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    December 21, 2022

    Our Sustainable City – Holiday waste how-tos

    As the holiday season wraps up – no pun intended – knowing what to do with the abundance of waste you accrued over the course of the season is important. Wish-cycling, or tossing something in your recycling bin with a bit too much optimism, is extremely detrimental to the recycling process. Throwing away your holiday […]

  • Published
    December 19, 2022

    York County EMA to close vaccine clinic

    SANFORD – York County Emergency Management Agency, in a Dec. 19 news release, announced that it will close its vaccine center at The Center for Shopping in Sanford on Dec. 29. The clinic opened in March of 2021 through a partnership with Southern Maine Health Care and the Maine CDC. The agency took over its […]

  • Published
    December 19, 2022

    Animal Welfare Society to host pet portraits program

    Animal Welfare Society Youth Programs will introduce Animals in the Arts, a new humane education program for students who combine an interest in animals and art. Watercolor Pet Portraits will be held Dec. 27-28 in AWS’ Youth Programs Classroom in the Boston House at 46 Holland Road, Kennebunk. During the three-hour program, students will explore […]

  • Published
    December 19, 2022

    Obituary – Angus Wilson

    Angus L. Wilson of Goose Rocks Beach (Kennebunkport) peacefully passed on to his eternal home Dec. 11, 2022. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who was blessed with a healthy and active life for over 99 years.   Angus was born on April 27, 1923, to John and Helen (Stevenson) Wilson in […]

  • Published
    December 15, 2022

    Obituary – Aileen Maher Bryant

    Aileen L. Maher Bryant, 77, of Kennebunk, a beloved mother and grandmother, died Dec. 8, 2022 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. Aileen was born June 7, 1945, in Lewiston, at St. Mary’s Hospital, daughter of the late Frederick J. Maher and Kathleen Everett Maher. She grew up in Mechanic Falls as the youngest […]

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    December 15, 2022

    Guest Column – A cuppa Joe at the Death Café

    You haven’t really lived until you’ve been to a Death Café. Wait, what? Death Café? What the hell? You read right. Death Café is a real thing. In fact, it’s quite popular. To quote a local news story, “Death Cafes are the thing.” Popping up all over the country. But what is it? Wikipedia enlightens […]

  • Published
    December 15, 2022

    Our Sustainable City – Winter warmth: Sharing our favorite environmental art

    Here at the South Portland Sustainability Office, we spend our days planning and managing programs that advance us toward our climate-action goals, such as reducing city-wide greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 and transitioning municipal operations to 100 percent clean renewable energy by 2040. In the midst of all of this exciting progress, it […]

  • Published
    December 15, 2022

    A Window on the Past – Quality House Specialties, makers of canned sardines and cod fish cakes

    We’ve talked about the sardine canneries in Ferry Village where many of the local neighborhood women worked in the early- to mid-1900s. When a herring boat came in, the horn at the factory would blow and it was a common sight to see doors opening and women walking down to the cannery. There were two […]

  • Published
    December 15, 2022

    Letters to the Editor

    Selection process is flawed To the editor, What a clear example of schoolyard retaliation we witnessed at the Dec. 6 special select board meeting. Despite seven people speaking on behalf of John Costin’s appointment to the new Charter Commission (those currently or formerly on the select board and four newly elected to the commission), select […]

  • Published
    December 15, 2022

    Community News – Maine Trail Coalition salutes South Portland Land Trust

    South Portland Land Trust has been awarded Maine Trail Coalition’s Completing the Vision Award for the inaugural Love Maine Trails month, taking place from late June through July 2022. Love Maine Trails month was created as a collective effort of trail stewardship to bring people together to work on a number of trail projects throughout […]

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