Biddeford Obituaries: McKenney and Mathews Die Within Days
Donald S. McKenney 67 of 243 South St. Biddeford dies after a short illness. Army veteran, former hardware store partner, survived by Margarite Orser McKenney. Funeral Friday at St. Joseph Church with Laurel Hill Cemetery burial. Lawrence H. Mathews 69 of 770 Pool Rd. Biddeford dies suddenly at home. Carpenter, survived by Helen M. and two daughters. Funeral Friday from Shumway Gross Funeral Home with Evergreen Cemetery burial.
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Donald S. McKenney
South St
Biddeford
Carlos
Elizabeth Niquette McKenney
McKenney and
Heard Hardware Store
St. Joseph Church
Margarite
Orser McKenney
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Saco
Cosgrove Funeral Home
Elm St
Lawrence H. Mathews
Pool Road
Berwick
Samuel
Charlotte Learned Mathews
Biddeford United Methodist Church
Mathews
Helen M
Valerie Arbour
Wells
Nancy O'Connell
Portland
George Mathews
Hazel Ames
Somersworth
N.H
Shumway Gross Funeral Home
Spring St
Evergreen Cemetery
Hyman Kraft obituary and related notes
Hyman Kraft, 76, author of the 1951 musical Top Banana and Cafe Crown, died Tuesday in New York. He also co wrote the screenplay for An American Tragedy with Theodore Dreiser. The item notes about 100000 U S drinkers become alcoholics annually and an increasing share are women.
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Hyman Kraft
NEW York
Kraft
Theodore Dreiser
Dreiser
United States
Funeral Homes Listed in Saco and Biddeford
SHUMWAY AND GROSS Funeral Service at 35 Spring St Saco lists phone 284-5611. DENNETT AND CRAIG at 365 Main Street Saco Maine 282-0562. EMOND AND CONROY Funeral Home directed by John P Conroy Jr at 72 Hill St Biddeford with 284-5511 or 282-1818.
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Shumway and Gross Funeral Service
Spring St
Saco
Dennett & Craig
Main Street
Maine
Emond & Conroy Funeral Home
John P. Conroy Jr
Hill St
Biddeford
Agenda Listed At Ocean Park
An open meeting with Ocean Park town officials is set for tonight at 8 in the recreation building on Colby Avenue. The agenda covers beach cleaning police protection lighting crosswalks streets sewage taxes beach grass restoration bikeways and bicycle safety with discussion expected to end by 10.
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Ocean Park
Colby Avenue
School Board Meets Tonight in Biddeford
The Biddeford School Board convenes a regular meeting at 6 30 p m at the superintendent's office on Maplewood Avenue. On the agenda are a student suspension and expulsion policy a new Saga Foods lunch contract teacher vacancies and the vocational advisory board. Applications for elderly refunds are available at Saco City Hall for residents aged 65 or older.
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Biddeford
Superintendent of Schools
Maplewood Avenue
Saga Foods
Vocational Advisory Board
Saco City Hall
Kennebunk fund drive targets land purchase
A special Conservation Commission committee in Kennebunk started a fund raising campaign to raise up to 22,900 in revenue sharing funds for the 27,300 land purchase of 44.7 acres off Summer Street part of the Levitt land. They hope private gifts reduce the need and will seek donors by phone until the Sept 15 town meeting.
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Peter Kingsley
Kennebunk
Summer Street
Levitt
Conservation Commission
The
Veterans of Foreign War
E.R. Jellison Realty of
Wells
HUD Award To Biddeford Marked At Brief Ceremony
Biddeford received a 293 715 HUD block grant under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 in a brief ceremony at the Wonderbar Steakhouse. Mayor Lucien Dutremble thanked community groups and noted past underutilization while Norman Denton of the Manchester HUD office presented the award.
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Biddeford
Lucien Dutremble
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Lynn Hower
Wonderbar
Norman Denton
Manchester, N.H
Dutremble
Robert Dodge
Power lines down in Kennebunk disrupt traffic
A car driven by Keith Whelpley struck a utility pole on Lower Brown Street at 6 23 this morning causing lines to fall and traffic delays. Whelpley was uninjured. A 12 year old Biddeford boy hit by a CN truck on Hill Street was treated as an outpatient at Webber Hospital. Police said Jeffrey Barone was brushed by the truck driven by Jean Lamb. Route 1 crash in Saco sent three people from Berlin New Hampshire to Webber Hospital with minor injuries. Cantara rescued a woman from the Saco River and she was treated at Webber Hospital. Grass fire on 280 Ferry Road burned a quarter acre. A Montreal woman Rose Anna Jacobs was treated after a collision with a car driven by Dean Lamson of Saco. A dump fire on Smithwheel Road prompted firefighting response.
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Keith Whelpley
High St
Lower Brown Street
Whelpley
Biddeford
Webber Hospital
Hill Street
Pure and Hospital
Olice
Jeffrey Barone
Raymond Street
Jean Lamb
Old Orchard Beach
SACO
Route 1
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Gisele Gagne
Teresa Lagace
Berlin
N.H
David F. Smith
Nazareth
Lagace
Smith
Robert Cantara
Bradbury St
Cantara
York County
Ferry Road
Oman
Montreal
Dean Lamson
Rose Anna Jacobs
Yudovin Bouchard
Quebec
Bouchard
Smithwheel Road
Miniature Golf Plan Opposed by Local Residents
Residents of Union Odessa and Ocean avenues voiced opposition at a planning board hearing to Thomas Lee Jr for a zone change on Union Avenue. Lee seeks a Business 1 designation to build a miniature golf course on land now a public parking lot near First Street, while neighbors warn of depreciation, unwanted businesses, and parking issues. Planning board will forward a recommendation to the town council.
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Old Orchard Beach
Union
Odessa
Ocean Avenues
Planning Board
Thomas Lee Jr
Union Avenue
Lee
First Street
David Abbott
Nion Avenue
Abbott
Chappell Seeks EPA Endorsement for Waste Treatment Method
Gennge Chappell, inventor of a municipal and industrial waste treatment process, plans to address EPA questions and prove superiority over conventional methods. Saco's $75,000 grant request was rejected for lack of proof, while Chappell asserts patent status and potential testing at other EPA labs.
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Gennge Chappell
Chappell
Saco
John Ster
Dexter
Saco Shoreland Ordinance Topic for Thursday Meeting
Saco council ordinance committee and city planner Peter Cullinan will meet state planning officials in Augusta Thursday to discuss shoreland zoning. The state has drafted shoreland ordinances for over 100 communities not yet meeting deadlines. A moratorium on most shoreland development remains until the ordinance is adopted.
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Saco Council
Peter Cullinan
State Planning Office
Augusta
Saco
Fair Sunny Weather With Coastal Showers Forecast
Portland area forecast calls for fair to sunny conditions tonight with lows around 55 to 60. Mostly sunny to the south, partly cloudy with a chance of showers in the north tomorrow, temperatures in the 80s.
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Portland
Weather Eastport to Merrimack River Forecast Shift Inland
Marine forecast notes a pressure system centered over New York drifting eastward with onshore winds 5 to 15 knots, becoming variable less than 10 knots tonight and onshore 5 to 15 knots Thursday. Fair visibility over five miles through Thursday with seas under two feet tonight.
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Eastport
Merrimack River
New York
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