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…
Education
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…
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
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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!
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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.”
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“For 100 years, we’ve focused on educating children using the natural world as classroom, curriculum, and playing field,” Chewonki Foundation President Willard Morgan said.
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The board of directors of The Deck House School in Edgecomb enthusiastically announces the appointment of Bar Clarke as interim head of school. A 1989 graduate of Marlboro College, Clarke has had…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee will get back to talking spending Jan. 28. A budget discussion is on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, set for 6 p.m. in the Wiscasset Middle High School library.…
Ryan T. Hanley of Wiscasset was named to the fall 2015 dean’s list at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.
HP Hood announces the opening of the 2016 Hood Milk Sportsmanship Scholarship program and their partnership with Aly Raisman, World Champion gymnast and Needham, Massachusetts resident. The…
Wiscasst Middle High School
Wiscasset Middle High School seventh grader Joanna Collins already knew people weren’t supposed to drink and drive, or text and drive.
“But I never knew what it felt like,” she said Jan. 21…
Wiscasset Middle High School
Edgecomb’s Karen Potter didn’t go to Wiscasset High School, but she showed up in all-out spirit for the school, pre-dawn Friday. With a red, white and black antennae, curled at the tip, and a…
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced on Jan. 21 that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $395,890 to the…
Wiscasset Middle High School
In March 2014, Wiscasset High School won the Channel 13 News "School Spirit Challenge," collecting 58,662 pounds of food which benefited The Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine.
This year the…
University of Maine Orono (UMO)
Registration is open for Maine Summer Youth Music Camp (MSYM) at the University of Maine, continuing a 23-year tradition that attracts some of the state’s most talented middle…
Professional photographer Robert Gorrill, APSA, MNEC will be at Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center in Damariscotta on Jan. 22 at 2:30 p.m. to help you unwrap the box that you might have…
Over 40 Midcoast students, in grades 3-8, from Georgetown to Waldoboro and South Bristol to Whitefield, are spending their January afternoons rehearsing in the Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy, in…
Winter term at Coastal Senior College offers classes for every taste from Lucy Bauer’s art history of indigenous peoples in Australia Dreaming to the modern day…
The Midcoast Green Collaborative, in collaboration with Coastal Senior College, invites you to “An Introduction to Permaculture,” a free public…
The Learning Center at Boothbay Region Adult Ed will begin the winter/spring semester on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 6:15-8:15 p.m. You can prep to take the…
The Damariscotta River Association (DRA) has released its winter schedule of programs. Scholarships are available for all programs. Programs meet at…
Collections continue for Wiscasset’s participation in WGME’s Spirit Challenge food drive. People can drop off food and money donations at Wiscasset Middle High School and…
When the weather warms a little, visit the new brick patio behind the Used Book Room at Wiscasset Public Library to see the inscribed bricks that are now permanently a part of the patio. Some of…
On Tuesday, Jan. 19, Patten Free Library in Bath will reprise its popular workshop series,” iPad for Seniors.”Roberta Jordan, an instruction and outreach librarian at Patten, will offer five…
The deadline for submitting an original musical composition to the Bagaduce Music Lending Library’s 20th annual Young Composers’…
Thirty-one Y-Arts kids, ages 6 to 18, will be participating in the 11th annual Junior Theater Festival at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta Jan. 15-17, led by director Emily Mirabile.
In addition…
The Morris Farm is offering the following classes and happenings to bring in the New Year! Please register by calling 882-4080 or…
Benjamin Chadwick of Alna made the dean's list his first semester at Washington County Community College, which is located in Calais. He is enrolled in their engine specialist program. Benjamin…
The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free workshops entitled Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 and over at the following times and locations:
- University…
People considering purchasing buildings with residential rental units, or current owners who want to enhance their skills and knowledge, are encouraged to attend “…
Jane Carpenter, founder of Maine Identity Services, LLC will be at the Boothbay Region Community Center for the first of its “Evening Sessions” talks, which are free events open to the public.…
New Year’s Day is the opening day for collecting food in Wiscasset Middle High School’s return to WGME’s Spirit Challenge. The school won the cup nearly two years ago by racking up the most pounds…
The Lincoln Academy Eagles swim team continues to excel this season, with six more qualifying times for states made in its last two meets against Brunswick and Wiscasset.
In their Dec. 15…
