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Friday, July 1, 2022
Volume 18 • Issue No. 26
4th of July Festivities Near You Fireworks
Picture Band. Fireworks begin around 9 p.m. Arrive early for parking.
Kennebunk A traditional fireworks display will be held on Monday, July 4, at 9 p.m. at Kennebunk Beach. Ogunquit There will be fireworks at Ogunquit Beach on Monday, July 4. Great views of the display run from Main Beach all the way up to Footbridge Beach, North Beach, and beyond. Fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. In case of heavy rain, the towns will announce a decision online. Rain date: July 5. Sanford Sanford will have sev-
Portsmouth, NH Portsmouth’s annual fireworks will take place July 3 starting at 9:15 p.m. at the South Mill Pond. Rain date is July 5. FMI: www.cityofportsmouth.com.
Other Events eral events happening around Number One Pond on July 3 including a block party with vendors opening at 2 p.m., Maine Attraction Water Ski Team show at 6:30 p.m., music by Fireball at 7:30 p.m., and fireworks around 9 p.m.
York York will have two fireworks shows, the first on Saturday, July 2, at Hartley Mason Park in York Harbor Beach; and the second on Sunday, July 3, at Short Sands Beach, following a 6:30-8:30 p.m. concert of the Big
Four on the 4th York Parks & Recreation and York Rotary will be holding their “Four on the 4th” 4K road race in York. Registration at the York High School is open up to 7 a.m. or until filled, and the race starts at 7:30 a.m. Those partici-
pating in the in-person race can pick-up their shirt that morning 6:30-7:25 a.m. The virtual race ends July 3. To register, visit www.yorkparksandrec.org. Frederick Douglass Reading In 1852, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass delivered one of his most famous speeches, “What to the slave is your Fourth of July,” a blistering indictment of an American idealism that ignored and accepted the inhuman treatment of enslaved African Americans. In collaboration with the Black Heritage Trail of NHe, a community reading of this historic speech will take place at noon on Friday, July 1 at the Colonel Paul Wentworth House, 47 Water St, Rollinsford, NH. FMI: www. paulwentworthhouse.org.
State Mailings Seek to Confirm Voter Eligibility By Samantha Hogan, originally published in “The Maine Monitor” STATEWIDE Yes, the state of Maine is mailing notices to some registered voters asking them to verify their address ahead of the November election. But the state’s top elections official says voters should not be alarmed. The Secretary of State mailed 248,227 postcards on June 15 to registered voters who did not cast ballots in either of the past two federal elections
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clean up the list by determining whether people live at the address where they registered to vote. As of June, there are more than 1.1 million registered voters in Maine. Registered voters have 20 days to respond to the notice before election officials will begin to mark voters as “inactive” on the state’s voting lists. Undeliverable mail will also result in the voter’s registration being changed to “inactive.” Voters who miss the deadline can still vote in November, but they will be asked by election officials to verify their address with a driver’s license or
mailed bill that shows their street address, according to a spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office. A person’s “active” voter status will be restored if they vote. Even if a registered voter does not respond to the mailing or vote in an upcoming election, the state legally cannot cancel a person’s voter registration until after the second general federal election from the time the notice was sent. “That’s a safeguard to make sure that eligible voters are not inadvertently or maliciously removed,”
Bellows said of the delay between making a voter “inactive” and purging them from the voter roll. Some addresses, especially apartment units that have changed tenants, may receive multiple postcards. Recipients should write “Does not live at this address” and mail the notice back to the department, Bellows See MAIL on page 4 . . .
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– 2018 and 2020 – to verify their residence and eligibility to vote in Maine. “Some people thought it was spam or a scam, and certainly in today’s age of disinformation, I can understand why people might sound an alarm if someone who doesn’t live in their house is being asked about their [voter] registration status; but this is simply a housekeeping method,” said Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. The mailing is part of Maine’s routine maintenance of its voter lists under the National Voter Registration Act, and it will help election officials
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Craft Show Celebrates 38 Years WELLS Now in its 38th year, the two-day July Summer Solstice Craft Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wells Jr. High School on Route 1 (1470 Post Road). This juried craft show features more than 80 crafters and artists who display their handmade wares inside and outside the school. Traditional, contemporary, and country crafts are featured, including stained glass, jewelry of all types, pottery, soaps, clothing, wood crafts, fiber arts, graphics, photography, and handcrafted specialty foods. Many of the crafters and artists have
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been coming back for years, and they look forward to making new products for their customers. Among the many artists showing will be jewelry maker Brigitte Delaplace and potter Al Pellitier, both of Kennebunk; Wells children’s book author Steve Burt; and Ogunquit photographer David Sullivan (see photo). The craft show is held rain or shine. Parking and admission are free. For more information, contact show director Rita Poli at 207-967-2251 or rpoli3@roadrunner.com, or visit www.summersolsticecraftshows.com.
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Photography by David Sullivan, provided by Summer Solstice Craft Show.
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