Youth sports are my life. They were crucial to my own educational process, and I still believe in this profession because I honor how much student athletics mean to the development of countless others. It is with this affection for the games people play, and for that special nook of the world you all still […]
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The Hot Corner: Time for Pats to spike Gronk
Nothing, be it good, bad or gruesome, lasts forever in our world. My goodness, if 2016 didn’t teach us that, will anything? Most of us whose love of music exceeds singing in the shower would vote to keep all our rock stars over age 50 in a protective bubble, given the ones we’ve recently lost. […]
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If you can’t take the heat, imagine what it’s like in the kitchen
SOUTH PORTLAND — They call it the Bermuda Triangle of heat. In the corner of Scratch Baking Co. stands a 550-degree oven, a stove with pots of boiling water and a warm pastry oven. On a hot summer day this air conditioned-free-space can get up to 120 degrees. It’s not a place you would choose […]
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Dog days of Summer
With the summer heat, the caller was concerned for the dog’s safety. Cpl. Kevin Cramp responded. He ran the license plate to identify the owner, and went into a store near where the car was parked. The problem was solved quickly, he said, when within a few minutes, the dog’s owner came out of the […]