Wiscasset School Department announced plans Monday to provide meals for all students during the shutdown. See Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s letter here on how it will work.
Education
RSU 2 schools will be closed for two weeks, from Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 27. It is in the best interest of our school communities, Kennebec County, and the state of Maine to …
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 schools are closed through March 27, Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle confirmed Sunday afternoon in a text reply to Wiscasset Newspaper.
The…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s Facebook page announced Sunday afternoon: “Students in Wiscasset schools will not have school starting on Monday, March 16 and schools will stay closed until March…
As you are probably well aware, at this time, the decision whether to open or close schools is being left to superintendents. After consultation with the Maine, Department of Education and other…
In a decision Regional School Unit 1 Superintendent of Schools Patrick Manuel announced Saturday night, the unit, which serves Woolwich, Bath, Arrowsic and Phippsburg, is closing its schools…
Wiscasset School Committee
UPDATE: The resignation accepted March 10 was from PreK teacher Amy Mitchell; on Friday, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood provided Mitchell’s resignation letter to Wiscasset Newspaper.
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Press release
In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, Midcoast Senior College has decided to cancel its spring term effective immediately. We are also suspending, until further notice, our Current Events forum in…
Alternative Organizational Structure 98 schools are formulating plans for handling the coronavirus. Superintendent Dr. Keith Laser reported during the March 9 Edgecomb School Committee meeting the…
Wiscasset Elementary School first graders visited Goranson's Farm in Dresden on Tuesday, March 10. Students learned how sap is collected, as well as practicing how to tap a maple tree.
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Maine Drama Festival 2020
Boothbay Region High School placed third overall at the 2020 Maine Drama Festival for “War Letters,” directed by Mary Miller and performed by Grace Campbell, Nataleigh Blackman and Journey Bennett…
Kids at the first-ever Circus Stories February Vacation Adventure immersed themselves in a three-day circus celebration. The Merry Barn in Edgecomb was alive with juggling, plate spinning, and…
Coastal Senior College is delighted to announce that Belfast collage artist Deborah Stevenson returns to teach a course at UMA Rockland Center for six Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning…
Want to improve your sailing skills? Then “Sailing Skills and Seamanship” is a course for you. It is designed for both experienced and novice sailboat operators. Topics include types of sailboats…
The Boothbay Region YMCA is teaming up with Sailing Ships Maine to send 24 high school aged students sailing for a week of sail training. Sailing for a week on a traditional wooden Maine schooner…
Female characters take center stage with the students at Boothbay Region High School and Wiscasset Middle High School, both competing in the annual Drama Theater Festival/One Act Competition.…
Morris Farm in Wiscasset is hosting a workshop with the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA) on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost for the two-day workshop is $…
Mangia, mangia! There will be a dinner and auction at 5:30 p.m. March 27. Come out and enjoy a delicious pasta dinner and a fun
auction. Lots of winners!
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Come visit Juniper Hill, a local school founded in 2011 that is one of the first established programs in the rapidly growing field of nature and place-based education and schooling. Our open house…
More than 100 gathered at Wiscasset Middle High School Sunday evening to hear a concert by the Opus One Big Band accompanied by WMHS band and vocal students. The evening included hits from Frank…
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an open house on Sunday, March 8, from 3:30 - 5 p.m. All members of the Midcoast community are…
march 3, 2020 elections
AUGUSTA — Voters heading to the polls March 3 will be faced with one state referendum question, a people’s veto to legislation signed into law by Governor Janet Mills in May 2019.
The…
Maine students in grades 4-12 are invited to submit entries for this year’s Law Day contests sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association. This year’s theme is “Your Vote, Your Voice, Our…
Lincoln Little League Baseball and Softball is open to players ages 4-12 who live in Nobleboro, Damariscotta, Newcastle, Bremen, Jefferson (if attending Great Salt Bay), Bristol region, South…
Wiscasset Elementary School’s third graders explored the properties of square numbers by creating visual representations of arrays with like factors, such as 3 x 3 = 9, 4 x 4 = 16, and 5 x 5 = 25…
Amanda Lyn Marcus of Wiscasset has been named to Husson University's president's list for the sall 2019 semester.
