The Cheverus/Kennebunk girls’ ice hockey team used offense to capture the regional championship in its 2017-2018 campaign — this season, the squad will try to use defense to get the same results. “I think we’re learning to play a different style,” said Cheverus/Kennebunk head coach Scott Rousseau. “There are a lot of ways to win […]
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Restoration begins for Kennebunkport’s Town House School
KENNEBUNKPORT — In some ways, preserving a historical building is a direct link for future residents to the past and that’s the goal of the Kennebunkport Historical Society’s efforts to restore the Town House School. Renovation work on the Town House School, the last one-room schoolhouse in Kennebunkport, began earlier this month. The $450,000 project […]
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Arundel weighs miniature golf proposal
ARUNDEL – Route 1 could soon have a new attraction with a prehistoric nature: a dinosaur-themed miniature golf course. The project is proposed by Arundel residents Cliff and Bree Gajtkowski. The project is proposed to be an 18-hole miniature golf course named Raptor Falls. If the project is approved at a Jan. 10 planning board […]
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Kennebunk fire likely started in utility room, investigators say
KENNEBUNK — Fire investigators believe they have traced the origin of the fire that consumed a Webber Hill Road home in Kennebunk early Wednesday, but the damage to the split-level home was so great the definitive cause cannot be determined. Investigators said it appears the fire started in the area of the utility room in […]
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Kennebunk grad sets sights on Boston Marathon
BOSTON, Mass. — A Kennebunk High School graduate who never envisioned herself as an athlete is getting ready to run in one of the most prestigious races around, and in the process, will use her achievement to help those less fortunate. Born in Biddeford and having grown up in West Kennebunk, Melissa Rousselle didn’t start […]
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Grant will help preserve vernal pools
KENNEBUNKPORT – Saco Valley Land Trust has received a $23,000 grant that could help make a conservation bridge project a reality. The trust is celebrating its 30th year in operation and has focused its efforts on the bridge project, which has been underway for a year and will take what the trust projects will be […]
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Kennebunk High School Honor Roll
KENNEBUNK — Administrators at Kennebunk High School have announced top academic performers achieving distinction on the school’s honor roll for the first quarter of the 2018-2019 school year. In order to qualify for the KHS Honor Roll, students must have a 2 or higher on the Guiding Principles. FRESHMEN High Honors Tyler Adams, Camden Bard, […]
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Prelude is perfect time for children’s literature
KENNEBUNK – A local artist spent the first weekend of Prelude visiting with children and signing copies of her two new holiday children’s books. Danie Connolly is originally from Peabody, Massachusetts, but moved to her beloved Kennebunk 25 years ago. While she is what she calls a “newly-christened snow-bird,” now spending her winters in Clearwater, […]
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Kennebunk gridder named to Fitzpatrick list
The semifinalists for the 48th annual James J. Fitzpatrick Trophy were announced on Wednesday and four local standouts made the cut for the state’s top high school football honor. Kennebunk’s Dante DeLorenzo,Biddeford’s Carter Edgerton, Thornton Academy’s Anthony Bracamonte and Wells’ Tyler Bridge were among the 12 semifinalists for the award, which goes to the state’s […]
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Former President Bush missed by many
KENNEBUNKPORT — For decades former President George H.W. Bush, his wife Barbara, his children, grandchildren and others have been a fixture in the summer at the family’s estate Walker’s Point. That changed earlier this year on April 17, when Barbara Bush died in Houston, Texas. On Friday, George H.W. Bush died, also in Houston. The […]