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Hyperlocal: Live in #Kennebunk, #Kennebunkport, or #Arundel #Maine and need to get rid of a Christmas tree? Save a trip to the recyling center and let Kennebunk Rotary and KHS volunteers pick it up and bring it in for you. Register at kennebunkrotary.com/events/chr

Rotary Club of KennebunkChristmas Tree Pickup 2025Wondering what to do with your tree after the holidays? Let the Kennebunk Rotary pick up your tree! Register here to get your tree picked up by Rotary volunteers on January 11, 2025. Give us your name and address when you register, put your tree out no later than 8:00 AM on January 11th, and we'll do the rest. All proceeds go to the High School Interact program to support their community and humanitarian efforts.
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#Wildfire in nearby #WaterboroMaine right now. Back in 1947, an unusually dry summer led to devastating fires, with nine towns wiped out!

The Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns

Warning signs of the #Maine fires appeared as early as March. An abnormally warm spring caused snow to melt early in the woods. Mid-July to October were unusually #dry, with 108 consecutive days without rain.

New England Historical Society, updated in 2024

"An eight-mile-long wall of fire burned in #Kennebunkport. In #NorthWaterboro, nearly 60 residents and volunteers were trapped for more than an hour behind a line of fire before escaping.

"In York County, the fires destroyed most of the homes in #Shapleigh and #Waterboro. then swept toward the sea and consumed swathes of #Alfred, #Lyman, #Newfield, #Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, #Arundel, #Dayton, #Wells, #Biddeford and #Saco [and #Hollis]."

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New England Historical Society · The Year a State Burned: Maine Fires of 1947 Wipe Out 9 Towns - New England Historical SocietyIn October 1947, Maine fires destroyed 9 towns, hundreds of homes, 500,000 acres of trees and Bar Harbor.'s Millionaire's Row. (With video).
#Wildfires#Drought#Drought2024
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'This is our best option:' #Maine farmers turn to #SolarEnergy due to #contaminated fields

Story by Brad Rogers
7/25/2024

ARUNDEL (WGME) – "#PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, have been nothing short of disastrous for hundreds of #Mainefarmers.

"It's ruined their land, made their cattle, milk and eggs unsafe to eat and left many farmers with serious health problems.

"'This farm has been in our family since 1914,' #FredStone, whose #Arundel farm was contaminated with PFAS, said.

"Stone was a third-generation dairy farmer in Arundel until forever chemicals were discovered in his fields, #WellWater, cows and milk.

"The pollution came from spreading #wastewater #sludge on his farm after the state told him it was safe.

"#MaineDEP has identified more than 500 sites where sludge was applied to farmland as #fertilizer.

"In 2017, Stone was the first farmer in the state to have his dairy farm and his pasture shut down due to #PFAScontamination.

"To make up for it, the state offered to buy his farm, but he refused to walk away.

"'We’re not in the farm selling or land selling business,' Stone said. 'Given what options we had left, that brought us to the solar thing.'

"He's been working with #WaldenRenewables to build a solar array on 100 acres of his contaminated farm.

"'It's their best alternative, but for some of these landowners, it's hard to kind of accept the change that they're facing,' Dale Knapp of Walden Renewables said. 'This is an injection of revenue that they desperately need.'

"This week, the Maine Public Utilities Commission [#MainePUC] approved new rules, paving the way for solar development on PFAS-polluted farms.

"'The Act provides that the commission must give a primary preference to projects that are located on contaminated lands,' Carrie Gilbert of the Maine PUC Commission said.

"'This is our best option,' Stone said. 'So reluctantly, very reluctantly I guess, that’s what we ended up having to do.'

"Stone plans to sign a 30-year lease for the solar array.

"After that, his farm may still be contaminated with forever chemicals, but 30 years is a long time for someone to come up with a solution.

"'That might mean that generational farm just goes on pause,' Knapp said. 'And the next generation may have the opportunity to return it to being a family farm someday.'

"'I’m very bitter,' Stone said. 'This is not the way we wanted to see this go. Yeah, I would love to see it continue on as a farm of some kind but damn the state of Maine for putting me in this position.'"

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#MaineFarms#SolarFarms#ContaminatedFarmland
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‘#ForeverChemicals’ Are Found in Some #Milk, Including #Organic

Story by Lauren Kirchner
May 2, 2024

"It was November 2016 when one of the earliest warning signs flashed, in the form of an unassuming and very unlucky dairy farm in #Arundel, #Maine.

