Education

Three Edgecomb Eddy School students were recently “caught in the act of doing a good deed.” Second graders Jade Brooks and Hayden Rines along with fourth grader Piper Carleton recently received…

Gain the skills necessary to get a good job by attending three free job seeker workshops being offered through a partnership of Central Lincoln County Adult Education and Goodwill…

The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, will hold an open house on Sunday, March 13, from 3:30 until 5 p.m. All members of the…

Wiscasset may do more than the state requires for fencing Wiscasset Elementary School’s playground, and may go with a cheaper surface than in 2015, Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot said.…

The P.I.E (Partners in Education) Committee is seeking donations for the upcoming "Mangia, Mangia" Pasta Supper and Raffle Spring fundraiser, scheduled for Friday,…

Mid-March features classes where you can learn more about using your digital camera, increase your skills working with Excel, and learn to tie your…

The Boothbay Sea and Science Center (BSSC) is pleased to announce that online registration is now available for 2016 Sea and Science summer programs at www.boothbayseaandsciencecenter.org. Space…

Wiscasset Middle High School

Wiscasset Middle High School senior and student council president Daren Wood found out that organizing a big event like the school’s nearly two-month participation in WGME’s Spirit Challenge can…

Wiscasset School Committee

Wiscasset school administrators want to make two half-time jobs both full-time and buy some technology next school year, when staff costs are projected to hike. The School Committee got its first…

Carrie Levine, CNM, MSN, founder of Whole Woman Health in Newcastle, is offering three complimentary talks about innovative approaches to common…

Wiscasset Municipal Airport

Any time Maine Aeronautics Association does a fly-in and open house at Wiscasset Municipal Airport, it’s a chance for airport visitors to learn. But the one the nonprofit is planning this August…

This spring timber frame construction workshops are returning to Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC). The first class of the year will be held Thursday to Sunday, April 28-May 1.…

In the 30 years Mark Fourre, MD, has been an emergency physician, patients have gotten sicker, diagnoses more complex and medication lists longer.

When a…

Fifth grader Ryan Clark won the Edgecomb Eddy School Spelling Bee Feb. 12 by defeating 11 opponents. Clark won the bee by spelling “amazon” correctly in the eighth round. Second grader Rebecca…

Next week at Boothbay Region Adult Ed, discover the benefits of therapeutic massage, learn the basics of using Microsoft Excel, and get information about the early…

Join Chef Tanja and the Healthy Teens Leadership Group for this fun and delicious class! The Teens have been working with Chef Tanja…

Brandon Goud, grade 11, also made Wiscasset Middle High School's second quarter honor roll. His name was not in the school's announcement that ran Feb. 11.…

Wiscasset Middle High School

Noah Jones, son of Chris and Tina Jones of Wiscasset, has been named DAR representative for the Wiscasset Middle High School Class of 2016.

Jordan Jones of Wiscasset, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan Campus in Teaneck, New Jersey, has been named to the honors list for the spring 2015 semester.

To…

Maxine Marie Girard of Wiscasset was named to the 2015 fall semester dean’s list at Simmons College in Boston. Her major is business and management.

On Thursday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Skip Gates and a representative from the Maine Attorney General's Office will lead a discussion on…

Looking for something fun, educational (and delicious) to do on a mid-winter night?

Local chef/owner Rick Hirsch of…

Wiscasset High School’s (WHS) Drama students are in the midst of rehearsing for the Regional One Act Festival. This year’s performance is “Two Sisters” by Caroline Harding. 

The play …

It's time to prepare for the 14th Annual Festival of Art for Senior College at Belfast. All Maine artists, aged 50 and over, amateur or professional, can submit artwork for the show running June 9…

Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering Ballroom Dance classes on Thursday nights beginning February 25.

