The town has agreed to a study that will look at costs, design and other factors associated with a Fiber to the Home model.
December 2021
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
Community News – Recycling firm sends out holiday reminder
Keep recycling during the holiday season, but ecomaine, the Portland-based recycling facility, is making a list and checking it twice – a list of acceptable items in single-sort recycling bins this holiday season. “Every holiday season, the amount of recycling tends to increase,” said Kathryn Oak, ecomaine’s recycling manager, in a Dec. 2 news release, […]
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Community News – Waterhouse Center hosts Skate Swap
Kennebunk’s annual Skate Swap is set for Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Waterhouse Center. Those attending should bring skates to swap from 11 a.m. to noon, and swap or buy skates from noon to 1 p.m., for a minimum donation of $10. Participants can buy or swap one pair per person, with priority given to […]
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Guest Column – The pocketknife
Many years ago, when I was still a young man, they pressed upon us the notion that there were standards, and among them, there was a standard measure for a Gentleman. And this was, simply put, a pocketknife, a clean handkerchief and a ten-dollar bill. The pocketknife was to solve technical or physical problems as […]
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s note: The first paragraph of the following letter was omitted from the Dec. 3 print edition of the Kennebunk Post. Recall doesn’t benefit school district To the editor, Petitions to recall RSU 21 School Board chair Art LeBlanc and school board member Tim Stentiford were filed in the Kennebunk town clerk’s office Monday, Nov. […]
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From Augusta – Comprehensive plan committee deserves kudos – and feedback
Kennebunk’s Comprehensive Plan Committee has put together a comprehensive document about our town and its guidelines for growth over the next 10 years. This is significant. Once approved by voters, perhaps in June, what actions town committees and members of the select board take in future, if done well, should be grounded in the guidelines […]
Posted inSouth Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies
Our Sustainable City – A year in review: Progress on One Climate Future
It has been a year since South Portland City Council adopted One Climate Future, our joint climate action and adaptation plan with Portland. The plan outlines 68 strategies to reach our ambitious (but achievable) goals of reducing city-wide greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 and transitioning municipal operations to 100 percent clean renewable energy […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
John Micek: Four more children dead, and a nation shrugs
Families in Michigan will set an empty place at the table this holiday season in the wake of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four children dead and seven more injured. The deaths at Oxford this week came a little more than two weeks before the ninth anniversary of the Dec. 14, […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: We’ve broken our promises on gun violence
Common-sense ways to keep kids from being injured or killed by firearms have been identified. Now let’s enact them.
Posted inMaine, News
With EMTs in short supply, ambulance services in rural Maine want state to come to the rescue
A shortage of EMTs and paramedics has left rural ambulance services in dire shape, EMS professionals say, and it’s time for the state to step in and help.