VASSALBORO, Maine – Cup size has more than one meaning at a new central Maine coffeehouse.

Servers are topless at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop, which opened its doors Monday on a busy road in Vassalboro. A sign outside says, “Over 18 only.” Another says, “No cameras, no touching, cash only.”

On Tuesday, two men sipped coffee at a booth while three topless waitresses and a bare-chested waiter stood nearby. Topless waitress Susie Wiley said men, women and couples have stopped by.

The coffee shop raised the ire of dozens of residents when it went before the town planning board last month. Town officials said the coffee shop met the letter of the law.

Proposal to name a state berry is squished

SALEM, Ore. – Put in a jam by one sour response, Oregon lawmakers are chucking a plan to designate a state berry.

Resolution sponsors and the Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission wanted to honor the marionberry. The sweet blackberry variety was bred at Oregon State University and grows almost exclusively in Marion County.

Other berry interests – rasp, blue and straw – assented, but a grower of another blackberry variety objected. The Oregonian newspaper reported the commission then backed down.

Rep. Vicki Berger yanked her resolution. Given stickier economic issues to tackle, she says she’s “not going to bat over internal disputes in the berry community.”