Faculty awards Bowdoin College, Brunswick: Craig McEwen, Daniel B. Fayerweather professor of political economy and sociology, and senior faculty fellow in the McKeen Center for the Common Good, has received the Maine Campus Compact’s  2010 Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. Saint Joseph’s College, Standish: The American College of Health Care Administrators has selected […]

Miles Memorial Hospital Hannah Marie Jasinski, born April 2 to Dale Jasinski and Jeanna Gustafson, Boothbay. Out of Town Ezzilin Nestor Murton Amato, born Feb. 16 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Mass., to Galen Murton and Addrienne Amato, Somerville, Mass. Grandparents: John and Pamela Murton, Portland; Craig and Ellen Amato, Key West, Fla.   Southern Maine […]

Cheverus High School, Portland: A documentary video submission to the Tyson Foods contest, to raise awareness about hunger in the United States, was named one of the top five in the nation. Tyson Foods donated 38,000 pounds of chicken to Cheverus’ organization of choice: The Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn. The delivery was made […]

Tim Tripp of is slowly transitioning into a position with the Raymond Fire Department. The 18-year-old says the fire department keeps him out of trouble. “I wanted to do something with my life,” he says. “But I wasn’t sure what.” This spring, Tripp will graduate from Westbrook Regional Vocational Center where he’s enrolled in Public […]

Proposed budget cuts to the University of Maine’s Modern Languages and Classics majors are opposed by professors and Franco-Americans at the Orono campus. Budget cuts are proposed because the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences needs to reduce expenses by 20 percent by 2014. Challenging the proposed cuts are professors and the academic staff at […]

Army Pvt. Eric C. Strehlke has recently graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Knox, Ky. He is the son of Valerie Strehlke of Westbrook and Robert Strehlke of Dover Foxcroft. Strehlke graduated in 1991 from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, South Paris, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2004 from MTM Helicopters CFI, […]