KENNEBUNK Japanese fiction program The Kennebunk Free Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer “Family and Self in 20th Century Japanese Fiction,” a Let’s Talk About It free reading and discussion group. The group will be facilitated by former college professor Patricia Parker, who also taught in Japan and South Korea. […]
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Military Notes, Jan. 5, 2011
Navy Lt. j.g. Glenn C. Diller has been designated a Naval Aviator after months of flight training and has received the coveted “Wings of Gold” while serving with Training Air Wing One, Merdian, Miss. He is the son of Beverly Diller and Marlin Diller, Jr., both of Brunswick, and is a graduate of Brunswick High […]
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Lakes Region: A new kindergarten unfurls
There’s a new option for parents of kindergarten-aged children in Gray-New Gloucester and the surrounding area. With only a handful of students, Fiddlehead Art & Science Center is about halfway through its first year, which is a natural extension of its well-established preschool offering. “We want people in the area to know what we’re doing,” […]
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Blood Drives, Jan. 5, 2011
The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Today 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., TD Bank, One Portland Square, Portland 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dunkin Donuts, East Waterboro 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Town Hall, Buxton 1 to 6 p.m., St. Christopher’s Church, York 1 to 6 p.m., Most Holy […]
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Briefly, Jan. 5, 2011
PORTLAND THE PORTLAND EAGLES Club hosted a Christmas celebration last month and provided gifts to about 150 people served by Port Resources. For the past few years, the Eagles Club has bought Christmas presents for individuals at Port Resources, an organization dedicated to empowering people with developmental disabilities to live rich and fulfilling lives in […]
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Maine homeopath off to Tanzania to help AIDS patients
Dr. Wendy Pollock of Portland will work in an area near Kilimanjaro.
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Juliana L’Heureux: Bangor songwriter featured in ‘Green Book of Songs’
Joe Pickering of Bangor has written original lyrics for more than 100 songs about Maine and New England. He often uses baseball as a background for the lyrics he writes about legendary figures who made a difference in other people’s lives. Pickering, who grew up in Lynn, Mass., wrote his first lyrics when he was […]
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Events, Dec. 29-Jan. 5, 2011
KENNEBUNK Plunge for Caring Unlimited Caring Unlimited will ring in the new year at 11 a.m. Saturday while raising money to benefit victims of domestic violence. That is when the organization will host its 10th annual Atlantic Plunge at Gooch’s Beach. Funds raised will support services, which include a 24-hour hotline, emergency sheltering, transitional housing, […]
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Lakes Region: Local loon expertise finds national use
Gorham may not be known for too much on the national stage, but for the past six years it’s been home to the Biodiversity Research Institute, a nonprofit started by Dave Evers 12 years ago. Our mystical lake dwellers, loons, are what brought him to Maine. The organization has practically doubled in size this past […]
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Military Notes, Dec. 29
Navy Seaman Apprentice Michael W. Stone, son of Merribeth Stone of Portland and Douglass Stone of Harpswell, recently completed Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Stone is a 2010 graduate of Mount Ararat High School, Topsham. Second Lt. Seth R. Coolbrith graduated in October from Army Ranger School at Fort […]