Marianne R. “Mimi” Caron, 84 years, longtime resident of Summer Street Kennebunk died Friday April 30, 2021, at the Cedars in Portland, after a long illness. Mimi was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1936, a daughter of Wallace E. Richmond and Dorothea Flagg Smith and attended Gould Academy and graduated from Waynflete School […]
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Letters to the Editor
Mousam River dams’-eye view To the editor, Hello readers, Mousam River here. Well, there certainly has been a lot of activity and discussion about what to do with my portion of the river from the Dane Perkins Dam to the Kesslen Dam. There’s been the Wright-Pierce Dam Report, public input meetings, newspaper articles, a GZA […]
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Mother’s Day (and a meal) at the museum
Kennebunk’s Brick Store Museum offers extended hours on May 9.
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A Window on the Past – D.W. Clark and the Clark and Chaplin Ice Company
It’s fascinating to look at the ice business in the years before electric refrigeration. From the harvesting of ice from ponds and rivers, the storage of ice in large ice houses filled with sawdust, and the eventual delivery of ice blocks by the “ice man,” right into the ice boxes in people’s homes, it was […]
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Community News – Kennebunk Savings earns ‘Recovery Friendly Workplace’ status
Kennebunk Savings is following through on years of work researching and funding substance use disorder prevention and recovery efforts by participating in New Hampshire’s Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative. The initiative encourages employees, employers and communities to collaborate by creating positive change and eliminating barriers for those impacted by substance use disorder. “Helping our communities thrive […]
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Community News – Veterans’ association announces Memorial Day plans
The South Portland War Veterans’ Memorial Association announced last week that it has canceled plans for a Memorial Day parade. The group applied for a parade permit with the city of South Portland on March 31. “We received a reply from the city COVID Committee that stated, ‘Due to concerns about crowd density and crowd […]
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Obituary – Keith Mills
Keith Allen Mills, 50, of Arundel, passed away on Sunday April 25, 2021, in Kennebunkport. Keith was born April 10, 1971, in Biddeford to Mr. Jon A. Mills and Mrs. Sharon Langlois Mills. He attended Biddeford High School, graduating in 1989. He then attended Southern Maine Vocational Technical College, earning an associate’s degree in criminal […]
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Our Sustainable City – How to grow a healthy, organic lawn
Organic landcare is a systems approach that seeks to mimic nature. It depends first and foremost on the principle: Feed the soil, not the plant. The soil is alive with billions of microorganisms that need to be fed organic matter to be healthy. Healthy soil will grow healthy plants that will be better able to […]
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Seashore Trolley Museum ready for 2021 opening
The museum begins its 82nd season on Saturday, May 1.
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Obituary – Thomas Kezar
Thomas (Todd) Joseph Kezar, 70, of Cape Porpoise, lost his battle with ALS April 23, journeying home to be with the Lord, joining his parents Thomas F. Kezar and Josephine D’Ascanio Kezar. Growing up here on the ocean, he loved to fish. After finishing school he spent a couple of years fishing and scalloping up […]
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