News

By Scott Marcoux [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] The Eastern Trail began with a simple idea: to create a green transportation route for non-motorized travel through southern Maine. But for the growing number of activity groups and organizations now using…

By Diane I. Dyer [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] For the third straight year approximately 120 third-grade students at Kennebunk Elementary School (KES) are riding bicycles during October physical education classes. Students are assessed the first week of biking as…

By Judy Haley [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] The summer of 2013 was a busy one for members of SETA, a subcommittee of ETA! Their enthusiasm and dedication were boundless, as the volunteers set up displays and presentations to spread…

By Joe Yuhas [Note: This article appeared in the Spring 2014 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] The Southern ETA group has gained gratifying strength and numbers since last summer’s community displays and presentations. Those activities were designed to spread the word of the Eastern Trail and increase support at…

By John Andrews [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] On September 28, 2011, Maine Turnpike Authority dedicated its Eastern Trail bridge, which it had built to close the most challenging gap in the Eastern Trail, a bridge that would allow the…

By Joe Yuhas [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] According to Peggy Belanger RN, who is Cancer Care Coordinator and Oncology Nurse Navigator at Southern Maine Medical Center (SMMC), access to the Eastern Trail contributes greatly to the programs that she…

By Scott Marcoux [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] An off-road greenway is of little use to travelers without a way for them to navigate it, right? The ETA is continuously looking to disprove the local adage that “you can’t get…

by Bob LaNigra [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] What is all that construction going on in Scarborough?? You may have noticed considerable evidence of construction at the Pine Point Road and Black Point Road intersections with the ET. I talked…

By Judy Haley [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] If you build it, they will come! And so they did … by the thousands in Kittery and Portsmouth on August 8, 2013, to participate in the opening of the new Memorial…

By Marianne Goodine, Treasurer, Eastern Trail Management District [Note: This article appeared in the Late Fall 2013 Newsletter. The full newsletter can be viewed in this pdf document] With the Eastern Trail making its way southward, a very energetic group of trail enthusiasts has been meeting monthly in Wells to collaborate on ways to continue…