by Debbie Walker Please bear with me and yet another local article about the lock down at Wal-Mart in the Newport/Palmyra store on Friday, August 19. My big thank yous to the Maine state troopers, local sheriff’s department, Newport police, Wal-Mart staff and management, Dunkin’ Donuts staff, first responders and anyone that I may have […]
by Peter Cates A wonderful jazz singer of yesteryears. This is June Christy by June Christy, Capitol T1006, 12-inch mono vinyl LP, recorded 1958. The singer June Christy (1925-1990) was one of a very select group of jazz/pop singers who gained the most valuable experience honing and shaping their craft through working with the big […]
Christopher Crockett, of Manchester, has earned high honors for the spring semester of the 2015-2016 academic year at the university of New Hampshire, in Durham, New Hampshire. Chris is the son of James “Jim” Crockett, of Manchester, and Linda Crockett, of Fairfield, and the grandson of Robert and Patsy Crockett, of Augusta.
Kaitlynn Pelletier, of Waterville, will march with the 2016 Pride of The Valley Marching Band, of Lebanon Valley College, in Annville, Pennsylvania. Pelletier, a graduate of Messalonskee High School, is pursuing a bachelor of science and bachelor of arts in music education and music at The Valley. The marching band performs at all home football […]
FRESHMEN ORIENTATION will be held on August 29, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in the Erskine Academy gymnasium. Parents and freshmen students are encouraged to attend. Freshmen parents are reminded that the school does require a current freshmen entrance physical prior to the first day of school. Any questions please call the school nurse at 445-2962. […]
by Marilyn Rogers-Bull & Percy grams29@tds.net Solon, Maine 04979 Good morning, dear friends. Don’t worry, be happy! Another one of those Mondays when I don’t have very much news to share with you. Some times lately I have received news too late to get it in the column it should be in, my deadline now […]
by Mary Grow China selectmen have scheduled a special meeting for 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29, to set the 2016-17 tax rate – they hope. At the board’s Aug. 22 regular meeting, Town Manager Daniel L’Heureux said he and assessor William Van Tuinen were “very, very, very close” to having the necessary calculations done to […]
JACQUELINE B. POULIN BINGHAM––Jacqueline B. Poulin, 69, died on Monday, August 8, 2016, following an amazingly courageous 12-year battle with cancer. She was born September 10, 1946, in Biddeford, to Wilfred and Gertrude (Bossie) Belanger. When Jacquie was four, the family moved to Bingham, where she would remain for the rest of her years. On […]
No education is complete without the opportunity to discover the world and our role in the global society. Stonehill college students, in Easton, Massachusetts, traveled to countries near and far in the pursuit of knowledge, humanity and service during the fall 2015 semester. Marissa L. Jordan, of Whitefield, studied in Italy at John Cabot University, […]