Grade 5
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School District Withdrawal
The Regional School Unit 12 board will meet June 26 to consider a proposed pullout deal with the town of Windsor. The special board meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Whitefield Elementary School…
Does your dog have aggression or anxiety issues or problems getting along with others? The Animal House in Damariscotta will host the Dog Rehabilitation Center of…
Caitlin Foster of Woolwich, who is in the biomedical photographic communications program in the Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, made the dean's list for…
Wiscasset School Committee
Unless someone is a school principal, they probably don't know how much state-mandated work comes with the job, Wiscasset's interim superintendent of schools Wayne Dorr said.
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It was a sunny spring day in Walpole when the Juniper Hill School of Alna visited the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) for a day-long exploration of the Damariscotta River and its…
Seeds of Knowledge Education Center will be holding its new summer camp programs at St. Philip’s Church in Wiscasset. This facility is…
Knox, Lincoln county school meals get healthier with grant
The Let's Go! program, a healthy eating and active living initiative in Knox and Lincoln counties, has established a work group for local food service directors to help face that daily challenge…
Wiscasset School Committee Chairman-elect Steve Smith, the Wiscasset School Department’s transportation and maintenance director John Merry, and committee member Eugene Stover recently took part…
Wiscasset Primary School nutrition team member Terri Meehan faces a daily challenge that will sound familiar to any parent: how to…
Graduation 2014
Not everyone gets 41 years in a job they absolutely love, Linda Bleile said.
On June 18, at her last eighth grade graduation as Wiscasset Middle School's principal…
Colleen Hendricks of Wiscasset recently completed the spring semester of her sophomore year of high school at Coastal Studies for Girls in Freeport. Coastal Studies for Girls is a Semester School…
Healthy Kids summer field trips have begun. The combined Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta Playgroups, along with some summer visitors, have already visited the…
Graduation 2014
Symbolism was at the forefront on June 16 for Edgecomb Eddy School's sixth grade graduation.
Kindergarteners and first graders gave the graduates owl pillows to…
Wiscasset Middle School
Depending on the room, Wiscasset Middle School on June 13 was a coffeehouse with song and poetry, or a wax museum of ancient Greek gods and goddesses. Other rooms offered a look into World War II…
Students who have earned honor roll for three quarters of the 2013-2014 school year:
Grade 9: Sarah Barto, Jenna Bickford, Aidan Carlson, Gabrielle Chapman, Grant Hefler…
Wiscasset Public Library
Our last Storytime was enjoyed outdoors with warm, sunny weather. We sat in a circle next to the library’s beautiful lupine flowers and read Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. When the story was…
The kettlehole bog at Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) in Jefferson continues to astonish visitors. On June 6, HVNC hosted Dr. Bob Zottoli and many visitors for an in depth look…
Ryan T. Hanley of Wiscasset was named to the spring 2014 dean's list at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.
Mason Brewer of Wiscasset was named to the spring 2014 dean's list at Lyndon…
Amanda Silverman of Dresden graduated from Beloit College on Sunday, May 18. Silverman earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
Beloit College is a leading liberal arts college founded on…
Hunter Reid of Edgecomb and Rebecca Hadik of Woolwich have been named to first honors on the Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) dean's list for the spring 2014 semester. To be eligible for first…
Robert Morton Jr. of Orrington was named to the spring 2014 dean’s list at Husson University in Bangor.
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset and Regional School Unit 12 are off to a good, new start together as the district prepares to take on the school department's business duties, officials for the town and district said.…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson is offering a great opportunity for high school students (ages 13-19) to participate in a timber frame construction workshop July 17-20. Each year HVNC…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee's chairman-elect wants the panel to have a proposed school consolidation plan ready to show residents in October. The committee could then get the public's input and…
In a 72-59 vote at the polls on June 10, Westport Island residents decided to stop pursuing a possible withdrawal from Regional School Unit 12.
