Acknowledging the impact of pandemic on students My name is Maya Eichorn, and you may have recently seen me on the cover of this newspaper. I would like to first thank the staff of this paper for their incredible work and very kind decision to highlight the achievements of my colleagues and me. Secondly, I […]
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Community News – Art Guild of the Kennebunks presents Summer Celebration of Art
Summer Celebration of Art exhibit scheduled The Art Guild of the Kennebunks begins its summer season of exhibits and sales with a Summer Celebration of Art, featuring more than 100 works of art and prints. The event takes place Friday and Saturday, July 19-20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, July 21, noon-4 p.m. at the […]
Kennebunkport Historical Society to host session on Great Fire of 1887
The Kennebunkport Historical Society announced that it will host a lecture on the Great Fire of 1887, delivered by guest lecturer and local firefighter, James M. Stockman. The lecture will be held at the Town House School at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, and 7 p.m. Thursday, July 25. The event is free and open […]
Band and the run
Nearly 400 participants negotiated the heat and humidity on the evening of July 12 and took part in the Kennebunk Free Library 27th Edition 5K. The race featured entrants from 12 states, British Columbia and the District of Columbia. Kennebunk resident Steve Fritzche took home first place overall with a time of 17 minutes, 19 […]
Sirois resigns from KHS principal post
Sirois will take a position in Newfield.
Community News – Brick Store Museum unveils public mural
Museum unveils public mural Cookie Davis, a local artist and laborer, is featured in the Brick Store Museum’s current exhibition, Bold Visions: The Folk Art of Collyer Bowen and Cookie Davis. Davis, a trans person, was well-known in the Kennebunks, and particularly Cape Porpoise, for painting murals and personal paintings of the area’s landscape. In […]
UNE program seeks to enhance teacher workforce
Maine high school students from Kittery to Gray, and several points in between, visited the University of New England’s coastal Biddeford campus June 24-27 to participate in the School of Education’s second Future Teachers of Maine Summer Institute. This year saw 34 high schoolers participate, more than double the number of last year’s inaugural summit. […]
Opinion – Higher electricity bills are coming; here’s what to do
Electric bills will increase again on July 1. Just when ratepayers thought they could breathe a sigh of relief based on last winter’s decrease in the Standard Offer price, here we go again with more increases. For a typical CMP residential customer (using 550 kWh per month), the monthly bill is expected to increase by […]