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  • Published
    April 12, 2023

    Nature Notes – Connecting with the natural world

    This is the start of a new monthly column and a partnership between the Scarborough Leader and the Scarborough Land Trust. Our desire is to connect readers to the natural world. Over time we will explore seasonal observations, natural history, outdoor recreation and access, farming and more. We hope you will join us each month […]

  • Published
    April 12, 2023

    Community News – Faerie house exhibition returns to Kennebunk Free Library

    Kennebunk Free Library invites participants for its annual faerie house exhibition. Faerie houses will be accepted at the library April 19-May 2. Participants should build a house with a base no larger than 14 inches by 14 inches, and no taller than 30 inches and use natural materials only. There will be a selection of […]

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    April 12, 2023

    Our Sustainable City – An Earth Day event for everyone

    April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day by millions across our planet, as a reminder of the modern environmental movement of the 1960s. Today, Earth Day represents the opportunity for people to mobilize in the name of global environmental action. In many ways, Earth Day has taken on a life of its own, creating space […]

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    April 12, 2023

    Community News – South Portland Land Trust hosts Earth Day activities

    South Portland Land Trust will host a weekend full of activities honoring Earth Day, with its signature citywide Earth Day Cleanup happening on Saturday, April 22. The rain date is Sunday, April 23. The land trust has hosted the event for 30 years, bringing community members together and cleaning up the city’s open spaces, parks, […]

  • Published
    April 10, 2023

    Obituary – Rita Payheur

    Rita Therese (Desrosiers) Payheur, 90, passed away peacefully April 8, 2023, at home surrounded by loved ones. Rita was born on Dec. 14, 1932 in Biddeford; the daughter of Alfred and Amanda Desrosiers. From a very early age, Rita was bright and curious. The oldest of eight children, she helped her mom raise the many […]

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    April 10, 2023

    From Augusta – A responsible budget of needs

    Thursday, March 30 was a late but successful night at the State House. We passed a continuing services budget to pay the bills, ensure good governance and honor our commitment to support our communities. This Legislature, we are approaching the biennial budget in two phases to ensure that we keep the lights on and avoid […]

  • Published
    April 6, 2023

    Letters to the Editor

    Protect Maine elections To the editor, I hope you will join me in urging our Kennebunk state legislators to support a bill to protect Maine elections that is now before the Maine Legislature. The bill would prohibit foreign governments from spending money in Maine referendum campaigns. Given the widespread, bipartisan support for this issue, the […]

  • Published
    April 5, 2023

    Guest Column – Chatterbox vs. Chatbot: May the best man/machine win

    You could call me a chatterbox. Not in the traditional sense, like a blabbermouth (or a quidnunc, one of my favorite words). More in the sense that I write a lot. At one point in my life I was writing so many newspaper columns that a friend of mine suggested I was the human equivalent […]

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    April 5, 2023

    Guest Column – History repeats?

    History Repeats? Repeats what? Well, it repeats patterns, but not the details. The city of Moscow is a good example. First written mention is in year 1147 as a small village situated on the Moscow River, which flows into the much larger Volga River. About 300 years after Kiyiv is first noted in The Russian […]

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    April 5, 2023

    From Augusta – Maine Legislature passes a responsible budget of needs, not wants

    The Maine Legislature has been working hard. We recently passed a continuing services budget, which is a baseline budget that funds all services currently enacted in law. That means that most of the initiatives being funded by this budget are measures that passed in the 130th Legislature or earlier, often with strong, bipartisan support. It […]

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