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Kittery Community Market Mayfest Celebration KITTERY Celebrate Spring at the Kittery Community Market (KCM) Mayfest Celebration on Sunday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Over 35 vendors will be participating in the festivities. Vendors will feature diverse skills and products, such as produce, f lowers, seedlings, prepared foods, baked goods, artisan crafts, meats, fish, cheeses, allnatural soap and skincare lines, and knife and tool sharpening. Entertainment Nation will be providing music and a photo booth, and will be hosting Musical Bingo games. Participants
can play musical bingo and win Bumper Crop vouchers to spend at the market! Bring a chair and play for a while. Musical bingo uses the same concept as traditional bingo, except the tradi-
tional letters and numbers on the playing cards are replaced with song titles and artists. Players compete to win based on their knowledge of music. Each game consists of different music rounds
that feature varied musical decades, genres and themes. Players mark their cards when the DJ plays “their” song, and when they get five marks in a row, can yell “BINGO!”
The Ryan Home: A Haven of Hope By Susan Gallagher Lemmo, Staff Writer NORTH BERWICK Dante was late for school again. The 16-year-old had spent the long, frigid night in a car with his mother, struggling to stay warm. A safe overnight parking spot was a rare find that seemed to be getting farther and farther away. The car was Dante’s home. Homelessness is a cruel reality for more than 2,000 young people in Maine. Sadly, this bigcity scourge is seeping into our
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small towns and growing like an invasive weed. Dante is one of the lucky ones who found help in the form of the Ryan Home Project, a nonprofit based in North Berwick that provides a safe place to stay for homeless teenage students in MSAD 60. The Ryan Home is shining a bright ray of hope through the dark despair of this ongoing tragedy, offering shelter at the home itself or at the home of a host family. In Dante’s case, an older couple, whose own children were grown and gone, opened their home and hearts to the young boy. He would live with the couple for six months,
YORK COUNTY Shoreline Explorer Trolley Service will not be running its normal services this summer, due to the inability to hire enough CDL drivers. Service will be mostly suspended for the 2023 season. Despite increased recruiting efforts, the trolley has not been able to recruit or hire enough qualified CDL drivers or team leaders to provide service. The routes that will be impacted are the Blue 4 and 4B, and the Purple 2. There is some good news, though. As
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says. “He wanted to do well in school.” She adds, “He really struggled with the uncertainty of everything.” Once settled in a safe home, Dante was able to continue his education and arrive at his longed-for classes on time. Eventually, he was for-
See MAYFEST on page 9 . . . tunate to reconnect with his dad and move in with him. In addition to heading the Ryan Home, Austin has spent the last 22 years as the assistant superintendent of school administrative district 60, which encompasses North Berwick, Berwick, and Lebanon. She also serves as the homeless liaison for students, which brings homeless teens to her attention, and would be the catalyst that inspired her to start the Ryan Home. There is sadness in her eyes as she describes the struggles of the teens she has been charged with helping. “We always had students couch surfing, sleeping in cars, in the woods,” she says. See HOME on page 4 . . .
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enough time to change the trajectory of his life. Susan Austin is the director of the Ryan Home and remembers how “super anxiety-provoking” the youth’s lateness to school was for him when homeless. “He hated being late,” she
Sages Entertainment will perform magic shows and balloon art throughout the day, and local restaurants Blue Mermaid and Tributary Brewing Company will be open for beverages and tasty brunch treats. Participants can make a whole day of it shopping, drinking, and dining locally while enjoying all the exciting entertainment around them. The first 100 customers to make purchases at Blue Mermaid and Tributary Brewing Co will receive a $5 voucher to spend at the market.
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per last summer, there will be a vehicle added to the Orange Line which will allow the trolley to have hourly service, extending the route to Wells Beach and Sanford. This additional service will also be operating seven days per week from June 24 through September 3. More information and a revised Orange Line schedule will be coming soon. For updates, visit www.yccac.org/ transportation and www.facebook.com/ yccac-transportation-109046198283208, or call 207-459-2930.
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