Wiscasset has picked its interim superintendent of schools. According to draft minutes at wiscasset schools.org of the May 10 school committee meeting, members voted 5-0 to hire Robert England Jr…
Education
Sheepscot Valley Children’s House at 127 Federal Street in Wiscasset is hosting its annual Spring Festival and open house event on Saturday, May 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to welcome all current…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle told the district board May 5, he still does not know if one-time member Wiscasset will want to keep taking SVRSU high…
The Telling Room in Portland recognized twelve young writers from the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb. After receiving more than 200 submissions from talented young Maine writers aged…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset School Committee Monday night nodded a proposed $9.35 million budget to offer voters May 16. The 6 p.m. special town meeting at Wiscasset Middle High School is residents’ chance to…
Wiscasset Middle High School
The Wiscasset Middle High School Student Council did a fundraiser at McDonald’s April 28 for Veggies to Table. Students and teachers helped take orders at the window, held signs out front, and…
Spring might be in the air, but hardy, local kids have been bundled up all winter, adventuring along the trails of Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center as part of Hearty Roots Outing…
Edgecomb resident Henry Currier, son of Sarah and Jason Currier, will be attending Maine Maritime Academy in the fall majoring in international business and logistics, with a minor…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its “Students of the Quarter” for the third quarter of the 2021-2022 school year:…
The Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat is thrilled and grateful to receive a donation from First National Bank. One of the most important things we can do to support our community is to provide…
Adults considering career changes or advancement in their field could be eligible for scholarships from the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF).
Short-term scholarships are available for…
It is a special event that can bring together people across ages, interests, and backgrounds. The Merry Barn’s most recent Community Literacy Event did just that – gathering folks in…
Sheepscot Valley Children’s House announces its annual Spring Festival and Open House celebration will be held on Saturday, May 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The annual festival is a fun-…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s would-be 2022-23 budget is lighter than in February, and is onto its next step: The district budget meeting, where residents vote on cost centers, is at 6:…
The Wiscasset Masonic Lodge presented 12 students with brand new Huffy bikes April 14 at Wiscasset Elementary School after students engaged in the "Books for Bikes Challenge."
Students in…
School committee
Spending is eyed to be up for 2022-23 at Wiscasset School Department, but taxpayers’ education tab is not. Finance Manager Cathy Coffey told the school committee April 14, to keep the local…
Parenting is a wonderful and challenging job. Every parent can benefit from learning about child development, parenting styles, temperament, discipline and more. Healthy Kids is offering two…
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Mid Coast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but within the beauty are hazards that can quickly ruin…
Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT) will be hosting a free movie…
Author and artist Kathleen Earle Fox’s new book, “An Early History of the Wyoming Valley: The Yankee-Pennamite Wars & Timothy Pickering” published by Arcadia Publishing, will be available…
Parlons Français, a free French conversation group, resumes its in-person meetings on April 11 at the Edgecomb Community Church on Cross Point Road in Edgecomb. French speakers of all levels are…
Applications are currently being accepted at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) for the Lydia R. Laurendeau Scholarship Fund.
Established in 2013, the Laurendeau Fund provides…
Partners In Education's bingo fundraiser April 1 was a fun community event for all! We had a night of bingo at Huntoon Hill Grange, generously coordinated by the Grange. Total proceeds for the…
Five students from the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb were honored by the Poetry Society of Virginia as part of the society’s international 2022 student contest.
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Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA) will offer its annual Summer with the Past, Discovering 18th and 19th Century Art, Crafts and History for children ages 7 through 11.…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Healthy Kids encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Lincoln…
Alna selectmen
With most of the numbers in, Alna, Westport Island and Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s other towns are each looking at about a proposed 3% hike in their share of a $25,665,988 budget for…
Join us at the Merry Barn from April 19-22, to Celebrate Mother Earth in a vacation adventure for kids 7-13. Everyday will be filled with outdoor play, reading, writing, and art. We’ll…
Applications are currently being accepted for the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Patriot Education Scholarship Fund.
This renewable scholarship supports graduates of a Maine high…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering an agricultural symposium for Maine teens April 18–19.
The 4-H Agriculture Symposium is an overnight experience for Maine youth…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an Open House on Sunday, April 3, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. All members of the Midcoast community are…
It was raining outside, but there was plenty of sunshine in the Merry Barn as we celebrated spring with friends of all ages at our March Community Literacy Event. We read “A Seed is Sleepy,”…
Registration is now open for Totally Trades! Career sessions offered by New Ventures Maine (NVME) online this spring. Eleven sessions are offered at no cost and are designed to encourage…
The 44th annual Maine Student Film + Video Festival (MSFVF) is currently accepting submissions until June 15. All Maine students grades K-12 are eligible to…
March 11 was just another day for most Edgecomb Eddy School students, but it was a special day for one sixth-grader. Jax Marshall was assistant principal of the day. Marshall earned the reward for…
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Environmental and Community Health tested lead levels at Wiscasset Middle High School and Wiscasset Elementary…
The Worthington Scholarship Foundation is offering $7 million in scholarships to eligible Class of 2022 graduates from 59 high schools in Franklin, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot…
A Wiscasset father’s simple message for the school committee March 8 was made via a homemade sign. Doug Wyman’s message read “No more masks: Free the Smiles.” Wyman hoped the school committee…
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg earned a doctorate in history from the University of Liverpool in December of 2021. Her thesis focused on Viking Age furnished graves dating back to the 9th-11th centuries…
Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten registration for the 2022/2023 school year at Edgecomb Eddy School is now open.
The pre-kindergarten program is offered to all children who live in…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
Heartwood Theater Summer Camp is filling up, and registrations are open for students graduating…
This year’s classes at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset are surely a call…
Fourth grade students from Wiscasset Elementary School enjoyed a day of outdoor learning with Melanie Collins at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. The students learned about winter…
Page Brown of Boothbay, and Eliza Paradis and Gage Varian, both of Wiscasset, were named to the University of Maine at Farmington’s fall 2021 semester dean’s list with high honors.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the Maine Department of Education advised Maine school units and child care providers on Wednesday that effective March 9 universal…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle released the following letter Sunday, Feb. 20 on a move to optional masking starting Monday, Feb. 28:
“On…
Maine students interested in careers in journalism are invited to apply for post-secondary scholarships from the Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community Foundation (…
The following Wiscasset Middle High School students have earned the honor of students of the semester at Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. The statement on each student comes from Bath…
