Charles “Chuck” Arrigoni of Winterport, a city letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Brewer, won a Special Achievement Award for his conscientious attitude on the job and for going out of his way to help customers on his route. Arrigoni was cited for being willing to help fellow employees and maintaining a high efficiency level in the office and on the street.

Arrigoni has worked in the Brewer Post Office since 1996 and joined the USPS in 1985. It was the second time in six years that he received a Special Achievement Award.

Shanna Bodwell of Old Town, a professional groomer at Green Acres Kennel Shop, Bangor, placed third in the Rising Star Competition, Handstripping Class, at the 20th annual Intergroom held at Somerset, N.J. It was Bodwell’s third international grooming competition and the second in which she placed.

Bodwell competed with Dulcie, a cairn terrier owned by Don and Paula Hanson, owners of Green Acres, and in the Poodle Class with her dog, Finneus, and in the Mixed Breed/Miscellaneous Class with her dog, Mikey.

Commissioner Lee Perry of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife recently received the Outstanding Wildlife Alumnus Award from the University of Maine. Perry, commissioner of the department since 1997, received the award at the annual Wildlife Ecology Honors and Awards Scholarship Banquet for the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture at the university.

Perry came to the university as an undergraduate and received a bachelor’s degree in wildlife management from UMaine in 1967.

Senior Judge Frank M. Coffin of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been named a recipient of the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service Award, the American Judicature Society announced Wednesday.

The award recognizes federal judges for significant contributions to administration of justice, advancement of the rule of law and improvement of society.

Coffin, 81, is a Lewiston native and graduate of Bates College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. He was a clerk for the U.S. District Court of Maine in 1947, and in 1949 entered private practice in Lewiston and continued in Portland in 1952.

In 1957, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and from 1961 to 1964, served as deputy administrator of the Agency for International Development during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to the Court of Appeals and he became chief judge of the 1st Circuit in 1972.

Coffin also has been an author of several books, articles and lectures, including primers on appellate judging.