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Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset School Committee

It's official: Starting next year, seventh and eighth graders will attend Wiscasset High School. The Wiscasset School Committee on Nov. 20 voted unanimously to move the grades. The…

Members of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s after-school computer club have been meeting weekly this fall.

Students in grades 2-7 have learned the names and functions of an array of…

Boothbay Region Adult Ed

On Tuesday, Dec. 2, Bill Kirkpatrick. LICSW, with the Maine Alzheimers Association will be giving a talk…

Wiscasset Middle School Principal Bruce Scally

If no school closes in Wiscasset, Interim Superintendent Lyford Beverage said he wouldn’t be able to look taxpayers in the eye, knowing the impact three schools will continue to have on a town…

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will be conducting a two evening snowmobile safety course at Boothbay Region Adult Ed on Dec. 2 and…

Anne Atwell-McLeod and Nancie Atwell will be speaking at the The National Council of Teachers of English’s…

Wiscasset School Department

Thursday night, Nov. 20 at Wiscasset Middle School, the town’s residents have the chance to say or ask anything about the Dec. 9 referendum on plans to close Wiscasset Primary School. The public…

During the first two weeks at Boothbay Region Adult Ed take a computer course to learn to keep your computer safe and secure, become more proficient…

Wiscasset School Committee
Andrea Main

Wiscasset is moving closer to having its seventh and eight grades at Wiscasset High School next year. At a workshop Nov. 17, the Wiscasset School Committee supported the grades’ move…

Wiscasset School Committee

Wiscasset School Committee Chairman Steve Smith said Monday he has approached Regional School Unit 1’s board chairman Tim Harkins about the possibility of talks to consider making the Bath-based…

American Legion Post 54, Dale Skillin, Jim Savage, Neil Page, Ridge Barnes

Replacing an American flag in Wiscasset High School’s Stover Auditorium on Nov. 14, students and staff took the opportunity to honor the local education icon the gym is named for; hear some lesser…

What a fun and musical day we had at Story Hour this week at the Wiscasset Public Library.

Wiscasset’s very own Mat O’Donnell got the children singing and dancing with classic songs played…

"Raccoons and Ripe Corn" by Jim Arnosky gave the children at this week’s Story Hour an inside view of cornfields at night and what a group of hungry raccoons are usually up to. In the crisp autumn…

An Intro to Microsoft Excel course being offered through Central Lincoln County Adult Education begins Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta. The course will…

An eighth grade Family Night will be held at Lincoln Academy on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 6:30 p.m. The event will begin in the Poe Theater on the school’s campus, 81…

Wiscasset Primary School Principal Mona Schlein

Whatever path Wiscasset takes to cut its excess school space, Wiscasset Middle School Principal Bruce Scally and Wiscasset Primary School Principal Mona Schlein said Nov. 13, their staff members…

Absentee ballots are now available at the Wiscasset town clerk’s office for the Dec. 9 vote regarding the future of Wiscasset Primary School.

Voters will either let stand the School…

Joshua Kramley, Haley Davis, Wicasset Police Officer Perry Hatch

Wiscasset High School sophomore Joshua Kramley has noticed a change this school year. He’s not hearing some students be rude to their teachers, like he was hearing last year.

Wiscasset High School

After three weeks in the Maine wilderness, canoeing between 5 and 17 miles a day, portaging across rough trails and trying to sleep in tents when the rain poured, what was Colleen Hendricks most…

Wiscasset High School

During one week last summer, the lives of 11 young basketball players changed forever. They went from being underdogs to winning it all and bringing home the national trophy.

They are the…

Learn to take great photos with your camera! “Get to Know Your Digital Camera” taught by Leisha MacDougall will help you gain a better understand your camera’s features. Bring your digital camera…

The Center for Teaching and Learning's fifth through eighth graders continued their year-long field studies, helping New England scientists find…

From Oct. 20-23, the Wiscasset Middle School eighth grade went on a three-night, four-day trip to Chewonki, Wiscasset’s own environmental education hands-on learning center. The annual Chewonki…

During mid-Novmber at Boothbay Region Adult Ed you can increase your skill using Microsoft Excel, become more familiar with the functions and…

The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 demonstration school in Edgecomb, welcomed another group of teacher-interns last week from New York and Massachusetts.…

The two Wiscasset schools that could drop to one next year will be the focus of tours and a discussion November 13, ahead of a December 9 vote over plans to close Wiscasset Primary School. The…

Central Lincoln County Adult Education

If you have suffered through pastry mishaps or wondered what to do about runny pie filling, join instructor Debra L. Arter for an evening of pie making in “My Oh My, Love That Pie…

“We always hope we never have to respond to a homicide, it's our worst nightmare, but unfortunately it happens,” said Stevie Colburn, services director at New Hope For Women.

