Time Running Out for New England Wetlands Protection
Connecticut and New England face rapid loss of tidal marshes with less than half remaining and the coast at risk. A Connecticut Conservation Association report urges stronger laws and funding, noting estuaries’ ecological and economic value from nurseries to storm protection, and calls for urgent action.
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Connecticut
The
Connecticut Conservation Association
Dallas Miner
Robert Kunz
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Department of Natural Resources
Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game
Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources
Maine Audubon Society
Maine
Kennebunk News Briefs Include Elections and Local Moves
Voters in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport will decide two referendums on oil burner upgrades and classroom remodeling at Kennebunk High School. The Planning Board meeting in Lower Town Hall is postponed to tomorrow evening. Mrs Mildred Boyden has returned home after a week in the hospital. Local staffing changes include Mrs Millie Hamilton leaving York Products Division for Keuffer and Esser, with Mrs Edgar Dener taking her place.
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Mildred Boyden
West Kennebunk
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Kennebunk
Oeakport
Kennebunk High School
Clythro Staples
Atrankfort
West Frankfort
N.Y
Ee Perents
Acoln
Missie Hitchborn
Sangerville
Frankfort
Geraldine Sheridan
Ritchfield Springs
N. Y
the Chappelle
Millie Hamilton
High Street
York County Coast Star
Keuffer and Esser, Co
York Products
Hamilton
Edgar Dener
Ferry Road
Saco
Break Reported In Biddeford Building
A break at 175 Prospect Street was reported to Biddeford police by Maj. Frank R. Irving, owner, with two doors and two windows damaged but nothing stolen. The property, used for furniture storage, is linked to a resident on site.
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Prospect St
Biddeford
Frank R. Irving
Irving
Suburban Robins Threatened by Yard Habits Study
New England robin expert Mrs. Deborah V. Howard reports declining suburban robin production. In 1967 West Newton Massachusetts robins averaged 1.7 young per pair, 1968 rose to 2.5, but five weeks of parental feeding plus nest predation cut survival. She notes 58 percent die before independence and suburban neatness reduces cover. The study is funded by the Frank M Chapman Memorial Fund and invites New England households with nesting robins to participate.
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New England
Deborah V. Howard
Howard
West Newton Mass
Frank M. Chapman
American Museem of Natural History
New
Fire Officials Suspect Arson In Big R Blaze
Biddeford firefighters rushed four trucks to Big R Food Outlet at 41 Main St to tackle a blaze under a platform entrance. Flames spread to Forester Hall garage club next door before being checked with two booster lines. Damages listed as light. A second fire at 22 Forest St. in Biddeford involved old lumber on Frank Martel property and was controlled within 30 minutes using a tank truck and one booster line.
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Biddeford
Big R Food
Main St
Forester Hall
Forest St
Frank Martel
Whist Event at Biddeford VFW Hall Award Winners
A whist party was held at Biddeford Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on Thornton Street with prizes for George Nadeau and Anne Marie Tremblay. Additional prizes went to Nadeau Yvette St Onge Paul Lamontagne Alma Beauloin Peter Croteau Wismalda Gagnon Edward St Onge Elise Nolette Rolande Turgeon Gertrude Lamontagne Armand Turgeon Emiline Poisson Paulette Lamontagne Denise LaMontagne and Sadie Hill. Growing plants from seeds noted as a universal propagation method and survey cards to Mrs Howard care of The Maine Audubon Society at 22 Elm Street Portland Maine 04111.
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Biddeford
Thornton Street
George Nadeau
Anne Marie Tremblay
Nadeau
Yvette St. Onge
Paul Lamontagne
Alma Beaudoin
Peter Croteau
Wismalda Gagnon
Edward St. Onge
Elise Nolette
Rolande Turgeon
Gertrude Lamontagne
Armand Turgeon
Emiline Poisson
Paulette Lamontagne
Denise Lamontagne
Sadie Hil
In Brief Buckets Lead to Narrow Robbery Escape
Robert Valentine 54 left a hardware store with a new bucket when a man offered a pistol for sale. Valentine refused, was robbed of $4, and a shot aimed at his abdomen glanced off the bucket, injuring his hand. Local report.
