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PublishedAugust 1, 2022
Obituary – Cindy Welch
Cindy Lee Welch, 61, of Kennebunk, passed away Friday evening, July 29, 2022, at York Hospital following a brief but courageous battle with cancer with her family at her side. Cindy was born in Biddeford on Oct. 1, 1960, the daughter of Elton (Skeeter) and Betty (Vinton) Welch. She attended local schools, graduating from Kennebunk […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Guest Column – Shopping
The grocery store is my favorite venue, because she walks on ahead and lets me follow pushing the shopping cart, while she puts things in it, and I can not only use the cart as a walker to keep from falling down, but command some respect from smaller people, and occasionally have a chance to […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Guest Column – Questions related to global warming
I’m a retired pastor, but my undergraduate degree was environmental science (Penn State, ’74). Back then, water vapor was considered the prominent green house gas. Several years ago, I wondered, where has it gone? I took an afternoon to read and found articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, American Chemistry Society and NASA. All said, it is […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
A Window on the Past – Old Sparhawk Mills
Old Sparhawk Mills was a fixture in Mill Creek for over 35 years. The company was incorporated in 1922 and was originally located in Portland. After just a couple of years, however, the business moved to South Portland and it remained in operation on Cottage Road from 1925 to 1961, then moved to Yarmouth. A […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Community News – Vintage base ball coming to Parsons Field
The Brick Store Museum will host a vintage base ball game between the Dirigo Base Ball Club of Maine vs. Mudville (of Holliston, Massachusetts) at noon on Saturday, Aug. 6. The game will be played on Kennebunk’s Parsons Field, at the corner of Dane and Park streets. Tickets to the game are $5 per person, […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Our Sustainable City – Share your plastic-free experience with us
For the month of July, the South Portland Sustainability Office attempted to be plastic free and asked residents to join us. A core reason the South Portland Sustainability Office decided to pursue going plastic free for a month was to acknowledge how difficult it is to be plastic free, find the areas of our life […]
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PublishedJuly 27, 2022
From Augusta – Thank you to a ‘warm community’ of friends and neighbors
Elizabeth Taylor. Sheryl Crow. Mary Tyler Moore. And you can add me, Representative Traci Gere, to that list. No, I haven’t suddenly become famous, although I have been known to belt out “Soak Up the Sun” on a beautiful Maine summer day. Rather, I have joined the list of people diagnosed with a meningioma, a […]
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PublishedJuly 27, 2022
Guest Column – Wiffle ball tournament is a home run
The Tommy McNamara Charitable Foundation Wiffle ball tournament is a home run, nine years later. What did Tommy love most about his summers and Kennebunk? Family and friends, of course, and he loved playing Wiffle ball with his best friends in his backyard or at “The Hose.” So, after the tragic loss of Tommy in […]
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PublishedJuly 26, 2022
August’s featured exhibition at Speers Gallery is announced
Kennebunk Free Library announced its next Speers Gallery exhibit, Peace of My Mind, by Madeleine P. Hopkins, opening Monday, Aug. 1. The exhibit is a visual memoir of her art and prose, and consists of 33 landscape paintings or prints coupled with the written word. Hopkins uses a combination of oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel. […]
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PublishedJuly 21, 2022
Guest Column – Word up
I was surprised when a friend, who had been reading my guest columns, suggested that I was a very wordy person, and seemed to love using as many words as possible. My first thought was that he was criticizing me for using too many words, and my second thought was that he was complimenting me […]
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