POLAND — Author, storyteller and radio personality John McDonald will entertain Thursday, Aug. 18, at Cindy’s Dockside, at a fundraiser for A.B. Ricker Memorial Library. Hailing from a long line of Down East sea captains and storytellers, McDonald has spun yarns professional for more than 25 years. He has written for the Bangor Daily News, […]
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Poland Regional High School honor roll
POLAND — Poland Regional High School has announced its 2nd semester honor roll. Grade 9 High honors: Everett Bertrand, Journee Lavasseur, Shujing Lian, Rebecca Meservier, Shawn Mitchell, Hannah Paradis, Allyson Power, Matthew Rabasco, Renee Reid, Lindsay Theriault and Delaney Woodford. Honors: Jessica Alden, Kylie Arsenault, Lindsay Barriault, Chelsea Blanchard, Emily Bolduc, Katelyn Burgess, Elizabeth Callahan, […]
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Library program features stringed, percussion instruments and songs
POLAND — Ricker Memorial Library will present “Under One Sky: A Celebration of Cultural Diversity,” a multicultural, multilingual folk music program with two-time Parents’ Choice Award-winning performer Roger Tincknell, on Saturday, July 30. The family program features stringed and percussion instruments and songs from many countries. Audience members can participate in the singing, dancing and […]
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Military note – Carl Wilson
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lieutenant Carl A. Wilson, of Annapolis, Md., son of Christina M. Kelly of Poland Spring, Maine, will graduate July 29 from the National Intelligence University with his Master of Science in strategic intelligence. Wilson spent 14 years as enlisted, then graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Officer Candidate School in 2003, […]
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Poland names Tibbetts football coach
Ted Tibbetts was present for the birth of the Poland Regional High School football program on a humid September night in Naples in 2004, when the Knights upset Lake Region in their first varsity game. He’s come back to guide the Knights through the next step in their development. Tibbetts was named Poland’s head football […]
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Adult ed program graduates 41 students
POLAND — Approximately one hundred people gathered at Poland Community School gym on May 6 to mark the graduation of 41 students from the Mechanic Falls-Minot-Poland Adult Education program. The graduates marched to Pomp and Circumstance played by Han Libby, pianist. Superintendent of Schools, Dennis J. Duquette congratulated the graduates on their courage to return […]
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Maine Veterans’ Home to benefit from golf tournament
POLAND — The Western Maine Veterans’ Advisory Committee is sponsoring a golf tournament at the Fairlawn Golf Course on Aug. 24. A shotgun start at 10 a.m. will open the competition, which is a scramble format. Much planning has been done for this tournament that will benefit the activities fund at the Maine Veterans’ Home […]