Bee Semifinalist

Houlton Pioneer Times Photo/Joseph Cyr
Dakota Gramour, an eighth-grader at Houlton Junior/Senior High School, has been named a semifinalist in the National Geographic Society’s 2011 Maine Geographic Bee. Sponsored by Google and Plum Creek, the Maine Bee will be held Friday, April 1 at the University of Maine at Farmington. Gramour won school geography bee and then took a qualifying test, which was submitted to the National Geographic Society. Gramour finished among the top 100 in the state. The state winner will receive $100 and a trip to Washington, D.C. to represent Maine in the national finals May 24-25.