Be a star!

Auditions for the Fiddlehead Players production of “Jungle Book – Kids” will be held Saturday, Jan. 3, 9 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, Jan. 4, noon to 3 p.m.

Auditioners should be prepared to stay for an hour. There are roles for children from age 8 through 18. No acting experience or advance preparation is necessary. Actors should just be ready to come and have a good time!

There is a place in the production for more than 70 children. Audition scripts are available for those auditioning for leading roles, which include Mowgli, Ballou and Bagheera.

Rehearsals will be Saturdays and Thursdays at Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, 25 Shaker Road. A detailed rehearsal schedule will be distributed at the auditions.

“Jungle Book-Kids” is a 40-minute musical play written for young actors. Show dates are March 6, 7, 13 and 14. The cost to participate is $49, which includes a CD, script, T-shirt, cast party and a “break a leg” program ad.

To register or for more information, call 657-2244; email information@fiddleheadcenter.org or visit the Fiddlehead Center in person. The center’s Web site is www.fiddleheadcenter.org/gray.

Support “The Hill”

Gray Community Endowment has so far raised almost $117,000 toward the $160,000 purchase price of a parcel of land on “The Hill.”

If you want to help out, you can send a check to Gray Community Endowment, P.O. Box 1376, Gray, ME 04039, or visit the new donation post located at the Libby Hill parking area.

To learn more about helping with Libby Hill, visit www.LibbyHill.org or call Steve McPike at 657-2114.

Hooray, sixth-graders!

First trimester honor students in SAD 15’s Gray-New Gloucester Middle School sixth grade are as follows:

High honors: Zoe Adams, Taylor Baston, Giovanna Beaulieu, Julia Bowen, Kelcie Brown, Sara Carder, Evan Harmer, Nathan Hennemann, Drew Hersom, Nicole Hofacker, Caitlin Holmquist, Emily Hotham, Lauren Kilton, Sophia Kiyanitsa, Margaret Michaud, Josh Moran, Ashley Moreau, Lucas Nickerson, Ronnie Parker, Jesse Ricardi, Cullen Ronan, Kaitlyn Spaulding, Caroline Verrill, Jeremy Vickerson, Adele Werner and Eric Wilcox.

Honors: Lydia Ashey, Cynthia Bugenske, Simone Bukovskey, Nicholas Cavanaugh, Dominick Carll, Cody Cullen, Hayden Dahms, Skyler Dombrowski, Adam Dumas, Evan Eastman-Small, Caleb Ela, Austin Esquivel, Audree Gauna, Nick Hamilton, Anisa Hayman, Michael Hethcoat, Hannah Hutchings, Taylor Jordan, Andreas Kariotis, Alexandra Landry, Ethan Lessard, Maxwell Liberty, Nichole Lowell, Evan Lunn, Michaela MacDonald, Makala MacLean, JT Magno, Autumn Mains, Megan Malloy, Ian Maristany, Lydia Marquis, Sarah Marston, Hannah Martin, Kelcie McAllister, Natasha McGowan, Brendan McNally, Savanah Moore, Katrina Morris, Adam Peterlein, Jacob Reilly, Makaela Rice, Elijah Roe, Kyle Severance, Karla Shufelt, Kelsea St. Pierre, Tyler St. Pierre, Sudeep Stauble, Kierstin Stritch, Dillon Sullivan, Erica Tynes, Maria Valente, Thomas Weeks, Elizabeth Wright and Tess Wurgler.

Honors average: Ryan Beckett, Dakoda Brown, Mike Cormier, Carson Hodsdon, Ashley Hutchinson, Katie Kelly, William Kenny, Kara Lounsbury, Daniel Madden, Ian Marshall, Jasmine Maynard, Thomas McCann, Taylor Morrill, Jonathon Peaslee, Destinee Pendleton, Bryce Skilling and Alexa Stigman.

Congratulations to all for a job well done!

See you next year!

SAD 15 students are back at the books on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. For more information, visit www.msad15.org.

The holiday break is a good time for students to complete missing work and/or organize notebooks preparing for the end of the first semester. Any Gray-New Gloucester High School student who is interested in eliminating a study hall from his schedule will need to meet with his guidance counselor.

Here are some second-semester course offerings: Performance Workshop, Jazz Studies, Music Theory, Lab Band, Woods I, Metal Fabrication II, Fitness, Drawing II, Forensic Science, Residential Architecture, Sculpture I and II, Story of Movies, Digital Media, Television Programming, Mythology, Virtual High School-Web based courses.

Annual banquet and dance

The Gray-New Gloucester Business Association will hold its membership banquet and fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Spring Meadows Banquet Center in Gray.

The night starts at 6 p.m. with a cash bar and social/networking opportunity. Dinner at 7 p.m. will be followed by a short G-NGBA meeting to award the Business Person of the Year award and address other association business. A dance with the band The Kopterz begins at 8:30 p.m.

The night is also a fundraising event for the scholarship fund. Every year the G-NGBA gives 2 scholarships totaling $1,500 to GNG seniors.

Tickets are $40 per person, $60 per couple, for the dinner, entertainment and a portion to the scholarship fund. This event is open to the general public, who may attend “just the dance” for $10 per person.

Tickets can be purchased by contacting the G-NGBA at 657-2033 or info@gbamaine.org, or at the following businesses: A Finished Look Nail Salon and Androscoggin Bank.