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    October 8, 2012

    Births

    Mercy Hospital Timothy Sullivan Bushey, born Sept. 26 to Timothy Bushey and Brittany Madore, Limerick. Grandparents: Karen Bundy, Otisfield; Richard Drew, Otisfield; Ken Bushey and Ellen Crosby, Falmouth; Sue Ordway and Lester Ordway, Standish. Great-grandparents: Goldie Bundy, Otisfield; Pauline Drew, Arundel; Bea Bushey, Portland.  Mid Coast Hospital Ariliani Anahi Mullin, born Sept. 25 to Tanner […]

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    October 8, 2012

    Blood Drives

    The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public:  Monday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Walmart, Sanford 1 to 6 p.m., United Methodist Church, Brunswick Tuesday 7 a.m. to noon, D’Youville Pavilion, Lewiston 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Town Hall, Buxton Noon to 6 p.m., YMCA, Bath Wednesday Noon to 6 p.m., […]

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    October 8, 2012

    Events

    WESTBROOK Life coach, author at library Life coach Deb Bergeron will give the talk “Put the Stress on Wellness: Techniques to Stay Cool, Calm and Collected!” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St. Maine author Monica Wood will read excerpts from her new memoir, “When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir […]

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    October 8, 2012

    Military Notes

    Army National Guard Pfc. Brandon M. White has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. White is the son of Raymond White of Scarborough and grandson of Patricia Maxim of Naples. He is a 2008 graduate of Scarborough High School. Air Force Airman George E. Turner graduated from basic military training at […]

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    October 8, 2012

    Once more, he catches ‘something worth talking about’

    Ed Cloutier goes deep-sea fishing for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to Live Your Dreams.

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    October 8, 2012

    Potluck

    Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., at Mission Possible Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered in collaboration with Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the Center. Chicken dinner, 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 […]

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    October 5, 2012

    Juliana L’Heureux: Passamaquoddy tribe members to attend canonization in Rome

      Three representatives from Maine’s Passamoquoddy tribe plan attend the October 21 Canonization Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, where Pope Benedict XIV will elevate  the Algonquin Nation Native American, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, to sainthood. “I have been praying for Kateri’s canonization for many years now,” said Deacon Richard Phillips Doyle, who plans to […]

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    October 1, 2012

    Briefs

    PORTLAND & ELLSWORTH Community Foundation elects three to its board The Maine Community Foundation has elected Anna Roosevelt of Embden, Peter Mills of Cornville and Karen Stanley of Castine to its board of directors. Roosevelt joined Goodwill Industries of Northern New England as CEO in September 2011 after 10 years at the Boeing Co., where […]

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    October 1, 2012

    College Notes

    Graduations Berklee College of Music, Boston: Christian Saint-Louis, Bath; Marcus Bagala, Gray; Kayla Glovinski, Berwick; Amy Mantis, Biddeford; Alexandra Wilkins, Portland. Binghamton, N.Y., University: Miranda Rodway, Falmouth. Drexel University, Philadelphia: Laurel Chadwick, South Berwick; Eben Peck, Arundel. Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa.: Jonathon Cosgrove, Casco. Harding University, Searcy, Ark.: Stephen Molina, Kittery. Randolph College, Lynchburg, […]

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    October 1, 2012

    Blood Drives

    The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Stonewall Kitchen, York 1:30 to 6:30 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, Saco 2 to 7 p.m., Holy Trinity Church, Lisbon Falls Tuesday Noon to 5 p.m., Massabesic EAST, Waterboro Wednesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Southern Maine Community […]