May 2014
Patten Free Library hosts local author Brian Daniels
BATH On Tuesday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m., Patten Free Library in Bath hosts Brian Daniels, author of “Thoughts of an Average Joe” (Islandport Press 2014). In 2009, Daniels created Joe Wright—a clueless, middleaged, thick-around-the-middle man hopelessly stuck in the twentieth century. Thoughts of an Average Joe is the hilarious rambling of a man whose […]
Author luncheon in South Freeport
SOUTH FREEPORT Acclaimed author Sharon Peters, a career journalist who grew up in Bangor, Maine and has worked at newspapers throughout the country, will speak about her book: “Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor’s Heart,” at South Freeport Congregational Church, UCC, 98 South Freeport Road, in South Freeport on June 6th […]
WBHS to hold annual meeting
WEST BATH The West Bath Historical Society will hold its annual meeting and pot luck supper on Thursday, June 5, at the Old West Bath Meeting House on Berry’s Mill Road at 6 pm. As usual, this event is free and open to the public. The highlight of the evening will be an illustrated talk […]
Fifth-graders re-enact Civil War battle
Fifth-graders at Harriet Beecher Stowe School on Thursday partcipated in the annual re-enactment of Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. The event was the culmination of the fifth grade’s study of the Civil War. Nearby the “battlefield” on Stowe Field, a brass band performed Civil War-era music, and Union and Confederate encampments were also […]
Grade 5 ‘graduating’ to middle school
BRUNSWICK Brunswick’s fifth-graders will soon be a part of the junior high school. The school board voted 7-2 for the junior high school to absorb up to the entire fifth grade, with board members Michele Joyce and Rich Ellis in opposition. The change comes because Harriet Beecher Stowe is experiencing a population bubble. Opened in […]