Senator Joe Rafferty, D-Kennebunk, has been appointed by Senate President Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick, to serve as Senate chair of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs for the 132nd Maine State Legislature. According to a Dec. 12 news release, the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee is responsible for legislation related to the […]
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Kennebunkport Conservation Trust receives land trust grant
The Kennebunkport Conservation Trust announced it received an award from The L.L.Bean Maine Land Trust Grant Program that is administered by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust. According to a Dec. 12 news release, the $10,000 award is one of seven awards awarded this year through the annual L.L.Bean Maine Land Trust Grant Program and the […]
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York County teen center to open in Biddeford
My Place Teen Center will open its new location early next year, serving at-risk youth throughout York County.
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Teacher contract includes planning time, salary scale
RSU 21 and Kennebunk, Arundel, Kennebunkport Educators’ Association agreed to ratify a new teacher contract last week.
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Opinion – Fifty-two years of Christmas memories in the Kennebunks
When the last of the turkey leftovers are finally and mercifully finished off and the temperatures begin to drop, you can feel here in the Kennebunks that Christmas is in the air. For those of us who are swiftly climbing the rungs of the aging ladder, it can become a time to reminisce about past […]
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Community News – Funky Divas concert at Church on the Cape
Funky Divas of Gospel Christmas Concert The Keith McClelland Community Music Foundation will host The Funky Divas of Gospel for a free concert at Church on the Cape Saturday, Dec. 14, at 2 p.m. Church on the Cape is located at 3 Langsford Road in Cape Porpoise. The Christmas show, according to a news release, […]
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Santa arrives by lobster boat at Kennebunkport’s Christmas Prelude
The annual holiday festival kicked off this weekend with a hat parade and Santa’s arrival, on a boatload full of elves and giant lobsters.
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UNE students put sustainability lessons to work locally
The sustainability fellowship program was launched last year to train the next generation of leaders and build an official sustainability network in southern Maine.
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During the holidays, they come for the trolleys – and stay for the people
The volunteers at the Seashore Trolley Museum share a love for public transit and educating visitors about the trolley cars that once carried people through their communities.
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Christmas Prelude Trolley ready to roll
The Seashore Trolley Museum’s Christmas Prelude Trolley rides will be held on Friday through Sunday, Dec. 6-8, and Dec. 13-15. Trolleys operate on the museum’s 3.5-mile heritage railway every 30 minutes between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. with a break from noon to 1 p.m. The trolleys, according to a museum news release, are heated […]