Wiscasset’s superintendent of schools said she expects Maine Center for Disease Control’s updated guidance for schools handling a positive COVID-19 case will let more students attend school in-…
Education
AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) and the Maine Department of Education has announced further revisions to the Maine CDC’s public health guidance for…
The youth of Boothbay Region Y Arts have been very busy this month. In addition to “Seussical Jr” at Lincoln Theater, caroling on Boothbay Common, and the recent Christmas Spectacular show, they’…
The Edgecomb School Committee is taking a little extra time before deciding whether to make five policy changes. Edgecomb and other Alternative Organizational Structure 98 school boards are…
Auditor Ron Smith of RHR Smith & Company gave high marks Dec. 14 to Wiscasset School Department.
Addressing the school committee, Smith said the department’s carryover balance moved…
Orono, Maine — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about growing…
Students at Wiscasset Elementary School recently brought special guests to school. The students earned a PAWS celebration for being safe, responsible and respectful. Each time the students were…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
Open auditions for Heartwood’s returning Winter Drama Adventure are scheduled in the Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy, on Monday, Dec 13 from 3-4:30 p.m.
Auditions are…
When it comes to decorating a Christmas tree, there are no blockheads in Nicole Ellis’ Edgecomb Eddy School’s sixth grade class. Her students won first place Dec. 3 in the annual Edgecomb Charlie…
Feeling the need for something sweet, but don’t want to make it yourself? Feed Our Scholars (FOS), the group that supports Wiscasset Elementary…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated the estimated COVID-19 vaccination rate of students in each school administrative unit.
With the data release, the Maine CDC continues to urge all…
Wiscasset will find farming out its high school students would not save money, selectmen’s liasion to the Future of Wiscasset Schools Committee, Kim Andersson, predicted Dec. 2.
“I think…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year:
Grade six: Highest honors, Audra…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its first quarter, students of the quarter:
Grade six: Devon Roy and Ella Travis
Grade seven: Genesis Andrews and Connor Knight
…
In 1970, Literacy Volunteers of America began tutoring adults struggling to read and write. One of those chapters began on Maine’s Midcoast. Fifty-two years later, the local chapter is now…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s high school student council did the annual Turkey Thyme fundraiser in November and collected donations from teachers and students to help families in need at WMHS.…
Three local scouts participated in the Pinetree Lego Derby on Saturday, Nov. 13 at Camp Bomazeen.
Owen Perry, 2nd grader (BRES), won the derby with an average speed of a little over 198…
A new initiative is calling on youth, fishermen, aquaculture farmers, new industry members, seasoned industry leaders, educators, mentors, workforce experts, training program leaders, and anyone…
SVRSU
As Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board talked COVID issues Nov. 10, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle called for a break to ask a man to leave. The parent, Windsor’s Kenneth Dostie…
An increasing number of high school students are looking to make a big splash in their future by attending Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. The past four years have seen a 76% rise in…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about winter garden design from 6 to 7:15 p.m. on…
Edgecomb
As school committee chairman, Heather Sinclair wants to make the Edgecomb school budget language more user friendly. Sinclair is working on a worksheet which explains various terms so the public…
Wiscasset school committee
The more students who take part in pooled testing, the better it can work to keep students in school, department officials said over Zoom Nov. 9.
The school committee’s monthly meeting…
Sen. Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, earned high marks from the Maine Education Association for her voting record on education issues. MEA scored…
On Nov. 6, The Morris Farm held an earring workshop with Barbara Gage in the education center. We had a great turnout and had lots of fun! Each participant made three pairs of hanging earrings to…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar about preparing edible holiday gifts from noon to 12:45 p.m. Nov. 9.
Topics include cost-effective ways to make holiday gifts…
All prospective students and their families are invited to Lincoln Academy’s 2021 Virtual Open House, which will be held as a Google Meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 3 beginning at 6 p.m.
This…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the Maine Department of Education (DOE), updated its COVID-19 vaccination rates for school staff.
79.7…
This summer, selectmen briefly mulled having the voter-approved, selectmen-appointed, ad hoc, schools study committee craft a strategic plan for Wiscasset education. They dropped the idea as part…
Earring Workshop with Barbara Gage: Saturday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sign up before Friday, Oct. 29. $25 for course, $5 for materials. Class size: 10-12. Come learn how to make different styles of…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board was onboard with Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle’s offer Oct. 14. Members decided unanimously to have him find out if Wiscasset wants to keep…
Hours before Wiscasset’s school committee met Tuesday night, Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle gave his Wiscasset counterpart a heads up. Superintendent…
I am writing to you today (Oct. 4) to inform you that we have received notification that two students and a staff member at WMHS (Wiscasset Middle High School) have tested positive for COVID-19.…
Short stories by acclaimed Maine writers Monica Wood and Morgan Talty are coming to the stage! Midcoast Literacy, a non-profit organization that provides free literacy tutoring to people of all…
Healthy Kids and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department will hold a gun safety event on Oct. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon at the American Legion Hall, 527 Main St. Damariscotta. According to the…
Students in Trae Stover's first grade at Wiscasset Elementary School receive books to bring home each month and on holidays, thanks to very generous community sponsors! September's books, “How Do…
Students in Donna Footer's second grade class at Wiscasset Elementary School learned all about monarch butterflies and recently released them into the memorial garden at school.
Nicole Ellis is back in the classroom this fall, teaching fifth and sixth grade math and science in Edgecomb. The 2010 University of Maine graduate previously taught fifth grade in New Hampshire.…
A thunderstorm forced a one-hour delay of Saturday night’s Homecoming festivities at Wiscasset Middle High School. It was 7 p.m. before the Wolverine boys’ varsity soccer team took the field in…
New Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Kathleen Pastore tried twice this summer to hold Popsicle with the Principal events, but due to rain both times, they attracted a trickle of families, she…
Edgecomb
New Edgecomb Eddy School Principal Christina Boursaw reported enrollment hit 119 for the first week of school. Boursaw told school committee members Sept. 13, enrollment included 31 students from…
Wiscasset school committee
Expect no hybrid learning this school year, Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood told the school committee Tuesday night, Sept. 14. The backup to full-time in-person learning would be to…
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), Manchester, New Hampshire, announces the following students were named to the summer 2021 president's list.
Christopher Salatino of Boothbay, Paul…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle told the board Sept. 9, student registrations are rebounding, he hoped by as much as last year’s loss of about 100. He…
The Worthington Scholarship Foundation has awarded 215 college scholarships this year totaling $3.4 million to students throughout the Midcoast and Down East.
The Worthington Scholarship…
Seacoast Community Orchestras invites local string musicians of all ages and levels to join our community orchestra program for the 2021-2022 season. The first rehearsal will be on Tuesday, Sept…
The University of Maine Darling Marine Center hosted a three-day orientation program last week for 27 first-year students in the School of Marine Sciences.
William “Wge” Ellis, associate…
Besides being Wiscasset’s first school day with all students attending daily again, for two new Wiscasset girls, Tuesday was also their first day learning in Wiscasset schools.
They moved…
The annual Sunrise Lighthouse Photography cruise aboard the Balmy Days is this coming Saturday, Sept. 11 at 6 a.m…
With the 2021-22 academic year right around the corner, Maine school districts are searching for healthy ways for their students to return to school. One opportunity schools have…
