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    May 12, 2010

    Regional Events, May 12

    KENNEBUNKPORT Business after hours The Seashore Trolley Museum will host a Business After Hours event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 19 at 195 Log Cabin Road. Admission is $5 for Kennebunk-Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce members and $10 for all others. For more details, e-mail info@visitthekennebunks.com. BATH Garden club plant sale The Bath Garden Club […]

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    May 12, 2010

    Reunions

    Samuel D. Hanson (Buxton High), reunion and banquet with the Class of 1960 as honored guests, June 19 at Captain’s Galley, Old Orchard Beach. Call Roberta Harris Ramsdell, 929-4529. Cathedral High School, Class of 1960, June 25 at DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant, Portland. Contact Diane McAvoy LaPointe at 899-4636. Westbrook High School, Class of 1945 and […]

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    May 12, 2010

    College Notes

    Graduations Savannah, Ga., College of Art and Design: Jennifer Silverman, Portland. University of Denver: Joel Ouellette, Portland. University of Findlay, Ohio: Kyle Johnson, Portland.   Dean’s List Bentley University, Waltham, Mass.: Meghan Norton, Gorham. DePaul University, Chicago: Dana O’Leary, South Portland. Lasell College, Newton, Mass.: Jonathan Klippert, Cumberland; Sarah Gagnon, Durham; Melissa Kenny and Amanda […]

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    May 12, 2010

    Greater Portland Events, May 12

    PORTLAND Longfellow club plant sale The Longfellow Garden Club is hosting a plant sale 8 a.m. to noon at North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave. Perennials from members’ gardens will be on sale, as well as baked goods.   Peaks Island concert series Songwriters by the Sea summer concert series kicks off its third […]

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    May 12, 2010

    Honor Roll

    Wells High School Second Trimester Seniors – High Honors: Chelsea Babb, Veronika Barra, Madeleine Bunker, Travis Cilley, Lily Colley, Rebecca Colley, Livia Dinehart, Cassandra Dixey, Shelley Duplisea, Alec Gatzogiannis, Duston Hodgkins, Erica Hood, Haleigh Hudson, Patricia Kelly, Kelsey Lewia, David Littlefield, Brandi MacDonald, Amy Macomber, Mattie Paradise, Hannah Peterlin, Nicole Poirier, Noelle Sarno, Emily Wood. […]

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  • Published
    May 5, 2010

    Blood Drives

    The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Today 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sweetser, Brunswick Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nonantum Resort, Kennebunkport 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Boothbay Region High School, Boothbay Harbor Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mercy Hospital, Portland Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., […]

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    May 5, 2010

    Faith takes teens a long way

    A Saco youth group gets invited to perform its original human video at a national arts fest in August.

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    May 5, 2010

    Les Franco Americains: French took early steps in, around New World

    It’s a point of historic pride among Franco-Americans that the French colonial settlements in North America began in the 16th century before the arrival of British settlers in Jamestown, Va., or Plymouth, Mass. Two failed French attempts at colonial expansion are located at St. Croix Island in Calais and in Florida’s Fort Caroline, in Jacksonville. […]

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    May 5, 2010

    Greater Portland Briefs

    AUBURN THE GOOD SHEPHERD Food-Bank has launched the Maine Farm, Dairy and Seafood Initiative in an effort to bring more nutritious Maine grown foods to people suffering from hunger in the state. The food bank has 11 partners including Bell Farms, Cozy Harbor Seafood, Cultivating Community, Jordan Farms, Mayberry Farm, Nova Seafood, Pineland Farms, Spiller […]

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    May 5, 2010

    Greater Portland Events

    PORTLAND Author talk on ecology Sandra Steingraber will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Abromson Community Education Center, University of Southern Maine, on “The Ecology of Hope: Reflections on Parenting, Activism and the Environment.” Steingraber is an award-winning ecologist, Cornell University professor, mother, cancer survivor, former Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year and author […]