Town Clerk Gaye Wagner provided the results…
Eben Musich of North Edgecomb received a bachelor’s degree in community and international development within the College of Agriculture & Life Science during commencement ceremonies on May 18…
Wiscasset Public Library
“Did you know there are more than 4,800 different kinds of dragonflies? They’ve been on the earth for about 300 million years — long before dinosaurs!”
The children at the Wiscasset Library…
Wiscasset High School juniors were recently chosen as delegates to the 2014 Dirigo Boys State and Dirigo Girls State programs. Boys State will be…
Teen actors from Lincoln, Androscoggin and Cumberland counties, their families and teachers turned out for the film premier of the new Sidekicks program’s videos at the Skidompha Library in…
Maine Artists
The Colby College Museum of Art will present “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” an exhibition that brings together nearly 50 drawings, watercolors and prints, spanning four decades, given by the…
Wiscasset High School
With much fanfare, a vuvuzela and a song, the Wiscasset High School Class of 2014 said goodbye and hello during the Thursday June 6 graduation.
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D-Day 70th anniversary
In World War II, Chester Crocker of Wiscasset served in the Pacific Theater. On June 3, 1945, a Japanese kamikaze plane struck the Navy ship he was serving on, the USS Allegan.…
Wiscasset Public Library
Poor Duncan just wanted to color, but his crayons weren’t happy. They were overworked and unwrapped and finally wrote him letters to voice their concerns. “The Day…
Adriane Leigh Berry of Wiscasset, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2014, graduated with a major in biology and a minor in philosophy. The college's 209th commencement exercises were held…
A golden retriever named Nell, cairn terrier Bonnie, Lab mix Sally, poodle Hannah and stabyhoun Chance all passed their therapy dog testing in Falmouth on June 1.
All five were students of…
On May 20, kindergarten, first and second grade students put on a spring production called “Celebrating American Folk Music.” Upon arriving…
Damariscotta River Association
The 2014 Damariscotta River Association’s (DRA) Archaeology Field School will focus on the Elisha Hatch Homestead site located off River Road in Newcastle. The school runs for two weeks this July…
Lincoln County
Helen Weston was the first woman to serve as a Lincoln County Commissioner. She died while serving in office. Her husband, George Weston, established a scholarship fund in her memory and started…
Wiscasset High School
Maeve Carlson, a junior at Wiscasset High School, has been honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a certificate of excellence from The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a national…
Wiscasset School Committee
When Wiscasset property owners get their next tax bills, they may also get some questions from the school committee.
The panel on May 29 discussed the idea of a questionnaire on school…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee plans to interview candidates for the job of Wiscasset Middle School principal on Thursday, May 29. WMS Principal Linda Bleile is retiring after this school year.…
Wiscasset School Committee
Partners in Education and the Wiscasset School Committee are continuing to talk about the local nonprofit's possible role in helping to create a vision for the town's schools.
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Wiscasset High School
This year marked the 25th annual running of the Bigelow Laboratory Orders of Magnitude program.
One local high school junior was lucky enough to participate alongside 15 of her fellow…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
When students arrive to Hidden Valley Nature Center’s Level 1 Chainsaw Safety course there is a palpable feeling of nervousness. Some students are nervous about felling a tree, others are gripped…
The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting a free workshop entitled Essentials of College Planning, for adults 19 and over, at the following times and locations: Midcoast Center for…
Rhode Island School of Design/Continuing Education is presenting an Antiques and Fine Art Appraisal Class in Maine with Jackie Sideli, antiques show manager, writer and dealer, on June 25, 26 and…
Joshua Sullivan of Damariscotta has earned dean’s list recognition at Wentworth Institute of Technology for the spring 2014 semester; and Patrick James Moran, also of Damariscotta received a…
Each year, local libraries schedule a program to encourage the community’s young readers to continue their reading during summer vacation. This year’s Summer Reading Program (SRP) FIZZ,…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset Primary School’s top administrators are getting new, key jobs with the Wiscasset School Department as the town exits Regional School Unit 12. Assistant Principal Mona Schlein is moving…
