Foxcroft Academy Head of School Arnold Shorey has been selected as “Administrator of the Year” by the Executive Board of the Maine Association of School Libraries (MASL). He was surprised by this presentation at the school staff meeting on May 23.  Nancy Grant, a member of the MASL Board and Tina Taggart, also a MASL Board member and the Library Media Specialist at FA, made the announcement.  Mr. Shorey will receive a “Library Media Service Award for Administrators” plaque and a $500 donation to FA’s library media program made in his name.

The Library Media Service award is intended to honor administrators who, through individual leadership and sustained effort, have made worthy contributions to the operations of effective school library media services within the educational program.

BANGOR, ME— Lawrence Barrett, Ed.D, president of Eastern Maine Community College, is pleased to announce that the Selection Committee of the Maine Community College System has awarded the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship to Cody Hand, a New Limerick native and 2012 graduate of the EMCC Medical Radiography program. The Peace scholarship was founded to create opportunities for the exchange of college students between Ireland and the state of Maine.

"Cody is an individual who is intelligent, creative and diplomatic," notes Barrett. "In addition to being an excellent role-model with a great sense of humor, he is forever smiling and represents the best EMCC has to offer. He is the 4th consecutive EMCC student and 8th recipient from Eastern Maine Community College to be honored with the George J.