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Published
May 6, 2013

Briefs

SACO Rotary honors service The Saco Bay Rotary Club celebrated 122 years of service recently by honoring two longtime residents for outstanding service to the organization. Al Hill and David Greene have been Rotary members for 62 and 60 years, respectively. District Gov. Marty Hillman attended and recognized their outstanding service to the community and […]
Published
May 6, 2013

Military Notes

Army Pfc. Jared M. Gilbert has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. He is the son of Michael Gilbert of Scarborough, and grandson of William Gilbert of Topsham and is a 2012 graduate of Scarborough High School. Army Reserve Pvt. Joshua Hart has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, […]
Published
May 3, 2013

Send us your prom photos

Going to the prom this year or know someone who is? The Portland Press Herald has a prom feature coming up in June, and we want to include your photos. They may be published in the featured print issue, or posted in our online slideshow. Please include the names of everyone in the photo, […]
Published
May 1, 2013

Send us your suggestion for a new Portland slogan

Got an idea for a new Portland city slogan? Send your idea to online@pressherald.com.
Published
April 29, 2013

Births

Several area hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available here. For more information, please call 791-6300. Out of Town Addison Elizabeth Caler, born March 11 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, Md., to Christopher and Stephanie Caler, Hyattsville, Md. Grandparents: Terry and […]

Published
April 29, 2013

Potluck

Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., Mission Possible Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Chicken cordon bleu sandwich, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $7. Thursday Community meal with shepherd’s pie, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Suggested donation: $5. Friday Friday lunch, […]
Published
April 29, 2013

Events

NEWCASTLE Preserve guided walk set The Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association will sponsor a guided walk on the Marsh River Preserve with naturalist Wanda Garland at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The walk will start at the kiosk, located off Route 1 and the Osprey Point Road. The 70-acre preserve protects 5,500 feet of the Marsh River including […]
Published
April 29, 2013

In Brief

WELLS Underground Railroad studied Wells Elementary School grade 4 students completed a five-week study on the ‘Underground Railroad” with an open house event to share what they’d learned with parents and guests. Sixty-eight pupils participated in the course of study to learn about the historic network of routes and safe houses that helped bring African […]
Published
April 25, 2013

Juliana L’Heureux: A family story of life in the ’40s and ’50s

Brunswick native Robert N. Biette gives local history and genealogy readers a fresh point of view about Maine’s Franco-Americans heritage in a newly published family memoir. “As It Was in the Thirties and Forties: With Ancestral History,” explains the Biette family’s roots as a hard-working middle-class Franco-American family living in the Pennellville area of Brunswick. […]
Published
April 22, 2013

Potluck

Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., at Mission Possible Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. BBQ pulled pork sandwich, fries, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $6. Thursday Community meal with meatloaf, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Suggested donation: $5. Friday Friday […]

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