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 […]
Kennebunk Post
News from Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel from Mainely Media.
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 […]
New look for Kennebunk Center for Health and Rehabilitation
Renovations complete, center hosts open house.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Woofstock festival returns to AWS on Saturday
KENNEBUNK– Woofstock, the annual summer family- and dog-friendly food and beer festival event hosted by the Animal Welfare Society, returns Saturday July 30. The rain-or-shine event takes place 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the AWS campus at 46 Holland Road, West Kennebunk. Organizers say limited parking is available on site. “Woofstock is a wonderful […]
Crowbar, chain, stolen truck used to break into ATM
Kennebunk police are asking anyone with information about the theft of cash from a Norway Savings Bank ATM that took place at 1 a.m. Friday, July 22, to call 985-6121 or to leave an anonymous tip at 985-2102, ext. 1622.
‘Why would I not want to lobster?’
Biddeford author Barbara Walsh pens book on Maine’s lobster lady, Virginia Oliver, and will be signing copies at the Blueberry Festival and Craft Fair in Kennebunk on Saturday.
Kennebunk GOP to choose new candidate for House 135
Todd DiFede has withdrawn from the race for House District 135.