Join the party and learn to dance. This…

Michael Mcdonald

For the 12th consecutive year, Hyde School in Bath, is hosting a five-day music workshop, Feb. 23 - 27. The Songwriters Workshop is designed for aspiring high school musicians interested in…

Wiscasset’s Feed Our Scholars Backpack Initiative is alerting all chowder lovers to save the March 12 date, when the group under the direction of Beth Cowing-Young…

Wiscasset Middle High School

Shoveling in front of Wiscasset Middle High School Friday, sophomore Trinin Jeffrey, in orange-rimmed sunglasses, and a few of his classmates had a plan.

“We’re going to make this lump of…

Edgecomb School Committee

Edgecomb school officials are watching expenditures closely with about 80 class days remaining in the year. In January, Edgecomb Eddy expenses totaled $209,756, which is 8.26 percent of the budget…

A history presentation by Historic New England will be at Wiscasset Public Library's children's room on Feb. 18 at 11 a.m. A drop-in story hour combines books and hands-on activities to introduce…

Brady Nickerson, Edgecomb studio

What color do you feel like today?

That is the question posed by process art teacher and artist Brady Nickerson to her students.

Process art students pick…

Boothbay Region Adult Ed

Learn to play the guitar and make some music! Boothbay Region Adult Ed is offering a hands-on beginning guitar course. Please note the dates listed in the winter-spring brochure…

Tim Simmons of Boothbay just returned from a week in Sweden. As interesting and exciting as he said it was, it wasn't a vacation. He was invited to go by his friend, crustacean scientist Matz…

A dozen Hidden Valley Nature Center members offer their time and talents each year helping to train both kids and adults the skills and joys of cross-country skiing…

The Maine Region of the Scholastic Writing Competition has named ten middle-school students from Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning as recipients of its 2016 awards for…

Husson University recently announced its fall 2015 President's List. Students who make the President's List must carry at least 12 graded credit hours during the semester and earn a grade point…

Lincoln Academy anatomy and physiology students are learning how to splint a broken leg with a life preserver and “unpretzel” a skiing accident victim as part of an unusual anatomy…

Valerie Smith’s journey to medical school began in an ambulance at the beginning of her junior year at the University of Maine at Orono.

A friend had talked…

The winter/spring Boothbay Region Adult and Community Education brochure is an insert in this week's Boothbay Register. We hope you'll take some…

Seniors

Honors: Savannah Curran, Andrew DeLong, Vanessa Gardner, Hallie Hardman, Colleen Hendricks…

The following local students were named to the fall 2015 dean’s list at the University of Maine.

Wiscasset: Ridge Barnes, Maeve Carlson, Winston Smiddy and Hannah Welborn

Wiscasset Middle High School

Teachers serving up fries at a local fast food restaurant and students serving up cocoa at Winterfest are part Wiscasset Middle High School’s all-out effort for a big second half in WGME’s Spirit…

Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap has a simple message for teen drivers: Keep an eye on the road, not on your phone. Dunlap brought that message to Boothbay Region High School on Jan. 29 as…

Wiscasset School Committee

As Wiscasset continues to look for a buyer for the former Wiscasset Primary School, it may have found one for the kitchen equipment.

Alternative Organizational Structure 93, which serves…

This past fall, eighteen seventh and eighth grade girls from Midcoast Maine became the next generation of young leaders in their communities. They were nominated by school principals, guidance…

Wiscasset School Department

Wiscasset is drawing praise for its pre-kindergarten and picking up pointers for making the months-old program even stronger.

“Wiscasset should be very proud of its preschool,” Maine…

Wiscasset School Committee

The Wiscasset School Committee still won’t help pay a student’s way into a June conference. But committee member Glen Craig on Jan. 28 said the panel should have, as it did for the teen’s brother…

If you are of high school age and in a band with others your age, for $25 you can enter the band in the Maine Academy of Modern Music's (MAMM) SLAM, a.k.a. Maine's High School Rock Off!

On Thursday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m., Chip DeLorenzo will be presenting a parent workshop at the Skidompha Public Library on Main Street in Damariscotta on “Demystifying your Child’s Behavior.”