The Brick Store Museum will host a vintage base ball game between the Dirigo Base Ball Club of Maine vs. Mudville (of Holliston, Massachusetts) at noon on Saturday, Aug. 6. The game will be played on Kennebunk’s Parsons Field, at the corner of Dane and Park streets. Tickets to the game are $5 per person, […]
Dan King
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Our Sustainable City – Share your plastic-free experience with us
For the month of July, the South Portland Sustainability Office attempted to be plastic free and asked residents to join us. A core reason the South Portland Sustainability Office decided to pursue going plastic free for a month was to acknowledge how difficult it is to be plastic free, find the areas of our life […]
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From Augusta – Thank you to a ‘warm community’ of friends and neighbors
Elizabeth Taylor. Sheryl Crow. Mary Tyler Moore. And you can add me, Representative Traci Gere, to that list. No, I haven’t suddenly become famous, although I have been known to belt out “Soak Up the Sun” on a beautiful Maine summer day. Rather, I have joined the list of people diagnosed with a meningioma, a […]
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Guest Column – Wiffle ball tournament is a home run
The Tommy McNamara Charitable Foundation Wiffle ball tournament is a home run, nine years later. What did Tommy love most about his summers and Kennebunk? Family and friends, of course, and he loved playing Wiffle ball with his best friends in his backyard or at “The Hose.” So, after the tragic loss of Tommy in […]
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August’s featured exhibition at Speers Gallery is announced
Kennebunk Free Library announced its next Speers Gallery exhibit, Peace of My Mind, by Madeleine P. Hopkins, opening Monday, Aug. 1. The exhibit is a visual memoir of her art and prose, and consists of 33 landscape paintings or prints coupled with the written word. Hopkins uses a combination of oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel. […]
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Guest Column – Word up
I was surprised when a friend, who had been reading my guest columns, suggested that I was a very wordy person, and seemed to love using as many words as possible. My first thought was that he was criticizing me for using too many words, and my second thought was that he was complimenting me […]
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Our Sustainable City – Plastic Free July: Cultivating a reuse economy and community
At our July Coffee and Climate session, Dr. Cindy Isenhour of the University of Maine described New England as the attic of the United States, and Maine “the attic of that attic.” This was in reference to our region’s engrained tradition of reuse, full of antique shops, thrift stores, and garage sales. Maine’s reuse economy […]
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A Window on the Past – Seaboard Packing Company
This week, we finish looking at the two sardine factories that existed in South Portland in the 1900s. The two canneries were both on the waterfront in Ferry Village. The E.W. Brown cannery was located farthest east, at the end of a dirt driveway that led from Front Street to the start of the breakwater […]
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Community News – SoPo Dog Owners plan workshop
As part of an ongoing effort to promote responsible dog ownership, the South Portland Dog Owners Group (SoPoDog) will host another in its series of SoPo Dog Ambassador workshops on Thursday, July 28, at 8 a.m. at Willard Beach. Additional Ambassador training workshops will be held next month. According to a July 15 press release […]
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Letters to the Editor
What’s going on? Is this unethical? City councilor Jocelyn Leighton ran in District 1 in November and has since moved to District 3. The city clerk, attorney and council have decided she can remain in her city council seat despite the language of the city charter. In fact, the charter does not permit more than […]
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