In “Walden” Henry David Thoreau wrote, “We can never get enough of nature.” In Maine, we are lucky that we get to enjoy all four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. Sometimes, we get a little of each season in a single day. Right now, though, everyone’s eager to get outside and soak up the […]
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Guest Column – Spicing up my life
I read in The New York Times that there’s an “unprecedented shortage” of sriracha, a fiery red-hot sauce that adds not only a jolt of heat but a punch of flavor. This information upset me. In fact, I panicked. It was a crisis, a true disaster. Not only for thousands of Vietnamese restaurants, where sriracha […]
Kennebunk Free Library announces July’s featured artist
Kennebunk Free Library announced its next Speers Gallery exhibit, Up Close and Beyond, by Patricia Sevigny-Higgins. The exhibit opens July 1 and the public is invited to attend an artist reception on Friday, July 15 from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibit is an accumulation of four different series of paintings done when the lockdown […]
Guest Column – Paradise lost, serenity found
Over the two decades I’ve battled Mother Nature to reclaim my wooded and marshy yard, landscaping it into something habitable, I’ve learned a lot of life lessons. Lesson number one: Mama Nature fights back, she fights hard and she fights to win. While I have only a few short years left on this great, green […]
Community News – Center for Grieving Children plans anniversary event
The Center for Grieving Children, a nonprofit organization that provides peer support services for grieving children, teens and families of Maine, announced a fundraising soiree on July 19 at Vinegar Hill Music Theatre to celebrate the start of its 35th anniversary year. The event will begin with a cocktail hour from 6 to 7 p.m. […]
Honor Roll – Kennebunk High School
Kennebunk High School Quarter 4 Freshmen High Honors: Sasha Altschule, Max Andrews, Emilie Barter, James Bertus-Trudo, Addison Carbone, Quinn Chapman, Finneas Coldreck, Gabrielle D’Orso-Palmer, Isabella Donnery, Emily Dube, William Eagleson, Jacob Eon, Kelsey Ewing, Otto Fontaine, Anna Fox, Mekhi Gillard, Quinlen Gleason, Berk Glidden, Samuel Haley, Delaney Hanson, Eva Havey, Skylar Holder, Simone Houdlette, Camryn […]
A Voice from the Past – Nancie Hackett Thompson
This week’s entry is from the diary of Nancie Hackett Thompson in spring 1869. Nancie was the third wife of Nathaniel Lord Thompson, who owned a large shipbuilding yard in Kennebunk. The loss of his previous two wives left Nathaniel with four young children prior to his marriage to Nancie in 1859. At the time […]
Guest Column – Good parenting, or whatever
It’s not so complicated for the Mouse, he said, when I asked Nonney if he had any thoughts on parenting or whatever they might call it. He said, “We just keep telling them that they are wonderful, that we love them, and we hug and kiss them, and tell them to stay clean, don’t make […]
Business News – Heart to Heart offers more than a ride
Kennebunk Savings donation bolsters transportation service.
Community News – Brick Store Museum hosts Cambodian artist
Thanks to the partnership of Khmer families in Kennebunk, the Brick Store Museum welcomes Cambodian ceramic artist Yary Livan, with an exhibition of his traditional ceramics. Livan is one of only three known Master Ceramists to have survived the 1975 Khmer Rouge genocide, and the only one known to be living in the United States. […]