WELLS  ─  The Parent Teacher Student Association for Wells Elementary School is holding their only ‘All-4-Kids Consignment Sale’ for this school year on Friday Nov. 2 and Saturday Nov. 3. Friday’s sale hours are from 4:30 to 6 p.m.  Saturday sale hours are from 8 a.m. to noon. Parents and others in the general public […]

WELLS – Designing Women, a non-profit volunteer corporation that works directly with organizations that benefit women and families in local communities, will host their 2nd annual Wells show at the Wells Activity Center, 113 Sanford Road in Wells. The show will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27. More than 20 local, […]

WELLS — On Oct. 2, the Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit brought the community together to honor two outstanding citizens of each town, Hope Moody Shelley, Wells Volunteer of the Year, and Richard W. Perkins, Poet Laureate of Ogunquit. The organization opened its doors for their Annual Meeting with the program “A Celebration of Poetry […]

KENNEBUNKPORT — In early November, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance presents a flash nonfiction workshop with critically acclaimed writer Mira Ptacin. Winner of the 2017 Maine Literary Award for Memoir, Ptacin will offer discussion and exercises to open writers’ eyes to new possibilities and to help them create dynamic micro-essays in this three-hour workshop, “The […]

KENNEBUNKPORT — The congregation of the First Congregational Church of Kennebunkport is very happy to announce the arrival of their settled minister, Rev. Charlotte E. Y. Bell. She began her new position on Oct. 2 with office hours at the church and conducted her first service at the church on Sunday, Oct. 7. The church’s Search […]

WELLS —  For over a decade, small groups of Wells Elementary School students have been invited to the principal’s office to lead the entire student body and staff in the morning Pledge of Allegiance. As with the school’s previous principals, students now walk to Principal April Noble’s office to recite the pledge over the school’s […]

KENNEBUNK – Last week, the Animal Welfare Society accepted 15 cats from hurricane-ravished Florida. After the long journey, the cats will be assessed at the AWS Community Veterinary Clinic, receive any necessary vaccines, treatments and surgeries and go up for adoption by late October at the AWS Adoption Center, 46 Holland Road in Kennebunk. The cats […]

OGUNQUIT — It’s been a novel, a stage play, and an opera. So when movies first appeared a century ago, it was only a matter of time before they tackled ‘Faust,’ the tale of a man who consigns his soul to the devil to obtain power in the present. At the height of the silent […]