South Portland

The Comfort Inn on Maine Mall Road in South Portland sits about a mile from the airport.

It is a hotel for people who need a bed, a shower, and nothing else.

At five forty-three on the evening of Monday, September tenth, two thousand and one, two men check into room two three three.

Her new book, Murder at the Movies, a movie palace mystery, available for sale on October 6th.

And you'll be in South Portland at Books a Million for a book signing on October 10th at 6 o'clock.

By the way, I would definitely go sign me up if you decide to do an Arthur Kennedy drinks in Maine double feature.

I always thought that was funny when you watch Peyton Place and A Summer Place, two films set in Maine, and Arthur Kennedy is drinking in both of them.

Murder at the Movies, A Movie Palace Mystery.

Again, it's available for sale on October 6th.

And if you want to get a signed copy, you can meet Alicia right in South Portland at Books a Million.

That's coming up on October 10th at 6 p.m. And I can't wait for the book to get out there and for the world to see this.

You should, uh, [laughs] you should check it out.

Uh, Troy Jackson in a real word salad in South Portland.

He was at some, like, education conference and [laughs] it was a simple question, and he couldn't answer it.

Is this the one where he didn't know who the, uh...

And James McGlinchey and his brother, Patrick, opened a brewery in 1858.

And then another one that was in South Portland, Cape Elizabeth.

And then they opened another one in Portland.

When James McGlinchey died in 1880, his estate was $200,000, which is like five, six million today.

So, you know, we recognize that, Bishop Healy.

So you can go to the cathedral.

And also Calvary Cemetery in South Portland is a massive old cemetery with a lot of the giant old gravestones, Celtic crosses of the immigrants and their children.

And you can see how much money a lot of these immigrants spent, other children spent on these great big gravestones.

The department is urging residents to explore heating assistance and energy efficiency programs to help offset winter costs.

A new state report on air quality in South Portland finds that while there's little short-term health risk, long-term risks are somewhat elevated.

Acting state toxicologist Tom Simone says that's due to a chemical called benzene found in the air in a few neighborhoods near the city's large oil tanks.

And there are homes that are very close to those facilities, so that is a concern.

The air monitoring project began in 2019 after residents living near the tanks reported strong fuel smells and symptoms including headaches.

State officials will hold a public meeting at the South Portland High School next month to answer questions about the findings.

For the first time in 150 years, the official copy of the Maine state constitution includes language about the state's treaty obligations with the Wabanaki nations.

Kevin Miller reports on the significance of the wording and why it's being revived.

It's going to be big for them.

Some other big games in the area, Thornton Academy beating South Portland in a game that was pretty close.

South Portland up in Maine hung with them for three quarters.

Thornton Academy, the number one team in vacation land, was able to pull away.

They also had an upset of sorts.

That's good

... we have a Massage Envy that has, like, one esthetician or two in, like, South Portland, but that's it.

There's no, like, Hand and Stone here.

There's no chain.

The drive from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Bar Harbor, Maine, is nearly five hours.

So, since Frank reported that they left for this spur of the moment trip at 8:30 PM, it made sense that their dark blue 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass pulled into the hotel in South Portland, Maine, at around 10:30 PM to stop for the night, getting about half of the trip under their belt

beltThis is weird to me that they left at 8:30.

Anthony and I are early morning people when we are going on a trip, so we're waking up at, like, 4:00 AM, 5:00 AM just to get on the road.

Okay.

Okay.

So they stayed the night in South Portland and stopped at 10:30 PM on September 2nd.

Okay.