I had a life. I had interests and passions and purpose. I had responsibilities. I had dreams. Then a pair of wrens (Harold and Pauline) took up residence in our backyard and my normal life suddenly came to an end. I became a voyeur. A Peeping Tom. Not unlike the neighbor-obsessed Jimmy Stewart character in […]
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Blueberry Festival is back, live and in person
Savor the flavor of summer at the 45th annual Blueberry Festival and Craft Fair. The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday July 24 at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk. Kennebunk’s oldest continuous fair, the Blueberry Festival is back live and in person after a COVID-19 year of Zooming on-line. […]
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Obituary – Shirley Coppola
Shirley Coppola died June 25, 2021, at her home on Goose Rocks Beach, surrounded by her loving children after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born on Oct. 27, 1936, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Shirley was the daughter of the late Melvin French and Katherine Bailey Whiffen. She grew up in Haverhill and graduated from Haverhill […]
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Obituary – Gretchen Erb
Gretchen A. (Nunan) Erb, 76, of Texas and Cape Porpoise, died peacefully Wednesday evening, June 30, 2021, at her son’s home following a battle with cancer. Gretchen was born March 21, 1945, in Biddeford, the daughter of Raymond and Ardelle (Eaton) Nunan. She is a 1963 graduate of Kennebunk High School and further attended Holy […]
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Community News – The New School welcomes new students
All the world is a classroom — especially during a pandemic when a virus changed education as we know it — and The New School has been able to adapt, react and continue its curriculum while helping students find their voice. “Our doors stayed open all during Covid,” said The New School Board member Sharon […]
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Obituary – Norma Little
Norma E. Little, 77, of Kennebunkport, born June 12, 1943, in West Baldwin, Maine, passed away on May 28, 2021, after a brief illness, and is now reunited with her heavenly father. Known to all as Nanny, Norma welcomed everyone into her life. Over the years she took special joy in organizing gatherings and serving […]
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Obituary – Karen Kinsella
Karen Ann Kinsella, 58, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, raised in Andover, Massachusetts, summered in Kennebunk, and a current resident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of June 29, 2021. Karen lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Virginia, and made and kept friends far and wide. Karen’s […]
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Obituary – Judith Finnegan
Judith Gail (Barnes) Finnegan, 80, widower of her beloved “Maine Man” James Finnegan, to whom she was married for 35 years, passed away on June 29, 2021. She was born Oct. 6, 1940 on Alton Street in Manchester, Connecticut, to Sylvester and Dorothy Barnes. Judith grew up with a very active family life. They camped, […]
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Letters to the Editor
Don’t usurp property owners’ rights To the editor, As a 40-plus-year South Portland property owner, I strongly object to the recent city government’s heavy-handed efforts to take over some of the rights of private property owners. The city’s interest in tree growth is a fine idea and should be directed to public property. However, there […]
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Honor Roll – Kennebunk High School
FOURTH QUARTER FRESHMEN HIGH HONORS: Isabella Awbrey, Keara Battagliese, Emma Belanger, Lillian Belanger, Emmett Benezra, Ebben Bertus-Trudo, Oliver Boxall, Morgan Buco, McKenzie Caron, Knox Christopher, Ashleigh Cluff, Anson Cox, George Cutone, Dylan Cyr, Dakota Dow, Quinn Downing, Jillian Elkins, Turner Fadiman, Karl Frost, Yancy Gil Trejo, Ava Hackley, Samuel Harris, Jake Hebert, Danielle Hersom, Robert […]
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