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Graduate Kathryn Darling chats Friday with her boyfriend, Eelias Hesketh, on the tarmac at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport before the Poland Regional High School graduation.
Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
AUBURN As more than 100 Poland Regional High School students prepared to graduate Friday night, it was nearly impossible for anyone to forget it was happening at an airport.
Behind the parking area, as friends and family of the graduates huddled in and around their cars, a full-size plane loomed over all.
Around the stage, smaller airplanes were parked here and there, near bland hangars, and who could overlook that graduation was happening in the middle of a runway at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport?