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Baseball and softball regional final highlights https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/112168/ #Baseball #biddeford #Cheverus #fryeburg #Greely #Highlights #MonmouthAcademy #Mt.AraratEdwardLittle #SaintDom's #Softball #SoftballRegionalFinalHighlight #ThorntonAcademy #Windham #YorkMedomakValley

See above - happening today (and every Friday) at 4pm for those near Biddeford, ME!

#SacoME #Biddeford #BiddefordME #Saco #MainePol #Maine

Stop the Coup Protest
Friday, February 28 4-5:30 pm
Susan Collins' Office
160 Main St
Biddeford, ME

Join Biddeford Saco Area SURJ at protests every Friday at 4pm at Susan Collins' office, 160 Main St., Biddeford. Bring signs or not. Stop the Coup! No One Voted for Elon Musk. Speak up against this administration!

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/758315/

#Biddeford #Saco #Maine #MainePol

Hyosis – Entralasys
#Punk #ambient #androgynousvocals #degenerate #final #freejazz #noiserock #pop #postbop #posthardcore #postrock #Biddeford
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike)
https://bluemistbands.bandcamp.com/album/entralasys

#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]."

#Wildfires #Drought #Drought2024 #Drought1947

100 years later: When the #KuKluxKlan came to #Maine, locals turned them away

In 1924, the group started marching in #Saco. But when they tried to cross into #Biddeford, they were turned away by Franco and Irish #immigrants.

Author: Don Carrigan
Published: 10:02 PM EDT September 16, 2024

SACO, Maine — "Traffic zooms steadily between Saco and Biddeford, crossing the Saco River on the Main Street bridge and the Elm Street bridge on Route 1, farther upstream.

"They are separate cities, with a combined population of about 43,000, and they have a great deal in common.

"But 100 years ago, the cities were split, with strong emotions on both sides of the river. They were divided by ethnicity, social status, and religion.

"And into that divide came the Ku Klux Klan in 1924.

"'I think most people in Maine have no idea of that history,' Biddeford native and former Mayor Alan Casavant said. 'When they think of the Klan, they think of down South, but the Klan was here with different objectives and different targets.'

"Indeed, the Klan was remarkably active in Maine in the mid-1920s, targeting immigrants and #Catholics. The dominant immigrant populations were #FrancoAmericans from Canada and Irish, and both were predominantly #Catholic. The immigrants came to work in the huge #TextileMills, and most lived in #tenements in Biddeford.

"Casavant said that was a big part of the division between the cities. The immigrant and Catholic workers lived in Biddeford. The #MillOwners and managers, whom he said were largely Protestant, lived in Saco.

"At the Saco Museum, director Anatole Brown said the Klan helped to fuel the friction from #economics, as well as cultural and religious differences, and that it gained a significant following around Maine, especially in mill towns.

"'Gov. [Ralph Owen] Brewster of Maine apparently had Klan connections and had mayors around Maine, like Rockland, Portland and Saco, where they had Klan ties.'

"Saco Mayor John Smith supported the Klan, Brown said. And when the Klan said it wanted to stage a rally in the city on Labor Day of 1924, Smith approved.

"'John G. Smith ran as a Klan affiliate and ran on a ticket that he was 100 percent American,' Brown said. 'He promised there would never be any Catholic schools built in Saco.'

"The reports were that the #KKK planned to rally in Saco and then march across the river to Biddeford to directly show their grievances to the immigrant community. That, said Brown, raised the ire of Biddeford residents and that city’s mayor, Edward Drapeau, who vowed to not let the Klan into Biddeford."

#MAGA #SayNoToHateInMaine #NewMainers #ImmigrantsWelcome #NoFascism