KEVIN BURNHAM Mon, 01/18/2021 - 11:30am
Students, parents and other island residents gather near the pond at Southport Central School to protest the town’s selectboard’s decision to fill in the pond. Courtesy of Bruce White
The pond at Southport Central School. Courtesy of Bruce White
Courtesy of Gail Richter
Courtesy of Gail Richter
A Southport selectboard decision to fill in the pond at Southport Central School drew about 20 protesters to the pond early Monday morning, Jan. 18.
Word spread through Facebook, emails and phone calls on Sunday that a construction crew was to show up Monday morning to begin the work of eliminating the pond.
LISA KRISTOFF Thu, 12/24/2020 - 8:00am
For 35 years, Boothbay Region Food Pantry has been helping residents in need, and the number served has grown each decade. The service includes distributing holiday meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
This year’s Christmas baskets were distributed at the pantry Dec. 18 and a few more on Dec. 21. Co-President Fleet Davies reported 120 families received baskets this year, each one put together based on the number of people in the household. The baskets included three side dish recipes: candied yams, split pea soup and creamed spinach, and their major ingredients.
Each family chose either ham and pineapple or chicken, with potatoes, corn, peas, carrots, raisins, brown ’n serve dinner rolls, brownie mix, trail mix, macaroni and cheese, as Davies said, “’cause everyone likes mac ’n cheese”; cans of fruit; spinach, French fried onion rings, boxed milk, applesauce, apples, onions, brown sugar and marshmallows.
Leigh Sherrill Tue, 12/22/2020 - 8:00am
Delivering pies from Southport General Store to island residents are, from left, back row: Sandra Seifert, Maddie Kaler, Mrs Claus, Laura Blake, Valarie Gamage, Carol Zalucky; front row, Mabel Kaler, Addie Lambert and Grady Gamage. Alice Mutch photo
Well, first of all Merry Christmas to all my readers. Second if you are in ‘last minute’ mode, the Island Store is open on Christmas Eve until 2 p.m. and closed Christmas Day. On New Year’s Eve the store will be open all day, better to buy your spirits, but closed New Year’s Day.
On Christmas Eve, instead of the gathering at All Saints by-the-Sea, a worship service filmed this fall at the chapel will be available for viewing at allsaintssouthport.org, beginning at the usual time 10 p.m. The film of the service will be archived so that you can also view it later. You can also attend an in-person, candlelight worship service at the Southport United Methodist Church beginning at 4