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March 8, 2022

Our Sustainable City – Heat pumps are the home heating (and cooling) solution

Last week, we discussed the importance of beneficial electrification, which is the transition from fossil fuel-based home appliances to more efficient electric equivalents. Today we are discussing a key component of beneficial electrification: heat pumps. Modern heat pumps provide homes with reliable and renewable heating, cooling and dehumidifying. Heat pumps use approximately 50 percent less […]
Published
March 8, 2022

Oldies Dance Group posts top fundraising year

The Oldies Dance Group announced posted its biggest fundraising year to date in 2021 while raising money for the Ronald McDonald House of Portland. The group made the announcement in a March 6 news release. In conducting its Rock ‘n’ Roll Oldies Benefit Dance in December after an absence of more than two years because […]
Published
March 8, 2022

Guest Column – Of fear and conspiracy

I’m sure you’ve seen it in documentaries of birds and animals living in the wild. The doe, the fox, rabbit or bird cautiously approaches the edge of the stream or pond, then looks all around, to the left, to the right, and only then lowers its head to drink. And then, quickly, lifts its head […]
Published
March 8, 2022

Community News – Bibber Memorial Chapel purchases Alfred funeral home

Bibber Memorial Chapel of Kennebunk, in a March 2 news release, announced that it purchased Autumn Green Funeral Home on Feb. 4. Bibber’s is an 84-year-old independent, family-owned business serving York County. Sixteen years ago, funeral director Tammy L. Chadbourne realized the need for the Alfred community to have its own funeral home. With the […]
Published
March 7, 2022

Honor Roll – Kennebunk High School

Quarter 2 Freshmen High honors: Max Andrews, James Bertus-Trudo, Addison Carbone, Quinn Chapman, Finneas Coldreck, Olivia Cutone, Gabrielle D’Orso-Palmer, Emily Dube, William Eagleson, Jacob Eon, Isabel Esch, Otto Fontaine, Anna Fox, Berk Glidden, Samuel Haley, Noah Hammond, Delaney Hanson, Skylar Holder, Simone Houdlette, Camryn Houle, Virginia Howell, Emilia Ilyas, Tru Jarvis, Isaac Jensen, Ava Kane, […]
Published
March 3, 2022

Service Notice – Dianne Hunt

Dianne Christian Hunt, 64, died Sunday, July 18, 2021, at York Hospital. Friends are invited to visit with the family 1 to 4 p.m. with a service of celebration at 2 p.m., with Carolyn Lambert officiating, Saturday, March 26, 2022, at the Kennebunkport Legion Hall, 102 Main St., Kennebunkport. Light refreshments will be served. All […]
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March 3, 2022

A Window on the Past – John P. Lovell Company and superintendent, Lyman H. Cobb

Let’s take a look at the John P. Lovell Company in Ferry Village. In last week’s column, we left off in the fall of 1895. The company had just acquired the idle factory building that had first been built as a plush mill. Workers were inside setting up equipment and making tools that would be […]
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March 3, 2022

Guest Column – It’s hip to be Dock Square

Many ask, “Where’s Dock Square?” but nobody asks, “Where’s the dock?” because there isn’t one, as far as I can tell. Some say, in the beginning, it was called Duck Square, and you can still see a duck or two on the Kennebunk River, an occasional blue heron or even a clutch of cormorants. But […]
Published
March 3, 2022

Our Sustainable City – Beneficial electrification

The last couple of weeks, we focused on the benefits of solar on both a residential and municipal level. This week, the South Portland Sustainability Office has beneficial electrification on the brain. Beneficial electrification – including sola r– helps us achieve our climate action goals while also ensuring home comfort, affordability and efficiency. One Climate […]
Published
March 2, 2022

Community News – Holy Spirit Parish students assemble care kits for homeless

Middle school students in faith formation classes at Holy Spirit Parish (St. Martha Church in Kennebunk and St. Mary Church in Wells) will collect and provide necessary items for a group in need. The Holy Spirit Parish Middle School Outreach Project is underway, with the students collecting items (through March 6) to assemble care kits […]

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