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SNAPSHOT: Baptismal pool

Jehovah’s Witnesses inspect the pool Sunday inflated inside the Augusta Civic Center during the spring assembly for members of the denomination from Central Maine. Over 1,900 people attended the service that featured baptisms in the pool, according to Joseph Elliott, of Augusta. The Jehovah’s Witnesses cleaned up the Civic Center after a circus Saturday in […]

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A Day of Remembrance

Holocaust survivor Dr. Julius Ciembroniewicz, of Winthrop, stands Sunday at the end of the Yom HaShoah services at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta. The Center commemorated the death of six million Jews during the Holocaust on the Day of Remembrance with prayers by Rabbis Hillel Katzir, Susan Bulba Carvutto and […]

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College students recognized

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The following local students have been named to the fall 2011 dean’s list at Syracuse University: Dianna Wendell of Vassalboro, Maine, College of Visual and Performing Arts; David Gaewski of Readfield, Maine, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the College of Arts and Sciences; Chloe Beaudoin of Farmingdale, Maine, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; and Christopher Petersen of Augusta, Maine, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

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BRIEFS

LITCHFIELD — Selectmen will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to consider signing a contract for another year with Gardiner Ambulance Service and to hear a report on the status of local lakes and ponds.