THE DUMPSTER

WHERE WE THROW ALL THE STUFF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH

Portland West’s Tom Pearson out on Park Street with the graffiti-removal team…Local reporter claims she has never pumped her own gas and doesn’t know how…Sue Pastore playing Grandma on Congress Street…Will King in town for the White Stripes concert…Green Party whirlwind Martin Shepherd heading home to Tennessee after a sendoff at Brian Boru…Some predicting Spencer Cohen will follow Dad’s footsteps to the Portland City Council someday…PMA staff enthusiastically welcoming artists displaying in front of the world-class Congress Square museum…Marc & Maria Niblock visiting Mom on Munjoy Hill…A Who’s Who of Portland at the reception for Portland Through the Lens at Domaine Gallery on Commercial Street…Didn’t know that Paul’s Market has a branch at 100 State Street…Ginger and Ken Swanberg spending a lot of time lounging around CBD on Congress Street… Former City Councilor Peter O’Donnell new co-chair of Mayor’s Health and Wellness Task Force…Former PHS sports star Skippy Edwards is 21!… Wendy Cherubini getting a whole new wardrobe for upcoming Alaskan cruise…Luke Flagg back in town for a visit from Baghdad… Dem Congressional hopeful Mike Brennan is at just about every public event in the city…Airline pilot and crew stopped at St. Lawrence to get a tour and buy a roof slate before fastening their seat belts and taking off again…Guy called the WEN two weeks after the last paper came out to tell us he found a typo (Was he looking for it all that time?!)…They’ll be lining up at the spectacular new Local 188 on Congress Street, scheduled to open August 1st…