Tall Tails Beagle Rescue The following dogs are available for adoption from Tall Tails Beagle Rescue in Freeport. Tall Tails will be at the Paws for a Cause event at Discovery Park/L.L. Bean in Freeport from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 20. Stop by for a visit, go to www.talltailsbeaglerescue.petfinder.org or call 797-5392. Roger […]

Deering High School, Class of 1971, Saturday. Contact Susan Bisbing at 781-3387 or Jimmy Difillipo at 797-5477. Windham High School, Class of 1991, 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Italian Heritage Center, Portland. There will be a buffet, cash bar and music. The cost is $30 per person or $50 per couple. Contact Janice Callahan at […]

Cristina Leake, a senior at Catherine McAuley High School in Portland, was one of seven national scholarship winners for an essay sponsored by the National Foundation of Women Legislators and cosponsored by the NRA. She will attend the national convention this month in Des Moines, Iowa.   Graduations Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass.: Terra Barton, Portland. […]

As a professor emeritus, retired from the University of New England in Biddeford, Norman Beaupre has authored 14 books with another one coming out in August. Due to popular demand, his French language autobiographical novel is now available in English. Beaupre writes in French and in English. In fact, he is a rare writer who […]

Speaking French is in the fabric of the St. John Valley history and culture. In fact, French has been the area’s primary language since the 1600s. Native French speakers inherited their language from colonial ancestors who first settled the once-remote Northern territories around Madawaska. Now, planners for the August 2014 World Acadian Congress (WAC) in […]

HIGH SCHOOL Westbrook High School, Class of 1956, 5:30 p.m. Friday, at Keely the Katerer, 178 Warren Ave., Portland. Contact Bob Tourangeau at [email protected] or 885-9095. Messalonskee High School, Class of 1976, Saturday. Contact Laurel Stevens Nabarowsky at 495-2192 or email [email protected]. Edward Little High School, Class of 1936, 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Rolandeau’s Restaurant, […]

Scarborough High School Fourth Quarter Seniors – High honors: Christina Bilodeau, MacKenzie Bowker, Rebecca Carifio, Alexander Colville, Jenna Conley, Jennifer Dow, Matthew Eaton, Glendyn Hoplight-Powers, Eric Johnson, Stephanie Karwacki, Mackenzie Libbey, Alison Reynolds, Peter Rizzi, Andrew Talbot, Brian Undlin, Elizabeth Vafiades, Hannah Yerxa; Honors: Seth Albert, Victoria Armishaw, Emma Bagley, Zachary Bean, Carolyn Bennett, Brian […]

The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public:   Today 1 to 6 p.m., St. Margaret’s Church, Old Orchard Beach 1 to 6 p.m., Massabesic Regional Medical Center, Waterboro Thursday Noon to 5 p.m., Point Sebago, Casco 1 to 6 p.m., YMCA, Boothbay 1 to 6 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ […]

  Maine Medical Center Twins: Maysun Frances Burnham and River Page Burnham, born July 4 to Michael and Roxanne Burnham, Scarborough. Grandparents: Reginald Jr. and Susie Cram, West Newfield; Harold and Patricia Burnham, Scarborough. Great-grandparent: Amy Peterson, Scarborough. Bennett William Norweg, born July 4 to Michael and Erika Norweg, Portland. Grandparents: Gary and Janice Stockson, […]