June Elderkin News Today

Southport seemed to fair well in the wind and rain storm on Monday, Dec. 18. A few trees were down, one near the Methodist Church. I heard one did fall on a house and the support structure for the deck and float at All Saints by-the-Sea was badly...

With Christmas Eve being on Sunday this year, the Southport United Methodist Church will have one service that day, combining the morning service with a Christmas Eve service at 3:30 p.m. All are welcome to join Southport friends and neighbors in...

First, note that the Community Resilience Partnership public meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13 has been cancelled due to the illness of the convener. Stay tuned here and elsewhere for notice of additional meetings. Sorry for the confusion. Another...

Our Southport Central School opens on Tuesday, Sept. 5 with 19 students in grades pre-k though 6. All staff from last year have returned, and the bus schedule remains the same, so returning students will find all familiar. This school year is...

We thank Gerry Gamage, Henry Berne, the Boothbay Region Ambulance crew, and others who responded to a boating emergency near Cozy Harbor last Saturday. Much fun turned into much trouble very quickly as it can on the water. Fortunately those present...

The Southport Memorial Library is pleased to announce that June Elderkin will be our visiting artist for the months of September and October. June is a Southport artist who moved from Boothbay Harbor 60 years ago and lives in her home overlooking...

Used to be we could refer to “TV Guide” for a reliable schedule of what would or would not appear on the tube at any given time. If you looked up Channel 6 and the evening news, for example, you didn’t expect to see WWE Bruno Sammartino v. Haystacks...

We got our first measurable snow this past weekend. Not a huge dump, maybe five inches here on Southport. It started to snow in the late afternoon, light fluffy stuff. But when it hit the warm ground, light fluffy turned into wet slushy. Once the...