Tasha Graff, an English teacher at South Portland High School, believes that “Macbeth” is one of Shakespeare’s most accessible works. To help that along, this school year she’ll also be using a new play that brings the action right into the halls of a typical American high school. Graff and the other sophomore English teachers […]
November 2016
Posted inAmerican Journal, Southern Forecaster
Yarmouth News
Ceremony for vets The ceremony for Veterans Day will begin at 11 a.m., on Memorial Green, in front of Town Hall. Parking ban starts Tuesday The on-street winter parking ban will be in effect from Tuesday, Nov. 15 to Saturday, April 15, 2017. Poetry workshop for ages 50-plus Martin Steingesser, Portland’s first poet laureate, is […]
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Live in Durham: Scrooge, spirits and more
Tim Ryan, drama director at Durham Community School, chose the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” for the school’s play, scheduled for Nov. 17-18 at 6:30 p.m. Once Ryan began organizing what turned out to be a 79-student cast of students in grades 4-8 for the production, he was surprised at how many of them […]
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Live in Durham: Scrooge, spirits and more
Tim Ryan, drama director at Durham Community School, chose the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” for the school’s play, scheduled for Nov. 17-18 at 6:30 p.m. Once Ryan began organizing what turned out to be a 79-student cast of students in grades 4-8 for the production, he was surprised at how many of them […]
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Three events put focus on veterans
Michael Beattie of Connecticut, founder of Biking for Vets, will speak to the need to help homeless and hungry veterans on Friday, Nov. 11, Veterans Day, at L.L. Bean. Beattie’s presentation, “Cycling for a Cause – Hungry Veterans,” begins at 7 p.m., in the camping atrium of the L.L. Bean Flagship Store. The L.L. Bean […]
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RSU readies for input on name change
Regional School Unit 5 directors have invited the public to a question-and-answer session on the concept of changing the name of Freeport High School, from 6-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9, prior to the board meeting in the school library. The school board discussed the possibility of changing the school’s name this past summer, as […]
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Faces and Places
Dressed in a chef’s costume for Halloween, Deb Daggett, volunteer coordinator for Freeport Community Services, helps Belva Horn of Freeport out of the FCS Thrift Shop with a bed board. Alice Fellows of Durham signs an Oct. 19 edition of the Tri-Town Weekly for someone at the Portland International Jetport, on Oct. 20. The newspaper […]
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Cape High scrambles after gym-floor disaster
The floor of the gym at Cape Elizabeth High School is “a total loss” following a freak accident last week and will be closed through early December at least, according to Greg Marles, the facilities director. Marles said a full replacement of the floor, which is only two years old, is required and is expected […]
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Pownal News
Office hours The Town Office, at Mallett Hall, is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday 8:30 a.m.-6:30 and closed Friday. The office will not be open on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 24. Meetings The Board of Selectmen will meet on Mondays, Nov. 14 and 28, at 7 p.m., at Mallett Hall in the […]
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For unique gifts, Pownal's the place to be
Once again, the 18th annual Bradbury Mountain Arts Holiday Show, the Blueberry Ridge Farm Holiday Sale and the Fuego Diablo Holiday Show – the latter two happening on Loring Lane – make Pownal a great place to be for holiday fun and gift buying, beginning on the weekend of Nov. 19-20. And while that’s a […]