Skelton Taintor & Abbott announces that Lewiston High School senior Matt Hird is the fifth annual recipient of the Skelton Taintor & Abbott Lewiston High School Mock Trial Team MVP Scholarship Award. He will receive a $1,000 college scholarship as the most valiant player. Hird is class president and a student representative to the Lewiston School Committee. He was a multiyear member of the high school mock trial team, which was a semifinalist in this year’s statewide competition. He hopes to study marketing at Bentley University in Merion, Pennsylvania, next fall. He is the son of Bill and Lisa Hird of Lewiston. Joining in the presentation are, from left, Skelton Taintor & Abbott shareholder and director Darcie Beaudin, Hird, Lewiston High School Mock Trial team teacher/coach Michelle Crowley, and Skelton Taintor & Abbott shareholder Ronald Lebel.