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February 28, 2010

Honor roll: Cape Elizabeth High School

Cape Elizabeth High School, second quarter Seniors – High Honors: Nell Britton, Jay Cushing, Hannah Doss, Stephen Homa, Katherine Lavallee, John Menz, William Pierce. Honors: Emily Attwood, Jonathan Bass, Niles Bond, Amelia Bothel, Devon Bottomley, Elizabeth Briggs, Peter Brigham, Thomas Campbell, Macauley Cliffe, Olivia DeSena, Gabrielle Donahue, Matthew Donovan, Samuel Eisenberg, Matthew Feeman, Graham Findley, […]
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February 28, 2010

College Notes, Feb. 24, 2010

Dean's list from St. Joseph's College and others
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February 24, 2010

Births, Feb. 24, 2010

Several local hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available at http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/readerservices/submitbirthannounce.html For more information, please call 791-6300. Mercy Hospital May Lauren Austin, born Nov. 15 to Christopher and Lauren Austin, Falmouth. Grandparents, James and Randa Lohmeyer, Portland; John and Judith Austin, Portland. […]
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February 24, 2010

Spreading the word

A coalition of Westbrook churches are working to let people know about social services that are available.
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February 24, 2010

Haiti relief engages Franco-Americans

Franco-American and French-Canadian humanitarian groups are among those urgently responding to the needs of victims of Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake. More than 200,000 people were killed in Haiti’s capital Port au Prince as a result of the earthquake. Haiti’s crisis is reported by the United Nations to be the worst humanitarian disaster to devastate one […]

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February 24, 2010

Potluck

Thursday Community Meal with smothered beef, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Per person $4. Free dinner, 6 p.m., and introduction to the Alpha Christian life program, continues five weeks. First Congregational Church, 141 North St., Kennebunkport. For adults. Soup and bread Lenten supper, 6 p.m., followed by compline at 6:30 p.m., Holy […]
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February 24, 2010

Slow snow riders turn heads

Scott Anderson and friends get plenty of looks while scooting around at ice fishing derbies and winter carnivals. They are part of the “Iron Butt Vintage Riders Club,” a group bent on resurrecting old snow-riding equipment. The name reflects the fact that this old stuff doesn’t ride like a modern snowmobile. Their motto is “Shocks […]
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February 24, 2010

Greater Portland Events

GRAY Extension beekeeping class University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County is offering a beginner beekeeping course starting March 3. The course is five sessions from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Maine Forest Service facility in Gray. Instructors Tony Jadczake, Maine State Apiarist, and Marc Plaisted, an experienced beekeeper, will lead […]
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February 24, 2010

Greater Portland Briefly

STANDISH SAINT JOSEPH’S College is home of the newest Lions Club in Maine, having celebrated its charter night earlier this month. The Sebago Lions Club sponsored the new club and 24 members were inducted. The newly inducted members, advised by Professor Katrina Hoop, included Kristina Anderson, Anne Becker, Erin Brady, Vanessa Brooks, Stacy Burton, Erik […]
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February 24, 2010

Regional Events

OWLS HEAD Winter transportation talk Representatives from the Carriage Museum at Skyline Farm will head a roundtable discussion on the history of horse-drawn transportation in winter at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Owls Head Transportation Museum at 117 Museum St. The free program is part of the museum’s winter education series. All are welcome. […]

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