100th Day of School Celebration ~ News ~ Kittery’s Toracinta Aboard USS Oakland

NORTH BERWICKFebruary 17 marked the “100th day of school” celebration at North Berwick Elementary School. Students, school staff, and the community teamed up to collect donations of food and personal items to help support

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This funding in the government appropriations law builds upon investments previously secured for infrastructure upgrades at PNSY, including $475 million for PNSY’s Dry Dock #1 project friends and neighbors in need. This year, with the help of Hannaford Supermarket, the North Berwick Police Department along with K9 Maverick, the school donated 100 cans of dog food and 100 cans of tuna fish to the North Berwick Food Pantry. in the FY 2022 Military Construction funding bill that was signed into law last year. Currently, Dry Dock #1 can only accommodate Los Angeles-class submarines, which means it will be rendered obsolete when LAclass submarines are removed from service in the 2030s. Failure to modernize the dry dock would result in 20 deferred submarine maintenance availabilities through 2040, which would risk Navy submarines’ ability to perform their missions world-wide. Image from www.navsea. navy.mil.

KITTERY / SINGAPOREEnsign Ira Toracinta, from Kittery, recently manned the deck station in the pilot house aboard Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Oakland (LCS 24) as the ship sailed out of Changi Naval Base, Singapore. The USS Oakland, part of Destroyer Squadron 7, is on a rotational deployment operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. For more information, visit www.outreach.navy.mil and www.facebook.com/navyout

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