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The Wrap: Online Kneading Conference, arrest made in Whitefield farmstand destruction More Thai and more brunch for Portland diners, plus beer-guzzling dogs (OK, not exactly, but gotcha to look). Photo courtesy of Brian Hanson Rigby Yard, at 50 Wharf St. in Portland, which opened for weekends as a beer hall and restaurant in October, launched Sunday brunch on March 7. It plans to open weekdays, too, beginning Monday, as a “third space” concept providing a casual space to meet, relax and work, according to Brian Hanson, co-owner of Rigby Yard and Independent Ice Co. Rigby Yard’s new hours will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, serving coffee and coffee drinks from Time & Tide coffee roasters in Biddeford. (The hall is open later hours on weekends, still serving beer, wine and cocktails.) The food will include “light fare” and quick-serve breakfast and lunch items for eating in or takeout. The outdoor patio is expected to open April 1. ....
The Wrap: Pizza, beer, and (gluten-free) brownies Bam Bam Bakery finds a new home, Brickyard Hollow Brewing delivers pizza, and Portland will get another brewery. Share Tina Cromwell doesn’t yet have permits or an opening date, but she’s got a space – a new home for 9-year-old Bam Bam Bakery, which closed its retail business on Commercial Street in Portland last year and focused on takeout only. Cromwell says she has leased 148 Anderson St. in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood to realize her goal of having “a more workable commercial kitchen” and a shipping department. (She has been working with the online marketplace Goldbelly to sell her gluten-free goods nationwide.) In her new retail space, in addition to her own baked items, Cromwell plans to offer gluten-free products (such as crackers) that she can’t make herself, as well as gluten-free beer and wine. ....
Maine’s top vegan news stories of 2020 While animal-based food processors experienced problems, vegan options abounded on local menus. By Avery Yale Kamila Share The Tyson Foods chicken-processing plant, wedged between Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital in Portland, experienced a COVID-19 outbreak in April and was shut for three days, mirroring infections at its other plants around the country. But arguably the biggest animal-based food story in Maine this year was when state investigators found that a dairy farm in Fairfield had contaminated the groundwater, its neighbors, its cows and their milk with the toxins known as forever-chemicals. The contamination comes from sewage sludge, often laced with industrial waste, spread on the farm fields for years. Maine continues to allow the controversial sludge-spreading on conventional farms, though the practice is banned on organic farms. ....