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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
A Window on the Past – Isabel Baker Cragg and the Jack O’Lantern Casino
Now a three-family apartment building, the home at 88 Pillsbury St. in South Portland has an interesting past with ties to a building on Broadway where the Sea Dog Brewing Company restaurant and bowling alley now exists. The Meaher family once owned and lived in the large home at 88 Pillsbury St. The home was […]
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Community News – Southern Maine Health Care plans 28th annual golf tournament
Cape Arundel, on Sept. 20, is one of two host sites.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Our Sustainable City – Engaging with your city
Last week, we talked about Citizens’ Climate Lobby, and how to engage with climate policy in Maine. This week, we are focusing on local efforts: how to engage with climate action here in South Portland and ways to help shape the future of our city. Keeping up with climate action Interested in climate action happening […]
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PublishedAugust 22, 2022
Obituary – Janice Buffum
Janice (Jan) Buffum of Kennebunk, passed away on Aug. 6 after a lifetime of smiles and laughter. She was a loving mother, a caring teacher, and a true friend to so many. She lived her life by the cross-stitched words of poet Sam Walter Foss hanging on her wall, “Let me live in my house […]
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PublishedAugust 19, 2022
Obituary – Colleen Lydon
Colleen T. Lydon, 70 years, a resident of Clearwater, Florida, and Kennebunk, formerly of New York City, died Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Colleen was born Feb. 12, 1952, in New York City, a daughter of Thomas D. and Maureen (Moran) Lydon. She graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a bachelor’s degree in […]
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PublishedAugust 18, 2022
Our Sustainable City – A closer look at Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Last week, we hosted our August Coffee & Climate, highlighting Citizens’ Climate Lobby and MIT’s en-ROADS climate simulation model. This week, we are taking a closer look at Citizens’ Climate Lobby, its climate policy goals and its presence in Maine. Citizens’ Climate Lobby Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a global grassroots organization with over 500 chapters […]
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PublishedAugust 18, 2022
A Window on the Past – South Portland Heights Hospital and the Noyes Home – 889 Sawyer St.
In a prior column about the Forest City Brewery on Brewery Road (now Highland Avenue), we mentioned how the brewery was turned into a fruit and vegetable cannery in 1882 by a business called Perry & Flint. One of the partners of the firm was Eben N. Perry, a well-known resident of Cape Elizabeth (now […]
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PublishedAugust 18, 2022
From Augusta – Celebrating the right to vote, strengthening democracy
On Aug. 18, 1920, the U.S. ratified the 19th Amendment, formally granting American women the right to vote, though few could immediately exercise that right. As we celebrate women’s suffrage this month, I am mindful of the tremendous work it has taken to extend voting rights in our nation. I n the 1848 Declaration of […]
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PublishedAugust 18, 2022
Community News – Kennebunk Portside Rotary inducts new members
James Connally and Erin Riley were recently inducted as new members of Kennebunk Portside Rotary Club at a meeting in early August. Connally is development officer for Habitat for Humanity in Kennebunk and Erin is a program manager for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture-USDA. Supporting the new members at the meeting were Erin’s […]
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PublishedAugust 18, 2022
Letters to the Editor
City council should review ordinance To the editor, I read the letter to the editor from Catherine Callahan on June 10 regarding the South Portland ordinance on nude swimming/indecency. I am sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I agree 100 percent with her points. Why are we targeting female identifying people and […]
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