The birds are barely chirping and there’s nary a sound anywhere around Willard Square in South Portland this Sunday morning. Absent are the usual flock of early risers who descend on Scratch Baking like busy bees to gobble up some of the most uniquely textured bagels in the Northeast.
As I walked in to the nearly empty store, the one sole shopper, standing in front of uncharacteristically full bins of bagels, said, “We should have the start of Daylight Savings Time all the time.”