FARMINGTON – A career fair will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 11, at the University of Maine at Farmington. The date was incorrectly reported on page B2 of Friday’s Franklin edition.

In reference to a story on B8 of Friday’s paper, Don Leaver is a vice president at Central Maine Medical Center and John Fields is an administrative vice president. Both men will no longer be working for the hospital because of budget cuts the hospital has initiated.While hospital officials anticipate ending the fiscal year June […]

SCARBOROUGH – A plant auction, sponsored by the Cumberland County Office of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Cumberland County Master Gardeners, will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 7, at Scarborough Downs.The auction will be held immediately after the flower show closes at the People, Places and Plants gazebo in the […]

LEWISTON – The Maine Parent Education Consortium will offer area workshops for parents of children with special needs.The basic “Parents and Special Ed” curriculum, consisting of “Understanding the IEP/PET Process” and “The Effectively Involved Parent,” will be presented in five locations.Staff from the Maine Parent Federation and Southern Maine Parent Awareness will make presentations. Morning […]

ORONO – In an effort intended to provide educational and community service experiences for young people around the state, Maine 4-H plans to renew its Flag and Flower Project, which links veterans groups with youth organizations.The program began in 2003 with the intention of connecting veterans organizations with 4-H groups and other youth organizations, such […]

LEWISTON – St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center announces the following births:Charlie Hayes Robinson, a boy to Heather L. and Lloyd P. Robinson of Lewiston, March 2. Grandparents, Cheryl R. Sargent of Turner, Ralph F. Sargent of Sumner, Jane Pritchard of Llangaddog, Wales.Gabrielle Melissa Bolduc, a girl to Melissa and Robert Bolduc of Minot, March 3. […]

AUGUSTA – The Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine has received another $25,000 gift to its capital campaign to build an educational facility.Judith Magyar Isaacson’s gift is in memory of her parents. Her father, Jen Magyar, perished in Mhldorf Lager, a satellite camp of Buchenwald, shortly before his 45th birthday. Her mother, Rose Magyar, died […]

A headline on C15 in Wednesday’s paper should have said doctors do not recommend using antibiotics to treat childhood ear infections.In the same story, The Associated Press misidentified one of the groups making the recommendations. It is the American Academy of Family Physicians, not the American Academy of Family Practice.

LEWISTON – The following births are announced at Central Maine Medical Center:Logan Michael and Lauren Leslee Robinson, twins to Melinda and Michael Robinson of Litchfield, Feb. 17. Grandparents, Mark and Marie Larrabee of Litchfield, Michael and Gloria Robinson of Greenville; great-grandparents, Julia Polley of Wales, Ed and Louise Robinson of Rockwood, Maxine Morrissette of Auburn.Corey […]

PARIS – Property owned by Maine Machine Products Co., Parsons Road, was mistakenly left off a list of Pine Tree Development Zones in Paris in a story in Tuesday’s Oxford Hills edition.