The detour is in between Peaslee's and Jackson's corner store and was still in effect when I was on 17 as of 1:15.

Thanks!

Pivoting?

I'm in Union and in think hands down the Monsweag and Delvino's are the best restaurants within an hour of us.

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>Today most of those businesses are gone but the place names have endured.

Can you provide some examples of where the names of have endured? I'm trying to think of places like "millersville" or something.

>A few still have a variety stores and sometimes a post office.

Don't nearly all towns have a variety store or convenience store and a post office?

People didn't really commute a whole lot back then. You lived right next to or at where you work. Farmers lived in farms and grocers lived next to the grocery store.

Damn. I hope it's not permanent.

That's a good point!

Okay. That's how it came across.

Seems like your comment implied that parents aren't toxic and don't apply too much pressure now though. Which is the case. Parents are still too focused on their kids win records and stuff.

This is news to me. You've pointed me in the right direction.

Hopefully we can continue to increase maritime trade in such a historic port. We see little ships like the one in that article come into NYC all the time.

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That's really awesome insight. All of it accurate and lines up with my experience out here. I currently work in NYC on a tugboat and from all my history classes and shipping classes they all said that if Halifax had been focused on before NYC then it would have been what NYC is today.

I however, have much lower ambitions for a Portland container terminal. I wouldn't even aim for competing for ultra large carriers. I'd be happy to just take some trucks off the road and focus on domestic trade or even take some smaller ships coming from Halifax.

It's a damn shame, that attitude hurts the future of the state economy.

The bunker fuel argument doesn't hold water (🤣) because those ships remove far more emissions from the roadways. Though it sounds like you're the type of person that knows that. 😁

Maybe our efforts to be environmentally conscious will lead to the Port of Portland's expansion. Interstate trucking doesn't come close to domestic shipping when it comes to efficiency.

Portland does draw from all directions, something Bangor struggles with.

Portland isn't the best port for trade but it is significantly better than Bangor.

Edit: I would absolutely love if Portland got a good size container terminal.

Excellent. I'm glad there are ground and air reports that I have not seen yet.

If the air readers aren't finding any, apparently none.

Unless they have cleaned up the chemicals, don't think of them as a mass that is moving. Think of them as a mass that is spreading.

But seriously, you can think of them as Cheerios if you want to. I'm cool with that.

Good.

Very good. We don't need a fire though for chemicals to contaminate the air.

Fumes are made of chemicals. The chemicals contaminate the water and then it falls from the sky in the form of rain.

So the site is done contaminating the air?