BERWICK Special Olympics benefit to take place Saturday The Second Annual Amy’s Run-Walk, a 5K run or mile walk benefiting Maine School Administrative District 60’s Special Olympics program, will be held Saturday morning at Vivian E. Hussey School, 20 Blackberry Hill Road. The walk was founded in memory of Amy Harris, a beloved special education […]
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Military Notes
Army Maj. Shannon T. Way received the Army Space Badge during a ceremony Sept. 3 at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command headquarters building at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. He is currently serving as plans integration officer with Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic, Peterson Air Force Base, […]
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Briefs
WELLS Ceremony marks reopening of renovated athletic fields Wells-Ogunquit Community School District officials and students and members of the community recently gathered at Wells Junior High School for a celebratory reopening ceremony of the Forbes Field Athletic Complex. The athletic field, named after the late Vander and Marguerite Forbes in 1988, had been closed for […]
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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 Henry James Hyman-Reese, born Sept. 3 to Paul Hyman and Hannah Reese, Brunswick. Grandparents: Rosemary and Jerry Reese, Dover, N.H.; Elaine and Jonathan Hyman, […]
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Events
BRUNSWICK Birder to discuss trip experiences in Australia Marie Jordan will share her travel and birding experiences in Australia from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Curtis Memorial Library’s Morrell Room, at 23 Pleasant St. Jordan will share her discoveries around Cairns, Queensland, and the Northern Territory and the unique birds she discovered there, […]
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Potluck
Wednesday Ladies/Community breakfast, 7 to 9 a.m., St. Luke’s Catholic Church, Lake Street, Rangeley. Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., My Place Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered in collaboration by Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the Center. Roast chicken, baked potato, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary […]
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Reunions
HIGH SCHOOLS Portland High School, Class of 1954, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 10, luncheon at Fireside Inn, Riverside Street, Portland. The cost is $20 per person. For details and address to mail checks, contact Roberta (Snow) Platts at 772-9026, or Carol (Ross) Mikkelsen at 773-7491. Deering High School, Class of 1963, 5 p.m. […]
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College Notes
Graduations Bentley University, Waltham, Mass.: Troy Beauregard, Old Orchard Beach, magna cum laude. Lasell College, Newton, Mass.: Alisa Sweet, Portland. Advanced Degrees Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, Amy Morin, Lewiston, master’s degree in occupational therapy.
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School Notes
National Merit Scholarship semifinalists have been announced for 2015. Nationally, about 16,000 high school seniors (about 1 percent) receive the designation based on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test with the highest scoring students from each state qualifying. Area schools are listed alphabetically by town. The students are: Morse High School, Bath: Balthasar Von […]
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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. Birth House at Birthwise Midwifery School Benjamin Elliott Hoctor, born Nov. 19 to Michelle Hoctor, Sanford. Grandparents: Michael and Nancy Hoctor, Sanford. Maine Medical Center Kinsey Allison […]