2021 – Page 2689 – The Portland Press Herald

The Maine Idea: Retooling Maine’s revenue sharing for new times

by Douglas Rooks The Maine Idea March 18, 2021March 17, 2021

Maine’s municipal revenue sharing program is in bad shape. Former Gov. Paul LePage tried to get rid of it, and succeeded in reducing it to just 40% of its original size as part of his unrelenting drive to cut state spending. While little known to the public, revenue sharing has an interesting history. It’s considered […]

Meetinghouse, Opinion

Steven Price, Kennebunkport: The kindest (hair) cut of all

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

I never liked haircuts, even when I had hair. I still have some hair, but less of it resides on my head and more of it sprouts from my eyebrows, nostrils and ears. The combination of male-pattern baldness and growing old is a terrible one-two punch to one’s male ego and vanity. Especially since, as […]

Meetinghouse, Opinion

Peter Vose, Falmouth: What goes around

March 18, 2021March 17, 2021

My mother, of course, was right. I would have looked better if I had my hair cut. This became clear to me recently when college friends from the late ’60s and early ’70s shared some old photos. Like pretty much every other guy back then, I had grown my hair long. Too long. Long hair […]

South Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies

Community News – First Congregational Church plans Easter week services

March 18, 2021March 17, 2021

First Congregational Church plans Easter week services First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in South Portland announced its upcoming worship service schedule: Sunday, March 28 – Palm/Passion Sunday 8:30 a.m. Sanctuary Worship – Maximum 75 people 8:30 a.m. Worship available on YouTube 10 a.m. Online Worship premiered on Facebook Thursday, April 1 – Maundy […]

South Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies

A Window On the Past – South Portland’s first volunteer fire department

by Kathryn Onos DiPhilippo March 18, 2021March 16, 2021

As we continue to look at the history of South Portland’s fire department, we take a look this week at the very first fire department that formed in the Ferry Village section of South Portland. We were still called Cape Elizabeth in the early 1890s, although those in Ferry Village were calling their neighborhood “South […]

Kennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies

Guest Column – Turning the corner

by Orrin Frink March 18, 2021March 15, 2021

I think we’ve turned a corner now, and things seem easier and brighter. I spent my first 18 summers in Kennebunkport, eating sand, mowing lawns and carrying other people’s golf clubs, and then was away doing the things that adults do before coming back to settle down. And through all those many years I have […]