Editor, Thanks to the Journal Tribune for its recent story about students returning marine life they studied during the school year to tidal pools in Kennebunk. This was an interesting topic and it was refreshing to read about students doing something important and meaningful for a weekend activity. We are all surrounded by nature and […]
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David Shribman: The president courts double trouble
This month, President Donald Trump — the great innovator, the great instigator, above all the great disrupter — conjured a new tool of tumult: Take one highly incendiary issue and employ it as a battering ram to win concessions on an even more contentious matter. By using tariffs — on an escalating schedule that would […]
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Village Idiot: Dead Mall Walking
I just got back from an hour-and-a-half drive to the big city to pick up a few things at the mall that I couldn’t get delivered from Amazon. It was noon, and the giant parking lot was nearly empty. Was it some national holiday that I’d forgotten about? Was there some special event going on […]
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Rachel Lovejoy: The Story of a Very Special Tree
“Why are there trees I never walk under But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass If you’ve ever gone to Rotary Park in Biddeford, you’ve probably noticed the lovely trees that line one side of the entrance road. They stand back a few feet back from a widely-spaced border […]
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Ellen Birkett Linden: What does it mean to teach peace?
Depending on your age, people associate peace with protesting the Vietnam War, songs, movies and marches of the 1960’s, the time before 9/11, quiet getaway retreats, or their yoga class. So whatdoes it mean to teach peace and how would one do it? I think the why is obvious. I have been teaching all my life – first more than […]
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In Praise of Street Trees
Editor, The recent Parsons Beach Road controversy over replacing many of the existing trees along this historic alleyway prompts reflection on the benefits and costs, generally, of street trees throughout Kennebunk and towns in southern Maine. Kennebunk residents have learned through this process the importance in maintaining transparent involvement of the Town Tree Committee, affected […]
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Revenue generation, not parking control
Editor, I do not often have the occasion or need to drive through Main Street in downtown Biddeford. Today I did, and I am appalled at the street construction going on. I can only call this the duplicitous other shoe dropping from the master parking plan. When the parking plan was laid out and explained […]
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Paul Kengor: Supreme Court’s cross case and religious freedom
One of the major Supreme Court decisions we’ll soon hear about is the Bladensburg cross case. This is the case where secularists are demanding the removal of a large cross that serves as the centerpiece of a veterans’ memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland. The “Peace Cross” was erected in 1925 by a local post of the […]
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Melissa MartIn: A horrible mistake or a horrible crime?
How can a parent mistakenly leave a baby in a car? Accidents happen. But how does a parent work the entire day and forget his/her most precious gift is strapped into a carseat—trapped inside a sweltering vehicle? Did you know that 2018 was the deadliest year in US history for child hot car deaths? In […]
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Home Country: Heaven in small doses
Steve looked out from the turret of his cabin and watched the sun set behind the mountain. Branding is over for the spring, and he was able to get away from the ranch for a few days, so here he was, in his private castle, sipping private coffee, looking down at his private horse eating […]
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