free concert series to take you away from it all.
There is. 
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Thank goodness for Casco Bay. And as long as you're thanking goodness, you should also thank Friends of Casco Bay.
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So why would thirty, forty people be lining up at noon on a Saturday, inside a cinderblock building in Portland's Bayside neighborhood? The answer, as you may suspect, had everything to do with the bottled objects in the lower-left of the photo. Beer.
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Poet Richard Blanco is back home in Bethel, Maine after reading his poem "One Today" at President Barack Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D. C.
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The cold snap appeared to be on its way out. The good old Call Joe sign on the Time & Temperature Building was flashing 22 degrees.
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This week, Women's Health (in partnership with Men's Health) released their fifth-annual report on the country's healthiest cities for women. The editors come to these rankings using a fairly wide array of data in 41 categories, including nutrition, cost of living, and cancer rates.
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It seems that everyone welcomed Eventide Oyster Co. with open mouths in 2012.
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By midnight a crowd of well-wishers had gathered outside Portland's City Hall. Mayor Michael Brennan offiicially opened the clerk's office at 12:01 am EST on December 29th, the earliest time that same-sex couples could exercise their new right to marry.
