The Cumberland hub has an alcoholic-beverage license notice on the register (NN-2026-00119). This brief stays inside that notice.
The notice on this register — publication number NN-2026-00119 — is an alcoholic-beverage license notice already tagged to the Cumberland hub. The heading on the card is “Class XI restaurant license — Wharf Cellar, 44 Commercial Street.” The city line is Portland, Cumberland County, Maine 04101. The address printed on the listing is 44 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101. The file or solicitation number on the listing is BAB-2026-014. The parties field names Wharf Cellar Provisions, Inc.. Open the source page at https://noticenearby.com/notices/me-portland-liquor-wharf-cellar if you want the same text this brief used.
The posted matter, in the notice’s own words, is this: Wharf Cellar Provisions, Inc. has applied for a license to sell alcoholic beverages at 44 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, doing business as Wharf Cellar. That is the action on the card. This brief does not add a staff recommendation, a vote, a map, a protest count, or a remote-testimony link unless that sentence is already in the notice. If the listing is silent on those points, they are not invented here.
If you live, work, or own property near the posted place, the paper to ask for is BAB-2026-014. Interested persons use the posted time and the posted room — not this explainer — to appear or to send written comments. The Cumberland hub lists the notice so a neighbor who scanned a county QR sheet can tell this alcoholic-beverage license from a community announcement card. The listing stays a register row. It is not official minutes.
Notice Nearby is not a newspaper. A register placement does not satisfy newspaper or other statutory legal-notice requirements. Legal Publication is not for sale at checkout. If the underlying listing carries a product label, that label belongs to the notice page, not to this explainer. This page is not a statutory notice and it is not a news story.
Use the publication number NN-2026-00119 and the source URL https://noticenearby.com/notices/me-portland-liquor-wharf-cellar when you want to check the same words this brief used. The office or applicant named on the notice is Wharf Cellar Provisions, Inc.. The question in the room is the action printed on that card — Class XI restaurant license — Wharf Cellar, 44 Commercial Street — and not a lien sale. Ask the posting office for file BAB-2026-014.
This page is not the hearing, not the bid opening, not the staff report, and not a vote. It is an in-house explainer of the government-interesting notice already on the Cumberland hub. Notice Nearby is not a newspaper and this brief is not Legal Publication.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.