The following cases were heard in Fifth District Court, according to official records:

Bar Harbor – Yijun Ruan, Ph.D., an American geneticist who has pioneered new techniques to sequence and map DNA to better understand cancer growth and stem cell properties, will be the first scientist to join the new Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (JAX Genomic Medicine) in Farmington, Conn.

BAR HARBOR — The Jesup Memorial Library recently expanded its science fiction and fantasy collection thanks to a grant from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust.

BAR HARBOR — College of the Atlantic’s “exceptional” and “inspiring” focus on experiential learning is featured in a video created by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

BUCKSPORT — Phil Ash has been named Student of the Month for the month of November at Bucksport High School.

BAR HARBOR — Acadia National Park, Friends of Acadia and the Mount Desert Island YMCA have teamed up to celebrate the first annual Great Maine Outdoor Weekend.

BAR HARBOR — The Garden Club Federation of Maine, St. Croix District, encourages college students to take note of three available scholarships.

BLUE HILL — Blue Hill Memorial Hospital is offering a blood pressure screening at Tradewinds Marketplace on South Street in Blue Hill on Friday, March 9, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

BANGOR — The Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners have played their way into the Eastern Maine Class D Championship final.

Grade 9

HIGH HONORS: Jasper Benson-Sulzer, Claire Ciampa, Madison Cole, Finn Davis-Batt, Alice Dillon, Willem Hilliard, Anna Ludlow, David Reinke, Emmaline Richardson, Jordon Soper, Leah Tallent, Adrian Van der Eb.