Ahram Halal: The best just keeps getting better

Forest Avenue is fast becoming Portland’s premier international food strip with several groceries, restaurants, and a bakery. Ahram Halal Market (630 Forest Avenue, Woodford’s area) is my go to place for pomegranate molasses, whole frozen chickens, rose water, salty yogurt drink, middle eastern sweets and candies, cardemom pods, date syrup, flat breads, cookies, preserved lemons, […]

Casco Bay Lines board votes itself a free ride

The Casco Bay Island Transit District (CBITD) board has voted itself free ferry travel in a measure to increase engagement in public oversight of island ferries. CBITD board members are island residents that have been elected by fellow residents of Peaks, the Diamonds, Cliff, Chebeague, and Long Islands as well as ex-officio posts which include representatives from the […]

Congress Street isn’t the only place for people-watching on Friday night

Tonight Portland residents and visitors can enjoy Congress Street as a pedestrianized space free of car traffic. The temporary closure of a street is known as an Open Street and tonight’s Open Street is again being held in conjunction with First Friday Art Walk and there will be additional programming, namely circus acts, to lend […]