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KENNEBUNK, Maine – Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, improving communication, and increasing the district’s focus on children and curriculum were recurring themes when the six candidates for RSU 21 School Board were recently interviewed about their campaigns. Another theme that often popped up: all candidates are newcomers looking to step off the sidelines and onto the field to oversee the district during a challenging time in education. A change in the board's makeup is inevitable, as none of the four incumbents — Michael Mosher and Gayle Asmussen Spofford of Kennebunk, Sarah D...

If the nomination papers currently in circulation are any indication, several candidates are poised to throw their hats into the proverbial ring to run for office during the elections in local towns this June. Nomination papers in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Arundel, Wells and Ogunquit became available at town clerks’ offices in late February and are due back there by Friday, April 9. Here's a rundown of how the races are shaping up: Kennebunk In Kennebunk, Deputy Town Clerk Carrie Weeman reported Monday that six people have taken out nomination papers for the trio of three-year Select Board ...

KENNEBUNK, Maine – After filling a vacancy on the RSU 21 School Board just two weeks ago, town officials have filled that same seat yet again. At the end of a process that drew some criticism, the Kennebunk Select Board on Tuesday appointed Gayle Asmussen Spofford to complete an unfinished term on the school board. Spofford succeeds Josiah Currier, who resigned last Friday, citing personal reasons, without participating in a single school board meeting as a member. Spofford will serve the remainder of the term, which ends June 30. Spofford, who has a background in accounting, was appointe...

Kennebunk's new RSU 21 school board member Josiah Currier resigns KENNEBUNK, Maine — The person who was appointed just last week to represent the town's interests on the Regional School Unit 21 board has suddenly resigned. An agenda for this Monday's meeting of the RSU 21 board includes a notice of Josiah Currier's resignation. Town and school board officials confirmed that Currier submitted his resignation Friday morning. In his brief resignation letter, Currier said he needed to resign for unanticipated personal reasons and apologized for his inability to accept the school board seat a...