Our Sustainable City – Beneficial electrification

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March 3, 2022

Our Sustainable City – Beneficial electrification

The last couple of weeks, we focused on the benefits of solar on both a residential and municipal level. This week, the South Portland Sustainability Office has beneficial electrification on the brain. Beneficial electrification – including sola r– helps us achieve our climate action goals while also ensuring home comfort, affordability and efficiency. One Climate […]
Published
March 2, 2022

Community News – Holy Spirit Parish students assemble care kits for homeless

Middle school students in faith formation classes at Holy Spirit Parish (St. Martha Church in Kennebunk and St. Mary Church in Wells) will collect and provide necessary items for a group in need. The Holy Spirit Parish Middle School Outreach Project is underway, with the students collecting items (through March 6) to assemble care kits […]
Published
March 2, 2022

Letters to the Editor

The importance of listening To the editor, At Kennebunk’s First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, I’m known as, The Flag Guy. I’m responsible for doing what’s necessary to keep the American flag and our other flags flying. I also change the “other” flags occasionally and on April 1, in recognition of Earth Day, I’ll hang the […]
Published
March 2, 2022

Letters to the Editor

Leash rules protect wildlife To the editor, Migratory birds are much more common at Willard Beach when off-leash dogs are not there. Mergansers, buffleheads, and goldeneyes come in among the rocks at the north end of the beach, and brants visit the shallows at the south end during their migration to Canada. The difference is […]
Published
March 2, 2022

Community News – Paint for Preservation is back

Cape Elizabeth Land Trust is accepting artist submissions.
Published
February 24, 2022

Obituary – Virginia Craver

Virginia Elizabeth “Betty” Craver, 100, passed away Feb. 15, 2022. She was born July 17, 1921, in Bement, Illinois, to Clyde and Rose (Overand) Hill. Betty attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1944 before she married Perry P. Craver Sr. in 1945. They were married for 71 years until his passing in 2016. Her […]
Published
February 24, 2022

Letters to the Editor

Stop with false narrative To the editor, Let’s just stop right now – can we agree to that simple step? The recall effort is underway. Soon a decision will be rendered by the court allowing the election to proceed or not. Claiming that the Kennebunk town manager and select board chair “backed members of the […]
Published
February 24, 2022

A Window on the Past – Why the Lovell Arms bicycle factory came to be in South Portland

Last week we talked about Isaac C. Atkinson’s plush mill that was constructed in 1892, then opened and subsequently failed in 1893. We continue our look at that old factory complex that used to exist off of Mussey Street, in the area that is now home to RiverPlace Apartments. When the plush mill opened, the […]
Published
February 24, 2022

Community News – Speers Gallery prepared for March exhibit

Kennebunk Free Library announced its next Speers Gallery exhibit, Watercolors, by Bob Lown, opening March 5. The exhibit features watercolor paintings of local architecture, beaches, parks and scenery of the greater Kennebunk area. The public is invited to attend an artist reception on Saturday, March 5, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Speers Gallery. Lown […]
Published
February 24, 2022

Our Sustainable City – Community solar in South Portland

Last week, we talked about the history and benefits of South Portland’s municipal solar projects. In addition to projects owned or administered by the city, there are many other types of solar projects, including solar that residents can participate in. With the state legislation passed in 2019 that encourages the development of renewable energy projects […]

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