KENNEBUNK — The Kennebunk Free Library welcomes children and parents to Imagination Station where kids can let their imagination run wild. This is an exciting program series at the Kennebunk Free Library for all ages – from 3 to 103. November’s Imagination Station: Rubber Bands! will be from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9. From musical instruments to car propulsion, the […]
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Garden dedication honors Kennebunk artist
BIDDEFORD — Longtime Kennebunk resident and local artist, Mary Burnett was recognized Monday, Oct. 23 with a garden dedicated in her honor at St. Louis Child Development Center in Biddeford. Presiding over the dedication was the Rev. Claude Gendreau who blessed the garden following the planting of a butterfly bush in Mary’s honor. The festivities […]
Wells a capella group bound for NYC
WELLS — The Wells High School a capella group may be new, but their voices are bringing them to big places, and fast. The vocal group, which was formed just last year, has been selected to attend a group a capella performance, titled “Total Vocal,” at the Lincoln Center in New York City in mid-March. […]
Film ‘The Sacred Cod’ to screen in Kennebunk
KENNEBUNK — The film, “The Sacred Cod” will be shown at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28, at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, on Main Street in Kennebunk. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the event is free and open to the public. The film is co-sponsored by the Sierra Club of Maine and the […]
Church to present Hymn Sing and Hymn Preludes concert
KENNEBUNKPORT — The First Congregational Church of Kennebunkport, 141 North St., invites the public to attend a Hymn Sing and Hymn Preludes Concert on Sun., Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. Joyce Painter Rice, Music Director at First Church, will accompany the hymns and play hymn arrangements on the organ and piano. The Hymn Sing is […]
KFL Genealogy group to meet
KENNEBUNK — The Kennebunk Free Library Genealogy Group will host Paul Klebauer atthe Kennebunk Free Library at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 4. Klebauer will discuss how digital records can be accessed now that FamilySearch has ended its microfilm program. FamilySearch ended preserving records through microfilm this September after doing so since 1938. Their goal is to have all […]
Kennebunkport extends absentee voting, registration hours
KENNEBUNKPORT — The Kennebunkport Town Clerk/Registrar of Voters will hold extra hours at the Kennebunkport Town Hall from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28 and Wednesday Nov. 1 to conduct absentee voting, to register any person eligible to vote and to accept any enrollment/address changes.
17th Annual Classic Film Series features ‘The Jazz Singer’
OGUNQUIT — The Ogunquit Performing Arts begins its 2017-2018 Classic Film Series with a screening of The Jazz Singer at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5 at the Dunaway Center, 23 School St. in Ogunquit. Films are shown on a wall-sized screen; admission, parking and popcorn are free. The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical […]
UNH students to help address road drainage in Wells
WELLS — Road drainage on Webhannet Road has long been an issue for city management in Wells. Now, UNH students will try mitigating the problem. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of New Hampshire Engineering School have paired up on a project to help the Town of Wells with issues regarding […]
Support the troops
I have never been to war. I wasn’t alive in the 1960s. But last month, I watched every minute of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War” on PBS to try to understand what it was like. So many helicopters, I marveled, flying low over that emerald landscape. Those soft rice paddies, that lush […]