Dan King

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A Window on the Past – The Broadway Plate Yard and South Portland Planing Mill

by Kathryn Onos DiPhilippo

Let’s take a look at the area along the edge of the Pleasantdale neighborhood that was formerly known as the Broadway Plate Yard during World War II. The land is located between Evans Street and Lincoln Street Extension (between Amato’s and AutoZone on Broadway). If you look at the site, you’ll notice that a train […]

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Letters to the Editor

Make ordinance gender neutral To the editor, Regarding the proposed ordinance on nude swimming and public indecency by the city of South Portland: I applaud the effort to make the language inclusive. However, in this case it only serves to expand discrimination against women’s bodies to include female identifying persons. I ask why women and […]

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Community News – Maine schools receive ecomaine grants

Maine single-sort recycling company ecomaine announced more than $9,500 in grant funding to seven recipients of its 2022 School Recycling Grants, which are designed to raise recycling and composting awareness in schools and communities, and to help schools implement more efficient recycling programs or add composting to their waste collection. Caleb Hemphill, chair of ecomaine’s […]

Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies

Letters to the Editor

Addressing the climate crisis To the editor, For Kennebunk voters worried about the unfolding climate crisis, Article 19 on the referendum warrant is an opportunity to officially register your concern. Passage of this article would simply require that the select board send letters to our elected state and federal officials – up to the president […]

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Community News – Ham radio demonstration set for June 25-26

The New England Radio Discussion Society will demonstrate emergency communications during the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise June 25-26 on the south yard of The New School in Kennebunk. Since 1933, amateur radio operators have established temporary amateur radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur […]

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From Augusta – Reaffirming Maine’s commitment to its students and teachers

by Joe Rafferty

This April, Gov. Janet Mills signed the supplemental budget into law, just one day after both chambers of the Legislature voted to enact it. This budget contains many measures that will do a lot of good for Maine people. As a former educator and current chair of the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, I […]

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Obituary – Maude Banta

Maude Erskine Banta was born on Aug. 13, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to James Douglas Erskine and Marguerite Maxwell Ogilvie. She was the oldest of three sisters and was raised in a loving multi-generational home. She was a lifelong Dodgers fan even after they left her hometown of Brooklyn. Maude graduated from Packer Institute […]

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