New Hope For…

Central Lincoln County Adult Education

Central Lincoln County Adult Education and Miles Hospital are teaming up to offer a seven session personal support specialist (PSS) class beginning Monday, Dec. 1.

A few slots are still…

The Bath Regional Career and Technical Center will hold its annual open house on Thursday, Nov. 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. This is an opportunity for the public to experience high-quality vocational-…

Wiscasset High School

Gargoyles, ghosts, reindeer, Nicki Minaj, Hipster Sleeping Beauty, hooded evil-doers from “The Purge,” three blind mice, the cast from “Alice in Wonderland,” a hairy-footed hobbit and a grocery…

Mrs. Hallowell's kindergarten and Miss Brown's second grade classes came together as authors in a lovely outdoor classroom last week at Wiscasset Primary School.

Miss Brown's class shared…

Midcoast Printmakers announced a new Saturday workshop to be held at their studio workshop on Main Street in Damariscotta on Saturday, Nov. 8.

If you passed at least one GED test, you have until the end of this year to combine existing GED scores with HiSet scores to achieve your high…

“Madness is the cruelest prison,” says Dr. Henry Jekyll during a visit with his father in a London asylum.

Little did…

Many book characters came to life at the Wiscasset Public Library on the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 17 to compete for prizes in the categories of scariest, most original and most authentic.

The smell of fresh bread baking is almost irresistible, and so is the upcoming Central Lincoln County Adult Education course Bake the Night Away offered, Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. at…

Teens To Trails (T3) is pleased to announce this year’s Outing Club grant recipients from 16 high schools across the state, including Boothbay Region and Wiscasset…

Wiscasset Middle School
Wiscasset Middle School teacher Katie Loubier

Today’s teens and preteens aren’t the only ones up on the latest themes in young adult fiction. Katie Loubier is, too.

Wiscasset Middle School’s new reading interventionist can talk about…

There are 142 students in Wiscasset's special education department, which spans from the primary to the high school level. These students are supported by a staff of seven district-wide staff…

Come to the FARMS Community Kitchen (upstairs over the Rising Tide Community Market in Damariscotta) and learn what sea vegetables are, how they contribute to good health, and how to cook them.…

The Wiscasset Middle School will be having a Scholastic Book Fair.The book fair will be open to the public on Monday, Nov. 3 and Tuesday November 4, 3-5 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 2-6:45 p.m.;…

The Wiscasset Primary School will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair, open to the public, on Nov. 5 from 1:30 to 7 p.m. and Nov. 6 from 2:30 to 7 p.m.

Wiscasset Primary School fourth grade students from Mrs. Erdmann's and Mrs. Morissette's classes have been hard at work rehearsing for their upcoming production of the play "Baba Yaga."

Just…

Maine Prep is offering a Brunswick SAT prep course beginning Nov. 18 specially geared to high school juniors who plan to apply Early Decision to college.

Over the past two weeks, students at the Center for Teaching and Learning have enjoyed hearing from some special visitors at Morning Meeting.

Each year, Heartwood Theater and Lincoln Academy (LA) mesh resources, providing exceptional opportunities for students to learn the rigors and rewards of live performance, while being nurtured,…

Wiscasset School Committee

Wiscasset will seek a two-year delay on new high school graduation rules. If the Maine Department of Education grants the request, this year’s seventh grade, the class of 2020, will be the first…

Wiscasset School Committee
Glen Craig, Michael Dunn

A decision will need to wait on whether seventh and eighth grades will move from Wiscasset Middle School to Wiscasset High School next year. School committee members expressed varying levels of…

Come to the FARMS Community Kitchen (upstairs over the Rising Tide Community Market in Damariscotta) and explore the wonders and possibilities of pressure cooking with whole foods cook Sharon…