"That’s when Fred Stone learned that water on his farm contained high levels of #PFAS. The source of the pollution was later found to be recycled sewage #sludge, which he had been told for many years was a safe #fertilizer. But per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—otherwise known as “forever chemicals” for their persistence in the environment and in humans—have been linked to cancer, immunity and endocrine problems, and infertility.

"The chemicals had contaminated not just his body but his cows and their milk. The land that three generations of his family had worked on for over a century was now toxic.

"Stone took his story public, and similar reports from other farmers around the country followed. In 2018 a dairy and cattle farmer in New Mexico learned that PFAS-containing firefighting foam from a nearby Air Force base had leached into his well water, putting him out of business. In 2022 Michigan shut down a cattle farm because fertilizer it got from a nearby wastewater treatment plant had contaminated the cows’ feed with PFAS. And earlier this year, the owners of two ranches in Texas said that PFAS-laden fertilizer had killed their livestock and made them sick, too."

Read more: msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foo

#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater

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My #MidweekMuseum recommendation (yes, I'm still persisting) is #Amberley in #WestSussex, a little north of #Arundel. It's an open air #museum with plenty of indoor spaces filled with #vintage equipment. Craftspeople working, kilns, rooms dedicated to #audio or #video or #phones, various decades in homes, vehicles (ride the vintage bus or train there), etc. You can also see props from and the mine entrance used for Operation Mine Strike in the #JamesBond movie A View to a Kill.

A vintage police telephone box against a white wall in a museum. A sign above points to the Telegraph Office, and on the wall to the right is a small brown box with the words "Fire Telephone" on it, but the main focus is the tall, blue box reminiscent of a grandfather clock with its dimensions and curved top. It is blue, like the TARDIS, and has similar signage on it. A rectangular black bar with white writing reads "Police", "Public Call", and "Post" towards the top of the box. Below, on a white background lightly illuminated from inside, is a sign reading "Police Telephone, Free for use of Public, Advice and Assistance Obtainable Immediately, Officers and Cars Respond to Urgent Calls, Pull to Open". On top of the curved upper part of the box is a raised open box structure within which there is an orange lightbulb.
A vintage bus depot as seen from outdoors in what feels like an autumnal or wintry setting with the cool colours and a few visible branches of trees with no leaves. The depot is a building with pale brick walls forming columns either side of the large, open entrance of tall, green, folded doors. Above the opening a triangular facia to fit the shape of the roof has the word Southdown on it. Within the entrance we can see some vintage buses, single decker, with wheels with thin tires on them and thick wooden spokes. The buses are green on their lower half to match the door and roof trim, with pale yellow at the window level, and a white, gently curved roof. A sign on the depot door reads "No Smoking" and another on the nearest brick column reads "Way In". Attached to the depot near us is a smaller, square brick building with a green sign across its top that reads "Waiting Room", "Southdown Motor Services Ltd", "Enquiries Parcels", and "Book here for all Coach Services & Tours". A large window split into eight panes fills most of the front of the building with a green door to the left. Leaning against the building walls are four Southdown-branded blackboards with local trips promoted.
A small room in a museum with a low ceiling, feeling a little claustrophobic as the walls and tables alongside are filled with vintage audio equipment and we're very close to it all. The table in front of us, leading towards the left into the corner of the compact room, has half a dozen tape recorders or players, with two large plastic spools prominent on each. Most are lying down, but one is standing upright against the wall. All are plastic, pale-coloured, and two have handles on the front indicating they form a small case when closed up that can be carried. There are two shelves on the wall, the lower level twice as high as the one above. On each shelf there are vintage radios with Bacolite or wooden fronts, ornate frames, knobs, and dials. The lower shelf stacks the radios two atop themselves, but the upper shelf is close to the ceiling and only has room for a single row of smaller radios. We can see eight radios across the length of the top shelf. The far wall that's not that far away to the left is similarly stacked with vintage radios of varying designs.
Looking through the glass front of a dark brown wooden display case showing a few vintage electric and electronic devices, but the main focus is on a device from 1920 that looks a little like a hairdryer with a short metal, tapered front on the front of which is a circular, white rubber disk with small rubber tapered cones projecting from its front. Behind is a faded sign on which in an oval is a woman with long hair holding the device to her throat, and to the right are the words "Polar Cub Electric Vibrator".
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