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Blood Drives

The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sanford- Springvale YMCA, 1 Emile Levasseur Drive, Sanford 1 to 6 p.m., St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 178 Elm St./Route 1, Biddeford 1 to 6 p.m., Fire Rescue Department, 481 Goodwins Mills Road, Lyman 2 to 7 p.m., […]

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Potluck meals

Tuesday Annual pancake luncheon, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., to benefit Meals on Wheels. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 11 White St., Rockland. Adults: $7; children: $3. Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., My Place Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered by Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the center. Pot roast, mashed […]

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Events

CAMDEN Singers age 12 and older welcome to join chorus Midcoast Community Chorus invites interested singers, ages 12 and older, to join the 140-voice non-auditioned choir, which begins rehearsals for the 2015 season Monday at the John Street United Methodist Church at 98 John St. Registration is from 5 to 6:15 p.m. followed by the […]

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Births

Several area hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available here. For more information, please call 791-6300. Mid Coast Hospital Liam Daniel Millard, born Jan. 21 to Timothy and Lynzie (Fenohr) Millard, Topsham. Karavellis McMoll Peaslee, born Jan. 25 to Gage Peaslee and Jessica […]

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Briefs

WELLS Junior high student wins local geography competition Wells Junior High School eighth-grader Matt Chase won the school’s geography bee, in the first round of the 27th annual National Geography Bee. He also was the 2013 local champion. Fellow eighth-grader Spencer Poulin was the runner-up and other finalists were Hannah Chase, Covy Dufort, Tori Hayward, […]

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Potluck

Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., My Place Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered in collaboration with Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the center. Roast chicken, stuffing, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $7. Thursday Shepherd’s pie lunch, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, […]

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BRUNSWICK Civil War speaker to tell stories about 5th Maine The next Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table Lecture is set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Curtis Memorial Library’s Morrell Room, 23 Pleasant St. Speaker Curtis Mildner will present the talk “True, Untrue, Surprising and Amazing Stories of the Soldiers of the 5th Maine.” […]

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College notes

Graduations Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.: Kristen Felt, Scarborough, cum laude. Castleton College, Vermont: Matthew Caiazzo, Portland. Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo.; Emilie Garand, Portland. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta: Allen Mazerolle, Falmouth; Kathryn Nickerson, Springvale. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: Matti Richard Ingraham, Cumberland.

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Births

Several area hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available here. For more information, please call 791-6300. Maine Medical Center Jackson Kenneth Case, born Dec. 11 to Chandler and Brittany Case, Standish. Grandparents: John III and Roxane Delaney and Harold Jr. and Linda Case, […]