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  • Published
    February 1, 2023

    Business News – Seacoast Eat Local seeks submissions for photo contest

    Seacoast Eat Local’s annual photo contest is back. The publication is seeking submissions of photos that celebrate local food in the Seacoast. The winning photo will be the cover of the 2023 Seacoast Harvest. The organization is also offering the winning photographer a Seacoast Eat Local T-shirt and all who enter a chance to win […]

  • Published
    February 1, 2023

    Letters to the Editor

    Kudos to power district team To the editor, Recently we found ourselves without electricity during the heavy wet snowstorm. Certainly there must be someone at fault as my power was not restored instantly. Yes, that’s it, Kennebunk Light and Power is to blame. After all, I must have my working coffeemaker and giant TV; blinding […]

  • Published
    February 1, 2023

    Community News – Kennebunk Free Library to host ‘working alongside animals’ program

    Melissa McCue-McGrath returns to Kennebunk Free Library to walk all ages through the many ways in which people can work alongside animals. The program is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8. McCue-McGrath will introduce arson detection dogs used to solve criminal cases in the fire departments across the country, archeologist assistant dogs who have […]

  • Published
    January 31, 2023

    Obituary – Maria Nieuwkerk

    Maria (Riet) Nieuwkerk, 95, of Kennebunkport, passed away suddenly on Jan. 25, 2023, within days after her celebrating her 95th birthday with her children and grandchildren. Riet was born on Jan. 10, 1928, in Amsterdam, Holland. She spent her early years in Amsterdam during the German occupation and survived the starvation winter of 1944. After […]

  • Published
    January 26, 2023

    Obituary – Barbara Dolce

    Barbara L. Dolce of Kennebunk passed away on Jan. 25, 2023, at Gosnell House in Scarborough. She was 79. The daughter of Lorraine and James Williams, she was born on April 15, 1943 in the Bronx. Barbara spent decades as a nurse, focusing on working with the elderly and ultimately serving as a nursing home […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2023

    Guest Column – The tough women of southern Maine

    In bringing you tales of the tough women of southern Maine, it would be a serious mistake to skip over my mother’s example. She believed in three things; the importance of one’s identity and place in the history of our kind, the importance of taking action to demonstrate the weight of one’s dedication to that […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2023

    Our Sustainable City – Signing off

    It has been a little over a year since I began writing weekly sustainability columns in the Sentry. My position in the South Portland Sustainability Office was my first introduction into sustainability and climate work outside of academia, and I was eager to learn more in the context and comfort of something I already loved: […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2023

    Community News – Brick Store Museum welcomes volunteers

    Volunteering at the Brick Store Museum in downtown Kennebunk helps to illustrate the history, art and cultures of the region for all ages. “The museum employs a very small staff and depends on the volunteer spirit of the community to fuel programs, operations, outreach and passion for what the museum does,” said Executive Director Cynthia […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2023

    Community News – Brick Store Museum welcomes volunteers

    Volunteering at the Brick Store Museum in downtown Kennebunk helps to illustrate the history, art and cultures of the region for all ages. “The museum employs a very small staff and depends on the volunteer spirit of the community to fuel programs, operations, outreach and passion for what the museum does,” said Executive Director Cynthia […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2023

    A Window on the Past – What’s that smell? Casco Fisheries and Deep Sea Products arrived in the shipyard

    We take a look this week at two more seafood companies that operated in the former West Yard of the South Portland shipyard after the end of World War II. We’ve written previously about the first three seafood companies that arrived in 1947: Quality House Specialties sardine cannery, George J. Kern’s seafood company, and LobLure, […]

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