Marcus is a senior enrolled in Husson's bachelor of science in mass…
In anticipation of a summer season of boating ahead, the Wawenock Sail and Power Squadrons® will teach a one-day recreational boating safety course at the Boothbay Region YMCA on…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold its spring open house on Sunday, March 8, from 3:30 until 5 p.m. All are invited to tour the school, meet the…
Press release
A public informational talk, “How to Get Organized for the College Application Process and What You Can Do to Get a Head Start,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 at Merry Barn Writers…
On March 14, Feed Our Scholars (FOS) will hold its annual fundraising dinner at 5 p.m. in St. Philip’s Lippiat Hall, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset. Snow date is March 21. But this event is a little…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s students and staff kicked off the February vacation break with their annual Winter Carnival Friday, Feb. 14.
The morning began with an assembly in the…
The following students in the newspaper’s readership area were named to the dean’s list at Maine Maritime Academy in the first semester of the 2019-2020 academic year: William LaBrecque of…
The following students in the newspaper’s readership area were named to the fall 2019 semester dean’s list at the University of Maine in Orono. To earn dean’s list status, student must complete 12…
Wiscasset School Committee
Fifth grade language teacher Justin Stygles on Feb. 11 presented to the school committee the results of one of the standardized tests Wiscasset Elementary School does. Stygles said the results…
The following students who live in the newspaper’s coverage area attained honor roll status at North Yarmouth Academy for the first semester:
Highest Honors, grade 12, Ellen Hilscher of…
Feb. 10 was rainy and gray, not a typical Maine beach day, but for a group of retired scientists and six Edgecomb Eddy School students, it proved a bright and sunny learning experience. Three…
A timely, urgent, and relevant documentary, “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” profiling Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg, is coming to Lincoln Theater Thursday, Feb. 20 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Friday…
In one district, public school and nonprofit collaborate
MIDCOAST — A disturbing trend of students, especially in younger grades, exhibiting out-of-control behavior has increasingly unsettled schools in recent years, to the point that superintendents…
The following students from the newspaper’s readership area were named to the 2019 fall semester dean’s list at the University of Maine at Augusta: Emily Carroll, Boothbay; Natashia Bauer,…
The Northeast Region of the Scholastic Writing Competition has named three eighth-grade students from Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning as recipients of its 2020 awards for excellence in…
Grace Moclair of Wiscasset has been recognized for achieving academic distinction at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Moclair, majoring in mechanical engineering, was named to the…
The Edgecomb School Committee directed Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 Superintendent Dr. Keith Laser to investigate whether buying or leasing a minivan is the best option in…
Musicians and dancers in the third and fourth grade at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb participated in a favorite Lunar New Year tradition: the Dragon Dance. CTL’s art teacher,…
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour, hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, returns to Damariscotta at 7 p.m. on March 2 at the Lincoln Theater with a curated selection of the festival…
Two Edgecomb Eddy School third graders battled through 18 rounds before Stella Chapman spelled two words to win the annual school spelling bee.
Chapman opened the 18th round spelling “…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2019-20 school year:
Grade 6 High Honors
Ethan…
AOS 98
Boothbay Region High and Elementary, Southport and Georgetown central and Edgecomb Eddy schools underwent standard security measures after threats were made to over a dozen Maine schools.…
Washington has come through with $1.4 million for a Head Start program that serves Lincoln, Sagadahoc and northeastern Cumberland counties, according to program staff and a statement Thursday, Jan…
Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania congratulates Daren Wood of Wiscasset for achieving dean's list status during the fall 2019 semester. Wood is majoring in mechanical engineering.
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