October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and two of the best tools for prevention are performing a monthly breast self-exam and getting a mammogram or breast ultrasound. Individual women are responsible for the former, and folks like breast care radiologist Amanda Demetri Lewis, D.O., are responsible for the latter. Demetri Lewis works in York […]

Since being founded by the late Frank Blow in 1953, Blow Bros. septic service has been a family affair. Anchored in Old Orchard Beach, the business was incorporated in 1970, expanding its services to include portable toilets. In 2000, the company merged with the Bestway solid waste service company owned by fellow Old Orchard Beach natives Archie and Paul St. Hilaire. Today, the two families run the business, including at satellite operations in Bangor, Belmont, N.H., and Brentwood, N.H. We recently spoke with James Blow, vice president of the Blow Bros.’ liquid waste division.

Q: Your business slogan or mantra is "We’re No. 1 in the No. 2 business." Are you, in fact, number one in this business?

A: Yes, we are — at least in Maine and New Hampshire.

Roly’s English Fudge owner/maker Marybeth Munroe is guaranteeing that there will be no meltdowns associated with her planned military operation this week — at least as far as the product is concerned. On Saturday, the Kennebunkport shop will take orders of its melt-proof fudge to be shipped to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan or elsewhere on […]

Though smoking has been banned in most public places, DAD’s Cigar Parlor & Tobacco Shoppe offers a welcome respite — at least for smokers of cigars and pipes.

Entering the Biddeford business is like walking into the gentlemen’s parlors of old.

Here, the regulars sit in comfortable lounge chairs, puff on the stogies and ponder life’s issues — their conversation filling the air along with the curling wisps of smoke being emitted from their cigars.