Rita Therese (Desrosiers) Payheur, 90, passed away peacefully April 8, 2023, at home surrounded by loved ones. Rita was born on Dec. 14, 1932 in Biddeford; the daughter of Alfred and Amanda Desrosiers. From a very early age, Rita was bright and curious. The oldest of eight children, she helped her mom raise the many […]
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From Augusta – A responsible budget of needs
Thursday, March 30 was a late but successful night at the State House. We passed a continuing services budget to pay the bills, ensure good governance and honor our commitment to support our communities. This Legislature, we are approaching the biennial budget in two phases to ensure that we keep the lights on and avoid […]
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Letters to the Editor
Protect Maine elections To the editor, I hope you will join me in urging our Kennebunk state legislators to support a bill to protect Maine elections that is now before the Maine Legislature. The bill would prohibit foreign governments from spending money in Maine referendum campaigns. Given the widespread, bipartisan support for this issue, the […]
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Guest Column – Chatterbox vs. Chatbot: May the best man/machine win
You could call me a chatterbox. Not in the traditional sense, like a blabbermouth (or a quidnunc, one of my favorite words). More in the sense that I write a lot. At one point in my life I was writing so many newspaper columns that a friend of mine suggested I was the human equivalent […]
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Guest Column – History repeats?
History Repeats? Repeats what? Well, it repeats patterns, but not the details. The city of Moscow is a good example. First written mention is in year 1147 as a small village situated on the Moscow River, which flows into the much larger Volga River. About 300 years after Kiyiv is first noted in The Russian […]
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From Augusta – Maine Legislature passes a responsible budget of needs, not wants
The Maine Legislature has been working hard. We recently passed a continuing services budget, which is a baseline budget that funds all services currently enacted in law. That means that most of the initiatives being funded by this budget are measures that passed in the 130th Legislature or earlier, often with strong, bipartisan support. It […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
A Window on the Past – Early undertakers in Knightville
In America today, when a loved one dies, we reach out to a funeral home to handle the arrangements for a service and burial. This was not always the case. The funeral industry didn’t really get its start in America until the time of the Civil War, when soldiers died of wounds or sickness at […]
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Community News – Kennebunk Land Trust Earth Day Online Auction is April 21-28
The Kennebunk Land Trust is holding its 23rd annual Earth Day Auction fundraiser, online from April 21-28. The event brings together hundreds of bidders, donors, and local items from restaurants, clothiers, jewelers, artists, experiences, and more. Kennebunk Land Trust is a nonprofit in Kennebunk conserving and stewarding land for public use and environmental benefit. Participation […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
Our Sustainable City – Round and round we go: South Portland’s circular economy
When South Portland adopted One Climate Future in 2020, one focus of our waste reduction strategies was on the creation of circular economies. Today, the sustainability department is moving into the implementation phase and is excited about some forthcoming circular economy initiatives. What is a circular economy? The term circular economy isn’t often discussed in […]
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Letters to the Editor
Leave them cats alone To the editor, I am bemused by the recent spate of attacks by some folks and pundits on cats, attempting to punish and neuter cats for, well, being cats, citing the predation of birds. In our neighborhood there are no feral cats, and I believe only a couple of outdoor cats […]
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