FARMINGTON — The Planning Board on Monday approved a site review application to raze the 43-year-old McDonald’s restaurant on Main Street and build a longer, narrower one on the site. Planners asked company representatives to consider some additions to make the new building “fit in” with the gateway of historic Farmington. The plan is for […]
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Children’s snowmobiles, skis stolen during Snodeo in Rangeley
RANGELEY — Police are investigating the theft of two children’s snowmobiles and skis off a full-size snowmobile between Saturday night and Sunday morning, police Chief Dennis Leahy said Monday. The full-size snowmobile was parked behind the Rangeley Saddleback Inn and the two children’s snowmobiles were parked on the opposite end of the building at the […]
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Rumford Historical Society selling restaurant-themed calendars
RUMFORD — The Rumford Historical Society is selling restaurant-themed calendars to raise money to preserve its historical documents and artifacts, President Randall Smith said Friday. Although the society has sold calendars related to the town’s history in the past, Smith said they had never focused on a specific theme. “We used to include random photographs […]
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Owner hopes to open Lewiston eatery Rails this fall
LEWISTON — A long-awaited restaurant planned for the historic Grand Trunk Depot on the edge of Simard-Payne Memorial Park should open this fall, owner Stephen Dick said Tuesday. Dick and his daughter, Ileshea Stowe, received their liquor license and special amusement permit for the restaurant, “Rails,” at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Dick said he hopes […]
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The Greenwood Dining Room to open soon in Farmington
FARMINGTON — A historic Front Street building, once the site of the Chester Greenwood earmuff factory, is undergoing alterations for the opening of The Greenwood Dining Room. Farmington’s newest restaurant will open in August, owners John Moore and Jennifer Bjorn said. From factory to dry cleaner to bike and stove shop, the newly renovated space […]
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Lewiston’s Grand Trunk restaurant back on track with new name & owner
LEWISTON — Work on a restaurant in the old Grand Trunk depot on the edge of Simard-Payne Memorial Park is back underway with the former owner, Karen Pulkkinen, out and formerly silent partner, Stephen Dick, now in charge. The new restaurant, expected to open sometime this year, will be called “Rails” and will feature farm-to-table […]
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Demo makes way for new, improved eatery on Sabattus Street in Lewiston
LEWISTON — The New Lewiston Mandarin Chinese restaurant is coming down and a new New Lewiston Mandarin Chinese restaurant is planned to go up in its place. The brick, one-story building at 750 Sabattus St. was too aged for the 7-year-old restaurant, owner Tony Zhang said Tuesday. It’s currently marked for demolition. Zhang said he’s […]
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Outdoor dining squeezes Portland’s sidewalks
PORTLAND — A battle is brewing in Portland between restaurants putting tables on the sidewalks to satisfy customer demand for alfresco dining and those who say the sidewalks are being impeded. Sight-impaired pedestrians, wheelchair users, stroller-pushing parents and other walkers have lodged official complaints about restaurants overextending into the sidewalk space in violation of their […]
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Andover’s Little Red Hen bakery and restaurant moving into former 1920s inn
ANDOVER — The appetite of a teenage boy sent his stepmother into the bakery and restaurant business, derailing her aspirations to get her master’s degree to teach high school English. That’s the story behind Melissa Smith and her husband, Wally Smith, owners of The Little Red Hen, a full-scale bakery and restaurant at 12 Main […]
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Auburn airport looks for someone to tend its cafe
AUBURN — Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport officials are looking for new operators to take over the operation’s small cafe. “It’s busy place, especially on the weekends,” airport assistant Debbie Berube said. “Some people fly in just to go eat. And of course, with the local people coming out to see the planes fly in, it got […]