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ST. Louis
Robert Valentine
Valentine
Kennebunk C Of C Lists Coming Events
Kennebunk Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce calendar lists events for May including directors meeting May 13 at 4 pm, Church on the Cape board May 15, 50-Plus Club May 15 1 to 4 pm, SPEB rehearsal May 12, Surfside 8s Square Dance Club events May 15 and 16, Yankee Belle Chorus rehearsal May 15, Teen dance May 16 at the Youth Center, and Goff Brook Lodge works May 16 with callers and sponsors noted.
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Kennebunk
Kennebunk - Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce
Coptist
Church On the
Cape
Cape Porpoise
Webhannet Woman’s Club
Fletcher Street
Kennebunket Speb
SQSA
Webhannet Woman's Club
Surfside 8'S Square Dance Club
Golf Brook Lodge
Sinnott Road
Arundel
Cal Mail
Origin of Hello as telephone greeting linked to Edison
A traditional greeting origin story traces Hello to Thomas Edison, with its forerunner possibly the term Hallow spoken with a sailor hail tone, featuring the second syllable emphasis.
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Thomas E. Edison
Old Orchard Beach MRS and Community Club Notices
Old Orchard Beach MRS C P Wight and Abbott-Verville AM VETS Auxiliary held a card party at the Post home on Walnut Street. Prizes awarded include ladies high and low and men's high. An upcoming card party is planned for next Sunday at 8 P M. Ocean Park Extension meets tomorrow at 10:30 A M with a fashion show and gown modeling by Wells Branch York Extension and Ocean Park’s Jillian Jakeman as commentator. Hope Circle sets the May supper for May 19 at Jeanette Dickson's Cascade Road home with hostesses Muriel Gooch Mary Mewer and Dorothy Lary.
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Abbott-Verville Amvets
Post Home
Walnut Street
Helen Peele
Edna Henaire
Robert Pettengill
Ralph Derringer
Jon Queens
Paul Cote
Edna Goodale
Tom Bill
Ocean Park Extension
Wells Branch
York
Jillian Jakeman
Ocean Park
Hope Circle
Jeanette Dickson
Cascade Road
Muriel Gooch
Colby Avenue
Mary Mewer
Dorothy Lary
Fireman Hurt In Skirmish On Biddeford Street
A scuffle on Biddeford Street left Fireman Herbert Tibbetts hospitalized with a back injury and Keen Comer, 20, jailed for assault and battery at Alfred. Comer wrestled with an unnamed man as Tibbetts was kicked and taken to Webber Hospital, where officials say he is resting comfortably.
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Water St
Biddeford
Herbert Tibbetts
Keen Comer
Alfred
Water Street
Comer
Tibbetts
Webber Hospital
Ascension Day Festival Scheduled at Saco Church
Ascension Day will be observed at Trinity Episcopal Church Saco with a 7 30 p m choral Eucharist led by Rev Clifford T Gieger substituting for Rev Gerald E Burtt who attends an Ecumenical Institute in Rye Beach N H The Women of Christ Church Biddeford and Trinity Church Saco will hold the spring gathering during the service Refreshments will follow in the parish house chaired by Mrs John Burrows
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Ascension of Our Lord
Trinity Episcopal Church
Saco
Gerald FE. Burtt
Clifford T. Gieger
Saint David's Church
Kennebunk
Father Burtt
Institute of Sensitivity
Saint Friary
Rye Beach
N. H
Women of
Christ Church
Biddeford
Trinity Church
Grace Dow
U. T.O
Kenneth Libby
U.T.O
John Burrows
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Glen-Mor
Claire (Defond) Lemire
South Bellingham
Mass
Paulette (Gendron
Back Yard
N.E
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Volkswagen
King's Motors
Wilfrid J. Fortier Insurance Agency
Bacon St
Columbia
Minerva
Marilyn's
Smithwheel Rd
York Vacuum Cleaner Co
Electrolux Hoover
G.E. Singer
Melvin Ave
Beach
HOWE
Wells
Edmund Cae Dial
N.E. Robin
Big R
VFW Hall
Jordan Marsh
South Portland Armory
Special Commission Depts
Broadway
Portland
Maine Employment Security Commission
Maine State Employment Service
Cumberland Ave
Bucket
Erie
Benny Wall
Lindley McClelland
Wall
Detroit
Mich
Melbourne
Australia
Britain
Ane
James Smibert
Royal Society
Dr.Smibert
Old Orchard Beach
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Biddeford Street
Saco Church
Cairo
Emily Felker
Mrs. Dickson
ST. Francis College
Pool Road
Elm Street
Biddeford, ME
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