Kennebunk Savings recently awarded a $50,000 grant to the Families First Capital Campaign for its new Federally Qualified Health Center, now open on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth. The nonprofit purchased a building in Greenleaf Woods and retrofitted the facility, which also includes SOS Recovery Community Organization’s first outpost in Portsmouth. Federally Qualified Health Centers serve […]
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From Augusta – Celebrating 50 years of Title IX and reflecting on the past
While the Supreme Court and some states across the country are stripping away people’s rights and denying them access to opportunity, this year, our nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX being signed into law. The landmark action requires everyone, regardless of their gender, to have the same access to education and opportunity. At […]
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Guest Column – Shopping
The grocery store is my favorite venue, because she walks on ahead and lets me follow pushing the shopping cart, while she puts things in it, and I can not only use the cart as a walker to keep from falling down, but command some respect from smaller people, and occasionally have a chance to […]
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Guest Column – Questions related to global warming
I’m a retired pastor, but my undergraduate degree was environmental science (Penn State, ’74). Back then, water vapor was considered the prominent green house gas. Several years ago, I wondered, where has it gone? I took an afternoon to read and found articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, American Chemistry Society and NASA. All said, it is […]
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Community News – Vintage base ball coming to Parsons Field
The Brick Store Museum will host a vintage base ball game between the Dirigo Base Ball Club of Maine vs. Mudville (of Holliston, Massachusetts) at noon on Saturday, Aug. 6. The game will be played on Kennebunk’s Parsons Field, at the corner of Dane and Park streets. Tickets to the game are $5 per person, […]
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From Augusta – Thank you to a ‘warm community’ of friends and neighbors
Elizabeth Taylor. Sheryl Crow. Mary Tyler Moore. And you can add me, Representative Traci Gere, to that list. No, I haven’t suddenly become famous, although I have been known to belt out “Soak Up the Sun” on a beautiful Maine summer day. Rather, I have joined the list of people diagnosed with a meningioma, a […]
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Guest Column – Wiffle ball tournament is a home run
The Tommy McNamara Charitable Foundation Wiffle ball tournament is a home run, nine years later. What did Tommy love most about his summers and Kennebunk? Family and friends, of course, and he loved playing Wiffle ball with his best friends in his backyard or at “The Hose.” So, after the tragic loss of Tommy in […]
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August’s featured exhibition at Speers Gallery is announced
Kennebunk Free Library announced its next Speers Gallery exhibit, Peace of My Mind, by Madeleine P. Hopkins, opening Monday, Aug. 1. The exhibit is a visual memoir of her art and prose, and consists of 33 landscape paintings or prints coupled with the written word. Hopkins uses a combination of oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel. […]
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Guest Column – Word up
I was surprised when a friend, who had been reading my guest columns, suggested that I was a very wordy person, and seemed to love using as many words as possible. My first thought was that he was criticizing me for using too many words, and my second thought was that he was complimenting me […]
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Community News – Blueberry Festival is Saturday, July 23
Pirate presentation planned at Kennebunk Free Library Author James Nelson will visit Kennebunk Free Library on Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 6:30 p.m. to talk about all things pirate. Nelson was born and raised in Maine, and for six years worked on-board traditional sailing ships before launching a writing career in 1994. He has since written […]
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