PALERMO — Palermo American Legion, Post 163, has announced the winners of its recent raffle drawing.
August 2013
College students receive recognition
BANGOR — Chance A. Everett of Fairfield was name to the spring 2013 semester dean’s list at Husson University.
Echo Lake Association to meet Aug. 3
FAYETTE — Echo Lake Association will hold its annual meeting Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Fayette Elementary School, Route 17.
Benefit 5K, fun run set for Aug. 3
WASHINGTON — The Washington 5K Run and One-Mile Fun Run will start at 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at Prescott Memorial School, 100 Waldoboro Road.
Sidney Historical Society lists car show winners
SIDNEY — Sidney Historical Society has announced the winners of its Antique Car and Tractor Show held recently at Silver Spur Riding Club.
Inappropriate behavior by three teenage girls
Three teenage girls watching Old Hallowell Day fireworks must have thought faking a seizure is funny. Their parents must be so proud of them and their display of inappropriate public behavior.
Maine school funding study gets mixed reception
Suggestions include boosting the ‘circuit breaker’ program to ease the burden on low-income residents, which Maine recently eliminated.
Bipartisan immigration bill would help Maine, study says
The reforms would boost the economy and create 1,486 jobs next year, a report predicts.
‘The Way, Way Back’ is worth the trip
“The Way, Way Back” writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash are the two Academy Award winning screenwriters who co-wrote, with Alexander Payne, George Clooney’s wonderful “The Descendants.” This gave them the power to go forth and give us for our viewing pleasure, “The Way, Way Back,” a coming-of-age summer movie about Duncan, a 14-year-old New York boy lost in the miasma of uncertainty, bewilderment and adolescent angst of the smartphone age.
MOVIE TAKES
“The Conjuring,” The buzz is overwhelmingly good on this horror movie about two paranormal investigators (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson) exploring strange events in a remote farmhouse. 122 minutes (R)