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…
Education
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…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s students of the quarter for the second quarter of the 2021-22 school year are sixth grader Olivia Whittaker, seventh graders Alana Gray and Kirra Lahaye, eighth…
University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) Interim President and Provost Joseph Szakas announces the 2021 fall semester full-time President’s List and the 2021 fall semester full-time Dean’s List.…
The Maine Department of Education and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) on Wednesday revised the Standard Operating Procedure for responding to a positive case of…
106.9 FRANK FM (WBQX, Islesboro) will be broadcasting High School Tournament basketball beginning tonight, Tuesday, Feb. 15 and continuing through the upcoming week in Portland and Augusta.
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SVRSU
Before Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board meets again in March, if Maine Center for Disease Control stops requiring masks for schools to avoid contact tracing, Superintendent of Schools…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its second quarter honor roll for 2021-22:
Grade 6
Highest honors: …
The University of Maine recognized 3,101 students for achieving dean’s list honors in the fall 2021 semester. Below are local students who were named to the list.
Boothbay: Graham Bryer…
Finding Our Voices
High schools from York to Caribou are bringing the bold, survivor-powered outreach of Finding Our Voices to their students starting in February’s Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention…
The following local students have been named to the fall 2021 President's List at Husson University.
Elizabeth D. Pratt of Wiscasset is enrolled in Husson's bachelor of science in criminal…
Have you thought about getting into beekeeping, but wondered where to start, or whether it makes sense for you? Join Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers for a free informational Zoom webinar on…
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Dr. Terry Wood’s upcoming departure is a “tremendous loss,” School Committee Chair Michael Dunn said Wednesday. In a phone interview, Dunn said Wood put the…
Following a conversation with parents and staff Feb. 7, the Edgecomb School Committee reached a consensus to make mask wearing for outdoor recess optional. Alternative Organizational Structure 98…
February Vacation Adventure Camp
February’s three-day adventure, designed for campers ages 8 to 13, explores Stories and Games from Around the World. After an up-close look at the storytelling tradition, we’ll share legends from…
Darling Marine Center hosts 25 to 30 undergraduate researchers on the Walpole campus each summer. Student researchers work together with UMaine faculty and other DMC-based researchers on projects…
If you are 19 or older and planning to go to college but don’t know where to start, the Lincoln County College Connection (TLC3) could be the solution for you. TLC3 provides one-on…
Update: Wiscasset Elementary and Wiscasset Middle High schools will stay remote through Friday, Feb. 4 and resume in-person learning Monday, Feb. 7, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced…
Clara Mugnai from Alna has been named to St. Lawrence University's dean's list for achieving academic excellence during the fall 2021 semester.
Mugnai is a member of the Class of 2022 and…
Selectmen said Jan. 18, due to the losing town vote last June, they will wait for the next budget cycle to revisit the school resource officer job. “I have to respect their decision,”…
From the assistant editor
Why did you come here, beautiful eagle?
You might ask what we are doing here, also, beautiful bird, ever near as we can be to wherever you light. We have not your wings and eagle eyes, we…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join us for a seven-week interactive, online Zoom course, presented by experienced beekeepers from Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) and Maine’s…
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and The Color Network (TCN) are partnering for a second year to offer an artist residency focused on mentor-mentee relationship building among artists of…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine told Wiscasset Newspaper Friday, he is excited the school department has grant funding for two years of a school resource officer. He hopes to get an SRO…
Join us in February for a three-day adventure exploring Stories and Games from Around the World. We’ll start with an up-close look at the storytelling tradition. Before moving across the world, we…
Lincoln County Republican Committee is accepting applications for the 2022 Helen Weston Scholarship award. This year, two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded. Proceeds may be…
Downward facing dog, happy baby, child’s pose, high dragon, cobra pose: These are but a few of the poses struck during yoga classes all over the world. Practiced for centuries, its health benefits…
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced in Tuesday night’s school committee meeting, the school department will tap American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for a school resource…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle’s report to the district’s board for its Thursday, Jan. 13 meeting states the following
On Jan. 5 RSU 12…
Join Hearty Roots at Hidden Valley Nature Center for a morning filled with cross country skiing, fat tire biking, and exploring the trails with other local families. In the afternoon, kids play…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an online workshop about best practices for winter care of equines from noon to 2 p.m. on Feb. 1.
Workshop topics…
Connect with others who share your interests, from painting in watercolor or the legacy of Francis Perkins, to a study of the moon and Mars. With a choice of eleven courses - 10 on Zoom and one in…
Wiscasset Elementary School teacher Tracy Stover said she has sponsors lined up so every student in her class gets a scholastic book to bring home and keep each month and on holidays.
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Is teaching during the pandemic challenging you? Let’s collaborate, support one another, and envision a better way forward.
In a recent Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez sounded…
