Home-brew competition Sign-ups are being accepted through Friday for home brewers who wish to participate in the Fifth annual New England Regional Homebrew Competition set for Oct. 23 in Manchester, N.H. Proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society and The Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine. For more details, go to www.bfd.org/NERHBC. BIDDEFORD Dinners with […]

Westbrook High School, Class of 1970, Oct. 8 to 10, with banquet at 6 p.m. Oct. 9, at Holiday Inn West, Portland. The cost is $40 per person. Other events will be held all three days. For reservations call Tom Dyhrberg at 329-5432. Portland High School, Class of 1944, Oct. 27 at Parker’s Restaurant, 1349 […]

Casten J. Wayne, son of Kye Paradise of Windham, Conn., and Jon Wayne, of Shapleigh, recently enlisted in the Marine Corps under the Delayed Entry Program. Wayne is a 2009 graduate of Windham High School, Willimantic, Conn. Bryan A. Kelley has received an early promotion to senior airman in the Air Force. Kelley is an […]

A group of Maine’s Franco-Americans came together recently to discuss their special experiences in the context of human rights around the world.

Graduations Simmons College, Boston: Kaitlynn Garon, Biddeford; Abigail Delahanty, Cape Elizabeth; Elizabeth Marble, Portland; Amber Bond and Rachel Brady, both of Scarborough; Anna Meuse, South Portland. Advanced Degrees Simmons College, Boston: Julie Pease, Cumberland Foreside, Master of Science in Education; Charles Remy, Gorham, Master of Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science; […]

  Mercy Hospital Colin Nicholas Straetz, born July 8 to Jason and Jenny Straetz, Saco. Grandparents: Lillian Hall, Biddeford; Lionel Bouffard, Saco; Janis Straetz and Nicholas Straets, Mapleton. Great-grandparents: John Straetz and Michaeline Straetz, Gliddin, Wis. Taylor Alexis Levesque, born Aug. 28 to Ian Levesque and Tiffany Maguire, South Portland. Grandparents: Pauline Williams, South Portland; […]