Kyle Cleary of Old Town was recently promoted to the rank of Brown Belt. The nine-year-old Cleary has been training in Tae Kwon Do for the last four years at Clark’s Tae Kwon Do in Bangor under Mike Clark, a seventh-degree black belt.

Cleary also recently competed in the Friendship Tournament in Westbrook where he place first in Kumite and Kata and third in weapons.