BATH — The Cosmopolitan Club continues to celebrate its 100th anniversary with its 39th annual Strawberry Shortcake Festival, noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 4. Women of the Cosmopolitan Club will prepare and serve nearly 500 shortcakes made with freshly baked biscuits, ripe Maine strawberries and real whipped cream. Each treat will cost $5, which […]

TOPSHAM — Topsham Historical Society founder and president Dana Cary will lead guests on a tour through downtown Topsham highlighting many buildings designed by Samuel Melcher at 1 p.m. June 30. The tour will end at the historic Holden-Frost house, where tours of that building will be offered along with refreshments. Meet at the former […]

BOWDOIN — Marc Dube recently had the experience of a lifetime: The Bowdoin man was honored on the field at Fenway Park prior to the Boston Red Sox game against the Oakland A’s on June 19, named the Blood Donor of the Game. All presenting donors at Red Cross blood drives in New England from […]

A Lisbon student was among 54 graduating Central Maine Medical Center College of Nursing and Health Professions nursing students honored at a recent ceremony. Benjamin M. Tarr of Lisbon was presented the Charles E. Fortier Jr. Memorial Award, given to the student whose behavior as a whole is indicative of a people oriented person who […]

BRUNSWICK — A free barbecue offers free food and raffle prizes like a gas grill and free heating fuel. The event at Dead River Company, 2 Industrial Parkway, will be a day of fun, food and entertainment to benefit the Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program. Attendees are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food donation to the […]

Richmond High School Here is the third trimester honor roll for Richmond High School: NINTH GRADE Magna Cum Laude: Nicole Knight, Julie Plummer Cum Laude: Autumn Acord, Kelsea Anair, Logan Anair, Nicholas Anan, Rebekah Sue Asselin, Katherine Bowie, Abigail Carney, Brittany Davidson, Keely Dershem, Leanne Gorman, Taylor Houdlette, Kyla Johansen, Hannah McCluskey, Taylor Paulison, Michael […]

WISCASSET You don’t have to be Italian or like spaghetti to love bocce ball remarked Skip Taylor when he announced plans to form a bocce ball club and league at Winters Gone Farm. Bocce is a game almost anyone can play and enjoy, Taylor says. In forming the Winters Gone Bocce Club, the goal is […]

WALTHAM, Mass. — Alexander Pilitsis, of Brunswick, was named to the Dean’s List and Scott Ross, of Freeport, was named to the President’s List at Bentley University for their achievements in the spring 2013 semester. To be named to the President’s List, a full-time student must have a grade point average of 3.7 or higher […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Paul Whalen, of Woolwich, has accepted an offer to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree nominated Whalen to the academy in November. Whalen graduated Morse High School. His parents are Sharon Dohner and John Whalen. In his application letter, Whalen said: “From an early age, I knew I wanted to […]