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Royalty Sighted

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Monday, March 7, 2011 — We are not in the habit of fawning over royalty. We have not had a known monarchist on our staff since Daniel Fowle sent his counterfeiting nephew Robert Luist Fowle packing 230 some-odd years ago. That being said, we recognize that some royal visits deserve attention and respect. Kate the Great is in town, and is available on tap now at the Portsmouth Brewery. Don’t tarry — it will probably be gone before 6:00 p.m. In honor of this felicitious occasion the Brewery’s Retail Store Manager, Liz Barrett, rode her little pony for a while in the front window of …

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The Café Formerly Known as Brioche

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Sunday, January 30, 2011 — Sara asked, in a Comment on yesterday’s Beer Girl post, “is there some issue with Breaking New Grounds I don’t know about that you won’t mention their name?” In a word, yes. Café Brioche welcomed The New Hampshire Gazette. We used to distribute more than 5,000 copies of the paper there during the course of a year. After Brioche closed, we asked the new management at that site if we could continue distributing papers there. The answer was “No.” That was, of course, their prerogative. That decision, though, forced us to find and install the red plastic distribution box which …

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Beer Girl Sighted

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Saturday, January 29, 2011 — Under ordinary circumstances, when covering the news, we try to apply a wider perspective or dig more more deeply than other media. Just being the first usually strikes us as a meaningless endeavor. Not today, though. We don’t have a broader picture on this story, and we don’t have any details to speak of. All we can tell you, dear Reader, is that at 3:13 p.m. today, Beer Girl was seen exiting the Provident Bank on Daniel Street. She then crossed Daniel Street in the vicinity of the Café Formerly Known as Brioche. She was last seen heading west on …

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Maine Gubernatorial Visits — Part III

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Another update from Ben Porter on the effort to educate the next Governor of Maine on the importance of our bridges: Subject: Two Final Gubernatorial Candidate Schedules Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 5:49 PM From: Save Our Bridges! This note provides you with the schedule for the final two gubernatorial candidate visits here in Kittery, and provides a quick summary of the positions of the candidates who have visited so far. On Wednesday, September 15th, Independent Candidate Kevin Scott will be at the Weathervane Lobster in the Rough on Badgers Island at Noon. He will be focusing on listening to all of us about the …

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Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II

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This just in from Ben Porter at Save Our Bridges: Another visit from a Maine Gubernatorial candidate, this coming Tuesday … Message Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:04 PM From: Save Our Bridges! Subject: Gubernatorial Candidate Visits – Part II Over the past month we have had visits to Kittery by two of the Gubernatorial candidates, Elliot Cutler (Independent) and Libby Mitchell (Democrat). We have scheduled another visit next week, and are in the process of scheduling two more. In each of these meetings, our objective is to educate the candidate about the criticality of our bridges to the community, to the State of Maine, …

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Maine Senate President Coming to Badger Island August 24th

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Monday, August 16, 2010 — Maine Rep. Dawn Hill has informed local bridge activists that Maine’s Senate President, Libby Mitchell, will visit Badger’s Island tomorrow one week from tomorrow* to inspect Memorial Bridge and the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, and to conduct a forum for the area businesses and concerned residents. The forum will be held at Weathervane’s Lobster in the Rough pier on Badger’s Island, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 24th. The importance of this event is, we presume, self-evident. Here is Rep. Hill’s e-mail: Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen: Exciting and good news to share for further support of the Bridge …

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