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  • Volunteers needed to plant native trees and shrubs at Smith Preserve

    Volunteers needed to plant native trees and shrubs at Smith Preserve

    Wear old clothes, meet new friends, restore the wetlands

    KENNEBUNKPORT — The Kennebunk Conservation Trust is looking for volunteers next week to help restore wetlands in the Smith Preserve. More than 2,000 trees and shrubs need to be planted in the field at the preserve. “We’ll be planting starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing through the week, so stop by…

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  • Kennebunk voters to decide on stricter rules for recall elections

    Kennebunk voters to decide on stricter rules for recall elections

    KENNEBUNK — Voters on Nov. 3 will decide whether to change the section of the town charter that governs recall elections, including increasing the number of signatures needed to initiate a recall and establishing specific grounds for removing an elected official. The Kennebunk Select Board on September 8 voted 6-0,…

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  • Kennebunkport Voters: Ballot questions 1-4 explained

    Kennebunkport Voters: Ballot questions 1-4 explained

    KENNEBUNKPORT – Kennebunkport has four questions on its town ballot this year. Below is the wording you’ll see regarding these proposed ordinance changes, and background information on the purpose behind the changes. And, for more information on how and where to vote in the Kennebunks and Arundel, click here. Question…

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  • September 2026 Real Estate Sales

    September 2026 Real Estate Sales

    A monthly listing of real estate sales in Arundel, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport.

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  • Historic receiving tomb at Hope Cemetery to be restored

    Historic receiving tomb at Hope Cemetery to be restored

    KENNEBUNK — The receiving tomb to Hope Cemetery will be restored In order to ensure that it remains usable and to protect its historic significance. A $29,900 grant from the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to Kennebunk and the Hope Cemetery Corporation will be used to repair the granite along the…

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  • Plan for condo development on Thompson Road before planning board

    Plan for condo development on Thompson Road before planning board

    KENNEBUNK — A 10-unit duplex condominium site may be coming to what is now a hayfield on Thompson Road in West Kennebunk. At the Sept. 28 Kennebunk Planning Board meeting, Michael Tadema-Wielandt, vice president of the civil engineering and land surveying company Terradyn Consultants, presented a sketch plan on behalf…

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  • Early voting underway in Maine

    Early voting underway in Maine

    Here’s all the ways to vote in the Kennebunks and Arundel

    KENNEBUNK — Maine had one of the nation’s highest voter turnout rates in 2024, with 74.6% of eligible voters casting ballots, compared with the national average of 65.3%, according to the Independent Voter Project. Early voting in Kennebunk suggests strong turnout could continue this year, Town Clerk Merton Brown said.…

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  • Kennebunk developer offers four Water Street homes for $1 each ahead of planning board site walk

    Kennebunk developer offers four Water Street homes for $1 each ahead of planning board site walk

    KENNEBUNK – A developer proposing a 23-unit multifamily project on Water Street offered to sell the four existing homes on the site for $1 apiece to anyone willing to move them. The proposal would combine four lots at 22-28 Water Street into a single 1.43-acre parcel in the downtown business…

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  • Kennebunkport Police/EMS/Fire Stats: September 2026

    Kennebunkport Police/EMS/Fire Stats: September 2026

    A MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FROM THE TOWN OF KENNEBUNKPORT.

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  • Kennebunk Police/Fire Rescue Stats: September 2026

    Kennebunk Police/Fire Rescue Stats: September 2026

    A MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FROM THE TOWN OF KENNEBUNK.

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  • Arundel  Police/EMS/Fire Stats: September 2026

    Arundel Police/EMS/Fire Stats: September 2026

    A MONTHLY ACTIVITIES REPORT FROM THE YORK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE.

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  • Former Maine corrections chief to discuss prison reform memoir on October 7

    Former Maine corrections chief to discuss prison reform memoir on October 7

    Graves Library to host 7 pm discussion on the success of Maine Model of Corrections and its effect on Maine’s prisons

    KENNEBUNKPORT – Randall Liberty first visited the Maine State Prison during the holidays in 1971. Seven-year-old Liberty and his siblings were there to see their father, who had been sentenced to 18 months for burglaries.

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