March 2020
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Community News
May Day Festival planning continues Planning continues for Kennebunk’s 22nd annual May Day Festival. The festival is scheduled for Saturday, May 2, 2020 in downtown Kennebunk. The festival needs many volunteers that day to make things run smoothly and it need only be for a short time. Examples include: attaching ribbons to the May poles, […]
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Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Kennebunk Post, Scarborough Leader, South Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
Drum and bugle corp to practice March 28
The Maine Regiment All Age Drum & Bugle Corp will hold an informational/practice session for any interested members from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 28 at Stewart P. Morrill American Legion Post #35, 413 Broadway, South Portland. For more information, call 613-9196 or 409-4460.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Jonathan Crimmins: Sticker shock
This time of year, you see maple trees being tapped. You see the first signs of flowers coming to life. You see snowbanks quickly disappear. You see the beginnings of the budget process. That process tends to get started with the announcement of a really high number. Something that will shock the masses in preparation […]
Posted inTimes Record
David Treadwell: Bloomberg’s Fall, Biden’s Rise
America stands at the precipice: If we re-elect Donald Trump, he will become completely unchained, emboldened to do whatever he wants to do and punish anyone who gets in his way. He’ll continue to emasculate the justice system and ignore the principle of legislative oversight. He’ll clamp down on the media, threatening reprisals for what […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Unvaccinated virtual-school students still pose risk to general public
Re: “Our View: Lawmakers right to tweak Maine’s vaccine law” (March 12): Requiring children to be vaccinated in order to attend school serves two purposes (other than protecting the vaccinated child). Students and staff at the school have a higher degree of protection, with the higher rate of vaccination adding to the “herd immunity.” The […]
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On this date in Maine history: March 13
March 13, 1877: Teenager and Farmington native Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) patents a type of earmuffs that he designed with his grandmother’s help to cover his large ears while he went ice skating. While Greenwood did not invent earmuffs – contrary to popular myth – he did improve them by adding a V-shaped hinge that holds the […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Giving Voice: Vital partnerships — case managers and landlords
On Feb. 26, the Midcoast Interagency Services Collaborative (MISC) held its first landlord forum. Hosted by The Gathering Place, the meet and greet event brought together case managers and navigators from Tedford Housing, housing staff from Sweetser, community volunteers, personnel from Preservation Management and C&C Realty, private landlords, as well as the Brunswick Topsham Housing […]
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Letter to the editor: Abortion foes overlook people who’ve had to have them
The folks who are set against all abortion don’t know it all about the people who have had to have them. I believe in life, but the life of the mother, who has other children, comes first. My best friend had five children. When she found out that number six was on the way, the […]
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Scarborough event to highlight celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in the Diocese of Portland
SCARBOROUGH — Masses and special events at churches across Maine will highlight the diocese’s celebration of the Feast Day of St. Patrick. The feast day holds special significance in the Diocese of Portland as St. Patrick, along with St. Jean Baptiste, is a secondary patron of the diocese. In addition, St. Patrick Church in Newcastle […]
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