A three-day painting and drawing workshop is offered by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation next week.
Jim Taliana, a popular Maine artist and art instructor, is this workshop's instructor.…
Education
School District Withdrawal
According to recent rulings handed down by the Maine Municipal Association and the state Board of Education the Wiscasset Selectmen will have a larger pool of candidates in selecting the town’s…
There will be two natural history presentations followed by walking tours of the Chewonki campus on Friday, July 6, from 1 to 2 p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 2, from 2 to 3 p.m.
Each presentation…
The following Boothbay region students were named to the spring 2012 semester dean’s list at the University of Maine in Orono.
Boothbay: Amanda Cotier, Nellie Kelly and Sally Monroe;…
RSU 12
Alna should have a seat at the table when Wiscasset and Westport negotiate withdrawal from RSU 12, an Alna school representative said June 28.
William Stafford is one of Alna’s two…
Wiscasset Public Library
On June 27, participants in the Wiscasset Public Library’s Summer Reading Program became familiar with the workings of the space shuttle program courtesy of Ed Polewarczyk.
Polewarczyk…
Rocky Coast Christian Academy
Peninsula educators and parents alike will open the doors of Rocky Coast Christian Academy this fall.
Chuck House, a former high school English teacher, and his wife Barbara House, a music…
School District Withdrawal
Westport Island selectmen appointed the town's RSU Withdrawal Committee at their meeting June 25.
The selectmen appointed the following members to the committee: Mort Mendes, a member of the…
Poets at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning once again swept the boards in the Poetry Society of Virginia’s annual national student poetry competition.
In the grades 1-2 category,…
On June 12, two special graduates of Edgecomb Eddy School’s sixth grade class were awarded the Sara Leone Outstanding Citizenship Award.
ReAnna Heino and Aaron Densmore were given this honor…
Juniper Hill School’s End-of-the-Year Celebration’s culminating event on June 17 was the planting of a sugar maple tree on the site of its proposed expansion.
The day opened three hours…
Keeping track of student progress involves collaboration and planning, as was revealed by a discussion during a presentation at the RSU 12 School Board meeting June 14 in Windsor.
University…
'Round Town
Hearty applause followed gasps of astonishment as black plastic covering was peeled away from a mural at the newly constructed Woolwich Central School
Internationally recognized Woolwich…
Highest honors
Grade 9: Ridge Barnes, Maeve Carlson, Kayla Gordon, Miranda McIntire, Dylan McMahon
Grade10: Nathan Panarese, Madeline…
Clint Chandler of Edgecomb and Emily Jordan of Whitefield were named to the dean’s list at St. Joseph’s College in Standish.
Alexis Tischbein was named to the dean’s list at Colby College in…
All As
Grade 8: Samantha Arsenault, Gabrielle Ericson-Wenners, Brycson Grover, Colleen Hendricks, Amanda Johnson, Amanda Marcus, Kennedy Orr, Christopher Perkins, Jennings…
Boothbay Region Community Resources in partnership with the Boothbay Harbor YMCA will hold a Set for Success back to school event on Aug. 19.
Their mission is to provide all elementary…
RSU 12
Alan "Hawk" Hawkins, former superintendent of Wiscasset schools, has been appointed RSU 12's interim superintendent.
School board members welcomed Hawkins after unanimously approving his…
The Waldoboro Parent Café Team was honored with United Way of Mid Coast Maine's Community Builder Award at United Way's Annual Meeting.
The team, organized by United Way partner agency…
Westport Island
Westport Island selectmen wasted no time in notifying the Department of Education Commissioner and the district school board chairman that the town voted to proceed with the withdrawal process.…
Wiscasset High School 2012 Valedictorian Emma Gorwin urged her classmates to "Take the road less traveled, and that will make all the difference."
"When opportunity presents itself, seize it…
The Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 budget passed in every town except Somerville with a two vote differential in the June 12 budget referendum.
"We're very pleased with this budget…
Voters in the towns of Arrowsic, Bath, Phippsburg, West Bath and Woolwich approved the Regional School Unit 1 budget in the June 12 budget validation referendum. Total votes cast: 2167.
…
Wiscasset Future of the Schools Committee
In estimates Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson shared Monday night, tuitioning out the high school grades, closing Wiscasset Elementary School and having all the grades up through…
