BILL PEARSON Wed, 01/27/2021 - 8:30am
Ed Crocker is one of the many satisfied customers buying sports drinks and protein shakes at Harbor Nutrition in Boothbay. The store is owned by Kimberly Gordon, left, and Paige McLellan. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan first met in 2012 as third graders, and quickly became best friends forever. The two have been nearly inseparable since, but now are spending more time together as Boothbay’s newest entrepreneurs. Gordon and McLellan started Harbor Nutrition in January. The business at 473 Wiscasset Road specializes in energy drinks and protein shakes.
Harbor Nutrition features a menu with a unique mixture of ingredients created by McLellan and Gordon. The menu includes flavored protein shakes (fruity, vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter, and coffee lovers), energizing teas made from an herbal tea with aloe added for digestion. Gordon said the teas come in three categories (basic, boosted and lit)
BILL PEARSON Fri, 12/18/2020 - 8:45am
It’s not a restaurant. It’s a 10-person eatery with paper, Boothbay Code Enforcement Officer Jason Lorrain said about a change of use request for a new Wiscasset Road business. Lorrain made the statement during the Dec. 16 planning board meeting. Applicants Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan are leasing Joan Rittall’s property at 477 Wiscasset Road. The pair requested changing its use from a retail space to a 10-person eatery. Gordon and McLellan will sell wellness products and operate a coffee bar in the eatery.
During the hearing, a planning board member referred to the business as a restaurant. Lorrain corrected him. “It falls under a different classification because of the septic. There are three classifications. The property has tenants upstairs leaving the eatery with 100 gallons of septic per day. So the ordinance allows septic for a 10-person eatery and employees.” Due to limited septic, Gordon said the business w