Boyd Marley, Longtime Principal of East End Community School today

Ailish Dennigan, Program Manager, for the Locker Project, at Her Busy Table at the Celebration

Hannah Morrill, a Face Painter, was Very Busy at the Celebration This Afternoon.

“”””””We must have had between 500 – 600 people show up for our celebration today,” said Boyd Marley, principal of East End Community School this afternoon.  A culturally diverse school, there are 400 students who attend East End on North Street on Munjoy Hill.  Boyd has been principal for the past ten years and prior to that he was assistant principal at the school.  Previously he served in the Maine State Legislature.  Almost everyone was wearing an East End 20th Anniversary commerative Birthday Celebration tee-shirt provided by the School.

There was something for everyone at today’s event.  Whether it was playing soccer, listening to music played by the Hearts of Pine Valentine Band, getting some snacks from the Locker Project or getting your face painted – it was there for you!

Hannah Morrill, said that as of mid-afternoon she had painted a dozen faces.  “And there are eight of us doing this,” she said.  Morrill, is a writer for Wire Cutter when she is not painting faces at celebrations like the one today on the Hill.

The Locker Project, with Ailish Dennigan, its Program Manager,  maintained a prominent and busy table at the celebration.  She said that the well-known and respecdted nonprofit distributes healthy foods to 80 sites in the Portland, South Portland and Westbook areas.  Those sites includes 40 schools in the same area. Additionally, it works to reduce food waste in southern Maine. There are plenty of opportunities to volunteer through this non-profit; you may make a doation, sponsor a school or host a food drive.  For more, please call:  207 – 899-9540.

EECS opened in August 2006 on the site of the former Jack Elementary School, which closed in 2001 and was torn own due to severe mold problems.  EECS was built to modern, energy efficient standards and features large windows, natural lighting and rooftop solar panels.  In 2021, the International Center for Leadership in Education named EECS as a model school for its imporvements in student learning.  EECS works contiuously to realize the vision of “empowering students of the world for the world.”

Tom Pulling, who has two children attending EECS arrived on his bicycle at the Celebration in the late afternoon.  He and his famly relocated to Munoy Hill from Minneapolis, Minnesota in June of 2010.  In the medical field, he said they like living in the area because of its diversity.

For more information on the event, please visit post herein dated May 27, 2026.