In Clinton Pike's eighth grade class, place-based learning comes alive through immersive outdoor education that connects students directly with their local environment. By engaging in hands-on primitive skills like constructing Paiute dead fall traps, creating maps, building imaginative forest structures, and learning survival techniques such as cordage making, friction fire starting, and bow drill creation, students develop a deep, experiential understanding of their natural surroundings.

Finding Our Voices invites Maine women to uplift and empower each other with an online book club discussion of "The Bonobo Sisterhood" with the author Diane L. Rosenfeld, and a statewide cold water-dip. Finding Our Voices is the grassroots nonprofit providing peer support and resources to Maine women survivors of domestic abuse.

This is "really preliminary," Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson said Jan. 21 at the school committee's first budget workshop. But so far, she said, would-be costs for 2025-26 are up 6% over this year's.

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust invites all to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a naturalist-led hike in Bremen on Friday, Feb. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. Coastal Rivers’ resident naturalist, Sarah Gladu, d

When the weather is milder for going outside after time in a pool, Wiscasset's Lyle Means plans to start exercising in Wiscasset Community Center's. Thanks to an effort his daughter Julee Ketelhut started and other people and entities joined her in, getting into the water will be as easy as wheeling one of the new water wheelchairs down the pool's ramp entrance.

"This community is amazing," Ketelhut said of the response to fundraising. "They stepped up. Wiscasset is a generous, community-minded village."

Heartwood’s annual winter middle school production will hit the stage Jan. 30, as an enthusiastic group of 4th-8th grade Midcoast youths present an adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk.” This delightful piece features more than 20 students in a familiar children’s story set in Appalachia, with cast songs, lots of humor, a fast-paced story telling style, and GIANTS!
 

Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join us for a seven-week interactive, in-person course, presented by experienced beekeepers from the Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) and Maine’s State Bee Inspector.

Amid some of their and others' concerns, Wiscasset school committee members Jan. 14 agreed to apply to the state to serve children younger than the schools' youngest students. The unanimous vote came after Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson said applying does not commit Wiscasset to taking part.

Scott Powers, who grew up on Barters Island, Boothbay and is a 1991 graduate of Boothbay Region High School, lives in the Pasadena, California area and sent this report of the fires still burning in the greater Los Angeles area.

Join Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust for an online program on Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. with Ben Goldfarb, author of "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet." Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, reviewed Crossings as “Wide-ranging and absorbing...Brilliant.” The New York Times named Crossings one of the best books of 2023, and the book received both the Sierra Club’s Rachel Carson Award and the Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize.  

Join Jessie Batchelder from Manomet Conservation Sciences in a conversation about blue crabs and their future in Maine water, on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 6 to 7 p.m.  

As the Gulf of Maine is warming (faster than 99% of the rest of the world’s), many species are expanding their range - including blue crabs. Manomet and the Maine Department of Marine Fisheries have called on fishermen to track and report their observations through an online survey. 

The following students in the readership area were named to the fall 2024 president’s list at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire: Rebecca Short of Westport Island, Crystal Krainis of Edgecomb and Michelle Richardson of Alna.

Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above for the reporting term are named to the president's list. Full-time status is achieved by earning 12 credits over each 16-week term or paired 8-week terms grouped in fall, winter/spring, and summer.

You’re a guest on a boat enjoying our beautiful Maine coastline. What happens if the person operating the boat is unable to continue for some reason such as broken glasses, tripping and getting injured, or not feeling well? Furthermore, sunset is not too far off. What’s the plan to get back? You may also need to understand some basics about boat handling/docking, VHF radios, and getting help.  

Fourteen new courses will start in February through Midcoast Senior College, a local nonprofit that brings learning opportunities to seniors aged 50 years or older. The new courses are six to eight weeks long and are either in-person or online. Course topics cover literature, political science and history, psychology, classical music, social and classical sciences, and art. Classes meet in various locations in the Bath/Brunswick/Topsham area or online.

The next Diabetes Support Group,on Thursday, Jan.23, will feature an open forum to answerDiabetes related questions. The discussion begins at 1p.m.

Veggies to Table is thrilled to announce that it has successfully met and exceeded its end-of-year fundraising goal, raising $149,544 to support its mission to grow top-quality organic produce and flowers to donate to local people experiencing hunger and needing joy. 

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our donors, volunteers, and community supporters, we met our generous $20,000 match and raised $149,544—far surpassing our goal of $100,000—which will allow us to expand our initiatives and make an even greater impact in the lives of those we serve.

Le Café Français, a French conversation group, resumes its lively in-person meetings at the Edgecomb Community Church located at the intersection of Eddy and Cross Point Roads in Edgecomb. Our first meeting of the year included conversation about the French celebration of Epiphany. Participants shared an authentic and delicious galette des rois - “kings’ cake”, a popular French tradition.

Husson University is pleased to celebrate the academic achievements of four Wiscasset students recently named to the President's List (3.80 to 4.0 semester grade-point average) for the spring 2024 semester of the 2023-2024 academic year.