Ahoy Windjammer Days (WJD) fans! The 61st event, to be held June 25 - July 1, is but two months away and those Friends of Windjammer Days have been wicked busy! FWJD board member Pete Ripley announced these fine windjammers will soon to be hoisting.
Mark Gimbel is working with Maine Maritime Academy and the captain of schooner Bowdoin to plan three days of special events in Boothbay Harbor. The schooner will depart from the town dock off Commercial Street on Tuesday, June 6 at 12:30 p.m.
Just one day after her husband was killed in the line of duty, the grieving wife of Chicago police officer Vasquez-Lasso joined the community for a prayer vigil.
Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso’s wife Milena attended the vigil at Hale Park along with hundreds of relatives and friends, many holding lighted candles as they gathered in a circle. Flowers were arranged around photographs of Vasquez-Lasso.