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Boston has Bluebikes and now, after an almost decade-long wait, Portland, Maine could get its own bike-share system. City officials are hoping to attract an offer from a bike-share operator after a previous offer fell through a couple years ago over external factors and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Nell Donaldson, director of special projects for the city’s Planning and.
The city hopes to find a suitable vendor by the middle of June and that that vendor is able to have a bikeshare program fully operational in Portland by the.
One year with COVID-19: Portland food scene hit hard by pandemic Share Updated: 7:04 PM EST Mar 10, 2021 Share Updated: 7:04 PM EST Mar 10, 2021
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 7:04 PM EST Mar 10, 2021 Portland was considered one of the foodiest towns in America when the pandemic knocked the entire industry off its foundation last year.Even longtime restaurants were not immune from the impact of the coronavirus.Former hot spots are now gone. For lease signs have replaced what were long lines of diners waiting for a taste of Portland.So many places closed that Portland Food Map kept a running “pandemic casualty list. Of course, now this is March when the idea that any of this could still be going on past May 1 seemed inconceivable,” said food and travel writer Joe Ricchio said.On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day last year, all three of Portland’s Irish pubs