Jayna Smith

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Graduation for the Woodland High School Class of 2025 was held Saturday morning, May 31, in front of a full gymnasium. The 37 graduates marched to their seats, led by Class President Haylee Scott to the traditional “Pomp and Circumstances,” in front of faculty and staff, friends and family, and other members of the community.

The dedication of Princeton’s Annual Report was last Tuesday, June 9. This has been a tradition since 1976-77. This year’s 2025-26 selection for the dedication honor is John Leighton. He has been a selectman since 2005 and has served as chairman and road commissioner, and, before that, as animal control officer. 

Excerpts of the dedication pages from the town report read: “John has gone above and beyond by washing the outside of the library and town office, building shelves, moving furniture, putting up signs, placing and removing flags at the cemetery, and so much more.” 

The last Storytime session was with the Pembroke School children, including those from Dennysville, and focused on finding bits of nature to go into their personally-decorated jars. The storybook was the delightfully-crazy Tallyho Pinkerton by Steven Kellogg, which had been a favorite of the Guiltner family and, Storytime leader, Sarah when she was young.

On June 14, the Grange had another successful Flag Retirement Ceremony. The event was led by Lenny Hanson, Dale Holst (shown left), and Jim Sullivan (shown right). (Submitted photos)

Monday, June 16, was the Princeton Annual Town Meeting. Town clerk Sue Lawless read the introduction required by law. All selectboard members – Chair John Leighton, Wayne Croman, Steven Cilley, Shain Phelps, and Becky Hussey – and treasurer Donna Worden were the first panel. Then, selectboard member Wayne Croman presented a special plaque to retiring selectboard chair John Leighton for his many years on the board and service to the community. Then town clerk Sue Lawless gave the results of the election held on Tuesday, June 10. Next, the moderator was elected, who was Denise Hill.

Jayna Smith

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On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, shortly after 1 p.m., firefighters responded to a fire at an unoccupied residential property located at 13 Main Street in Princeton. The call initially came in as crews were already contending with extremely high temperatures, which made fire suppression efforts especially challenging for crews.

Last Wednesday, we began the summertime library program for children, with Alyssa Schmitter leading the young people through books, crafts, and activities. This program runs every Wednesday through August 13th from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Children from kindergarten through fifth grade are particularly welcome, but all children may participate, as well as parents. 

(Photo by Kixx Alderett) See more photos on page 9 of this week's paper!

Last week was the second summer gathering for children at the library, and, as usual, a great time was had by all. The primary focus was on drawing things, with the book The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg as the inspiration. The photos show both the “laid back” listening and the inspired enthusiasm that is enjoyed by the children. The only concern is that there could be so many more attending, but, we suspect that transportation is a problem for many.