Don’t mess with Maine To the editor, The news that Kennebunk’s special select board meeting – with only four of the seven select board members present – voted on June 7 to engage a Texas executive search firm, Strategic Government Resources, to hire a new town manager causes bells to ring in the ears of […]
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News from Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel from Mainely Media.
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A Voice from the Past – Nancie Hackett Thompson
This week’s entry is from the diary of Nancie Hackett Thompson in spring 1869. Nancie was the third wife of Nathaniel Lord Thompson, who owned a large shipbuilding yard in Kennebunk. The loss of his previous two wives left Nathaniel with four young children prior to his marriage to Nancie in 1859. At the time […]
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Community News – Brick Store Museum hosts Cambodian artist
Thanks to the partnership of Khmer families in Kennebunk, the Brick Store Museum welcomes Cambodian ceramic artist Yary Livan, with an exhibition of his traditional ceramics. Livan is one of only three known Master Ceramists to have survived the 1975 Khmer Rouge genocide, and the only one known to be living in the United States. […]
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York County EMA COVID vaccine clinic ready with doses for very young
Director Art Cleaves said the clinic would begin administering COVID vaccine doses for children 6 months to 5 years old as soon as June 21.
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From Augusta – Maine lawmakers partner with AG’s office to protect Maine consumers
Over the past few months, I have heard from many of you about the rising costs we have all been facing, and just how much it’s affected you. It’s no secret that inflation is taking a toll on nearly every industry, and American consumers are hurting. Groceries, utilities, lodging and more have seen some of […]
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Obituary – Gregory Hoffer
Gregory William Hoffer, 24, of Kennebunkport and Maplewood, New Jersey, succumbed to a nearly lifelong battle with mental illness on May 15, 2022, despite his being a light and inspiration to so many. Born in Livingston, New Jersey, on Dec. 10, 1997, and raised in Maplewood, Greg graduated from Columbia High School, earned his bachelor […]
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Obituary – John Hunt
John C. Hunt, 78, of Kennebunkport, passed away due to pneumonia on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford, surrounded by his loving family. Jack, as he was known by everyone, was born April 29, 1944, in New York City, the son of Gaillard and Pauline M. Ward Hunt Jr. He […]
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Obituary – Marilyn Kinsella
Marilyn A. Kinsella passed away in the morning of Feb. 27, 2022, in her home at Orchid Island, Florida. She was 83 years old. Born on June 18, 1938, in Mount Vernon, New York, to George and Marion Gierer, Marilyn was the oldest of her five siblings. Even as a young girl, she displayed a […]
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Obituary – Bill Hennig
Bill Hennig passed peacefully to the Lord on June 10, 2022. Bill was born on June 17, 1930, in New York. His parents William E. and Margret (Alpers) Hennig, born in Germany, met in New York after immigrating to the United States in the 1920s. His father owned one of the largest bakeries on Long […]
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Biddeford man injured in Arundel motorcycle crash
York County Sheriff’s deputies are asking that a second motorcyclist, who had been riding with the man, contact them.
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