In July, many of you learned from me here or elsewhere about my recent health challenge. I am happy to report that the surgery to remove a benign meningioma (tumor of the lining of the brain) was successful. I’m feeling good, with a bit of rest and recovery to go, and a positive and healthy […]
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Community News – Museum offers fall walking tours
The Brick Store Museum offers two scheduled walking tours of Kennebunk during the fall. Tours of Kennebunk’s Historic District, the first in the state of Maine, run along Summer Street on Thursdays and Saturdays at noon; tours of Kennebunk Beach, following the development of the tourist boom, occur on Saturdays at 9 a.m. Running every […]
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Walk provides Branch Brook information
Those interested in learning about Branch Brook, the river that provides drinking water for area residents and habitat for a diversity of wildlife species, will have an opportunity on Thursday, Sept. 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The one-mile walk begins on Maguire Road on the Kennebunk Plains and is offered by the Branch Brook […]
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Maine Professional Drivers Association plans meal for members
The Maine Professional Drivers Association will be hold an appreciation event, in conjunction with the Maine State Police, for truck drivers on Monday, Sept. 12 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to kick off National Truck Driver Appreciation Week. The event will be held at the northbound scale facility on Interstate 95 in York. Volunteers […]
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Guest Column – Priorities
Many are the reasons why people go to college. For some, it’s the gateway to a life-long career, for others it’s a path to a job and money and power or an escape from mom and dad or that nasty kid down the street, while for others it’s a four-year holding pattern with beer, pizza, […]
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Guest Column – Death be not proud (or even a little cheeky)
Sitting at a bar eating pizza with my wife and chatting with a friend from an earlier time in my life, I learned that I was a likely candidate for a feature obituary when I die. The friend, who I hadn’t run into in years, oversaw the obituary department at the state’s largest newspaper, and […]
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Community News – Pearson and MacLeod go to the movies
The next Mid-Week Music concerts will see Kennebunk musicians Dana Pearson and Andy MacLeod performing Music from the Movies. The shows at the Kennebunkport Historical Society’s Town House School at 135 North St. will be held Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m., followed by an encore on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. Songs will […]
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Guest Column – The best and the worst
When they asked me what was the best and the worst I had ever seen during my many years and many miles, I didn’t have to think for long on either one. In 1954-55 I spent nine months as an exchange student at the University of Leiden, Holland, the Netherlands. I rented a room on […]
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Community News – Animal Welfare Society accepts Blaze Brewing donation
The Animal Welfare Society recently accepted a gift from Blaze Brewing Company of Biddeford. Meet York County, a local social media promoter, and Blaze collaborated on a limited release beer – Bark Cream Ale – to support AWS. “Mike Nicholas from Meet York County approached us last year and asked us to collaborate on a […]
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Guest Column – Marie
The problem was getting to work from my house, near Evergreen Landing on the northwest corner of Peaks Island, all the half mile or so along Island Avenue past Trefethen and the yacht club, with its flotilla of a half dozen tiny turnabout sailboats, past the one-room school and the windowless, brick telephone exchange building […]