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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz |Figgy DiBenedetto
Making a Better WorldHey, folks! So this month I’ve got some stuff to help you a bit if you’re with me in making this world a better place. Things like I recently read about schoolchildren up in Poland (Maine, that is) getting together and harvesting baby fish. Now if the whole world could do things like this…The first thing that came to mind when I thought about ways to help the world is vote Democrat. But then I realize I probably don’t have to tell you that, do I?
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz |Chris Busby |Figgy DiBenedetto
photo/Kiki Garfield Oktoberfest Edition Welcome back, barbecue fans, to another Smokin’ Sausage Showdown, The Bollard’s almost annual competition among local butcher shops for greasy glory! We were so busy last barbecue season that we had to skip this event, and it wasn’t until late this September that we got it together for this special Oktoberfest Edition, or what we like to call the First Annual Fall Classic (sic) Smokin’ Sausage Showdown! After seven or eight Showdowns, it was abundantly...
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz |Chris Busby |Figgy DiBenedetto
photo/Dan ZarinGonneville Farm and Homestyle Cookin379 New County Rd., Dayton284-5060I’m going to confess something right now. I’ve lived in and around Portland for over 20 years and it wasn’t until last month that I heard of the tiny town of Dayton, located less than half an hour away, just west of Saco. The restaurant at Gonneville Farm in Dayton dates back only about 10 years, but their seasonal ice cream window has been an institution for decades.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Chris Busby |Zack Barowitz
Governor unfairly rejects clemency for Maine’s foremost justice advocate It’s time for us to free Leo Hylton, the restorative justice advocate and scholar caged in Maine State Prison. I wish it didn’t have to be us, the everyday Mainers who certainly have enough injustice on our plates to choke down these days. I wish Gov.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Zack Barowitz |Chris Busby |Dan Zarin |Figgy DiBenedetto
images/Zack BarowitzEverything you never wanted to know about tinned sardinesSeveral years ago, your correspondent met a friend at a local restaurant to enjoy some drinks and tapas. Among the small-plate offerings were sardines, which, when served grilled or fried, are a popular snack in Mediterranean countries.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Figgy DiBenedetto |Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz
photo/Figgy DiBenedettoQuanto Basta249 Congress St., Portlandquantobasta.meThe only time I ever saw my late husband Johnny get really angry was when a mason put grout between the tiles on our new wood-fired pizza oven. To prove the mason (who insisted he was correct) wrong, we fired the oven up to the proper temperature for cooking Pizza Napoletana. That temperature is over 800 degrees, sometimes closer to 900.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz |Figgy DiBenedetto
A poor man donator Hey, folks. How you doin’? I’m much better now after my absence due to a mild stroke. And I’m feeling better than a horse in clover and I’m gonna tell you why. It all started with this odd hobby I picked up a few years ago. The place called St. Jude and the Wounded Warriors sent me their literature in the mail. So without much thought about it I mailed them back a few bucks — you know, pocket change. Next year a few more places sent me their asking paperwork, I called it.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Dan Zarin |Zack Barowitz |Figgy DiBenedetto
photo/Dan ZarinThe Continental170 Brighton Ave., Portlandthecontinentalportland.comWhen my wife and I moved to Maine in 2002, Portland’s Oakdale neighborhood was the first place we called home. After several years away from the area (which includes USM’s Portland campus), we returned in 2017. We love its central location and quiet, suburban vibe. But because the neighborhood is almost entirely residential, the city’s thriving food scene never quite made it to Oakdale.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Figgy DiBenedetto |Zack Barowitz |Dan Zarin
photo/Figgy DiBenedettoRegards547 Congress St., Portland747-5940regardsmaine.comWhen a new restaurant opens to great fanfare, I tend to sit back and wait for the hoopla to simmer down before trying it. I remember all too well when my restaurant in the Hudson Valley got a wee write-up in the New York Times and the chaos that ensued. We weren’t ready for the mob of (often pretentious) self-described foodies, nor did we realize how we were pissing off our regulars. Spotlights are scary.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
thebollard.com | Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan |Kenneth W. Beek |Zack Barowitz
photos/Jessie BanhazlThe second-most-famous* traffic stop in the history of the Kennebunks happened on a Saturday evening in July of 2014. Kennebunk resident Gavin “Scotty” Falconer, a kindly Korean War vet and former milkman who’d recently turned 84, was driving with his wife, Janet, on Fletcher Street, allegedly to get some ice cream in another town.
