Scarborough to hold
kindergarten night

SCARBOROUGH — On Tuesday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m. the Scarborough Primary Schools are sponsoring a kindergarten information night for all parents of children who will be five years old on or before Oct. 15.

The parents-only presentation will be held in the cafeteria at the Scarborough High School.

The principals of the three primary schools will discuss the Scarborough kindergarten program and parents will be able to schedule their child’s registration and screening appointments during the week of March 15. 

For those who are unable to attend the information night and need to make a registration/screening appointment, please call Amy Pednault at Pleasant Hill School at 730-5250 after March 3.

Questions about the information night can be directed to Mary Stuart-Hillman at Eight Corners School at 730-5200.

Registration packets can also be downloaded at scarborough.k12.me.us.

So. Portland kindergarten
registration opens March 1

SOUTH PORTLAND — Kindergarten registration for all South Portland children who will be five years old on or before Oct. 15, begins March 1.

Appointments can be made from March 1 through April 15. Please call your neighborhood South Portland elementary school to make an appointment.

Cape teen wins Cumberland
County Spelling Bee

CAPE ELIZABETH — Lily Jordan, a seventh-grade student at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, won the Cumberland County Spelling Bee held earlier this month at Harrison Middle School in Yarmouth.

Eighteen area students entered the annual contest after placing first or second in their own school spelling bees.

Jordan spelled “necessary” and “predicate” to win the county bee for the second year in a row.

As county champion, Jordan will advance to the state spelling bee, scheduled for March 20, at the Abromson Center on the USM-Portland campus.

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Nine students at Scarborough High School will be performing a classical music benefit concert on March 11 at 7 p.m. to raise money for the nonprofit, Village Help for South Sudan. After hearing Sudanese refugee Bol Riiny, one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” speak last year, the students wanted to help the nonprofit reach its goal of building a village school in Sudan. Riiny and Franco Majok, executive director of VHSS, will give a brief presentation before the concert. The concert is at Scarborough High School and admission is $5 at the door.