Eliot News

Hospice of York recently held its 30th annual meeting at Pelkey's Funeral Home in Kittery.

The Old York Garden Club presents 'Summer Sundays in the Garden' 2009. A different club member will open their private garden for viewing on Sunday afternoons from noon to 4 p.m. through Aug.

There are some important qualities I'd like to see in the next governor of Maine.

New England has many endearing qualities, as I'm sure we'd all agree. But as we look toward a future of alternative energy freedom, it can come up short.

At its first meeting Thursday evening, the new Eliot Board of Selectmen directed the Town Administrator to draft a letter requesting the Maine Attorney General to look into possible legal action to force the Schiller Power Plant in Newington, N.H., to comply with noise and other environmental laws.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 EJ Hersom/Staff photographer Stella Cox, 2, performs Saturday with the King of Silly during the Strawberry Festival in South Berwick, Maine.

Pale green glow of the jaded Wearing blue jeans that have faded A tangled tree of curls The life of the sidewalk unfurls Oh my, all about me cries All about me tries To separate the branches from the trees To say goodbye to the birds and the bees To remove the rays from the sun There! Do you see? What I have done I've darkened the heat and the ...

Marion D. Hinds Blaney Muchemore, 80, died Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at Durgin Pines, Kittery, Maine.

Blue Ocean's Jen Kennedy of Eliot, Maine, Elizabeth Farish of Portsmouth and Beth Boucher of Portsmouth.

Standing outside across the river from the Schiller Station power plant in Newington, plant manager Richard Dispins listened carefully as Eliot resident Dan Bogannam and 16 neighbors told him that the noise from the plant wakes them up at night and makes it difficult to converse outside.

"Oh, l love couscous, with raisins, apricots and cumin, Moroccan-style." Peggy Lamb, Portsmouth "I love the big kind of couscous, with roasted vegetables or grilled vegetables." Patricia Wronsky, Exeter "I really like the large couscous, Israeli, and especially when made with reduced beef stock.

KISSES to the kind folks in the black four-door Nissan pick-up who helped me corral Bailey the wayward terrier behind Portsmouth Kayak Adventures.

Larry McCullough debuts solo dance works June 19-21 in Portsmouth June 12, 2009 9:52 AM In his first solo dance performance on the Seacoast, Larry McCullough will debut a series of original solo modern dance works titled 'Endangered Species' at the West End Studio Theatre, June 19-21. McCullough, raised in the Midwest, spent teenage summers with a ...

CAMDEN : A group of Camden-Rockport Middle School students know how to rock. Three days a week, 11 eighth-graders and three seventh-graders can be found - and heard - practicing their skills in the industrial arts room before school.

ROCKPORT : More than 100 seventh- and eighth-grade students from Camden-Rockport Middle School traveled to North Andover, Mass., on May 22 for the Great East Music Festival.

Nolan MacLean Collins, of Eliot, Maine, recently graduated from Colby College, Magna Cum Laude, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.

Sunday, June 7, 2009 E-mail listings to communityweekly fosters.com. Christian Women's Connection HAMPTON - The Seacoast Christian Women's Connection is hosting a luncheon on Monday, June 8, at the Ashworth By The Sea, 295 Ocean Blvd., Hampton Beach.

Dorothy Estey Chase, widow of Martin G. Chase, of Portsmouth, formerly of York Beach, Maine, died Monday, June 1, 2009, at the Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth.

Clarence "Bud" Allen, 62, of Birch Hill Road in York, died Saturday, May 30, 2009, at his home surrounded by his loved ones.

After he was arrested for violating a protective order Monday morning, Anthony Carter returned to the scene of the crime and did it again, say police.