PORTLAND ‘Mad Science of Maine’ The Portland Public Library will present, “Mad Science of Maine: Fire and Ice,” from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the children’s room at the library. Children can watch impressive science demonstrations, such as foggy dry ice storms and gravity-defying beach balls to a Mad Science burp-flavored potion. The program […]

Northern Maine is becoming a writer’s haven for students and followers of author Cathie Pelletier. Her personal love of northern Maine is attracting attention in her writings and teaching. Pelletier grew up in Allagash. She wrote about her 91-year-old father’s life as a logger in “A is for Allagash.” In chapters ordered alphabetically, the biography […]

  Central Maine Medical Center Kaitlin Emilya Norman, born June 14 to Erik and Meghan Norman, Durham. Grandparents: Karl and Nancy Norman, Phippsburg; Ruth Ann Mangan, Auburn. Great-grandparents: Lloyd and Verna Norman, Baileyville; Alton and Velma McLellan, Princeton; Quida Wilkins, Portland; John and Beatrice Blaney, Spring Hill, Fla.   Southern Maine Medical Center Brady Tyler […]

HIGH SCHOOL Gardiner Area High School, Class of 1986, 6 p.m. Saturday at Lodge of Elks, Augusta. Tickets are $30 per person in advance. Contact Michelle Lessard at [email protected] or by mail at 7A Akron Ave., South Berwick, Maine 03908. Kennebunk High School, Class of 1991, 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Kennebunkport Conversation […]

Robbie Dudzisz, 17, is paralyzed from the chest down, requiring many kinds of adjustments.

NORTH YARMOUTH Skyline Farm celebration Skyline Farm’s 9th annual Summer Celebration fundraiser will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, featuring a silent auction, barn sale, pony rides, horse-drawn carriage rides, children’s activities and a lobster bake. The silent auction be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 8 p.m. inside the farm’s visitor […]

Thursday Italian Dinner, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Curtis Guest House, Ocean Park. Adults: $10; children under 12: $5.   Friday Friday lunch, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Haddock chowder: $7; lobster roll: $7; egg salad: $4; other items available; free delivery for 10 or more orders. Mama […]

BRIDGTON House tour for museum The 1870 Greek Revival house, at 21 South High St., is one of 10 properties on the Rufus Porter Museum’s historic house tour from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. An 1830 farmhouse, a Gothic Revival residence and a water-powered coffin factory, built by Bridgton’s first undertaker in 1868, also […]

Graduations Central Maine Medical Center, College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Clark F. Miller School of Radiologic Technology: Michael Amendolare, Brent Rand and Justin Van Soest, all of Portland; Kristina Clark of Gorham; Rhonda Cline of Windham; Katie Dyer, Scarborough; Ashley Firczak of Bowdoin; Kerry O’Donnell, Cumberland. Curry College, Milton, Mass: Danyel Cousins, Brunswick; Ashley […]