Graduation 2015

The following Wiscasset area students graduated from Bates College at the school's 149th commencement ceremony on May 31.

Lily Christine, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Christine of Alna, graduated cum laude after majoring in English at Bates. She is a 2011 graduate of homeschooling.

Frances Leslie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seaver W. Leslie of Wiscasset, graduated after majoring in art and visual culture at Bates. She is a 2011 graduate of North Yarmouth Academy.

Marissa Carmolli of Edgecomb graduated from Southern Maine Community College on May 17 with a degree in architectural and engineering design.

She graduated with honors and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Carmolli currently works as the laboratory coordinator at Mid Coast Hospital and hopes to incorporate her new degree into her position.

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Trish McLeod was feeling proud June 11 with daughter Jessica McLeod in cap and gown for graduation night at Wiscasset High School. The Wiscasset woman was also proud of her daughter’s best friends, Class of 2015 members Chelsey Thayer and Julia West, not only for graduating, but for making sure her daughter got to march with them.

The two were instrumental in helping arrange for Jessica…

The Wiscasset High School class of 2015 didn't go out quietly.

Playing for the either the last time ever or the last time this season, the Wiscasset High School girls softball team and boys baseball teams played Oak Hill on Thursday, June 4 on senior appreciation day.

While the softball team fell to Oak Hill, 22-0, in five innings, the boys baseball team, which will likely play again in the…

Mason Brewer of Wiscasset was named to the spring 2015 dean's list at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont. For inclusion on the dean's list, a student must have completed at least 12 graded credits with no incomplete or failing grades and a minimum grade-point average of 3.50.

"To be or not" was the theme on Saturday afternoon, May 30 when Bob Foster spoke to the graduating class of the Deck House School in Edgecomb. About 100 students and family gathered for the ceremony on the school's 180-acre property overlooking the Sheepscot River.

Foster urged the students to keep getting up after life's knock downs. 

"Getting there on time is half of…

Seth P. Musich of Edgecomb graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs at Lewis & Clark College’s 142nd commencement ceremony, held on May 9 in Portland, Oregon.

While at Lewis & Clark, Musich’s activities included club soccer, volunteer work and various jobs. In addition, he completed a senior thesis, titled “Understanding…

The annual National Honor Society induction ceremony was conducted at Wiscasset High School on Thursday, May 21. Nine students were inducted into the local NHS chapter, having been selected on their merits and achievements in the areas of scholarship, character, service, and leadership.

The new inductees are: seniors Hanna Foye, Charlene Reed and Jasmine Smith; juniors Samantha Arsenault…

Emily Jordan of Whitefield earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from St. Joseph's College in Standish at its commencement on May 9.

Kristin Sibley of Boothbay Harbor graduated with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and movement sciences from the College of Nursing & Health Sciences during the University of Vermont's 214th commencement ceremonies in Burlington on May 17.

Molly Stackhouse of Edgecomb graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public communication from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences during commencement ceremonies on May 17 at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

Eva Bradford of Westport Island graduated from medical school on Saturday, May 16. She is 2005 graduate of Wiscasset High School and a 2010 graduate of the University of Maine. She will be moving to Florida for residency and plans on practicing as a family medicine physician. She is the daughter of David and Anne Bradford.

Crysta Cassandra Brown, daughter of Robert and Patricia Brown of Wiscasset, received a bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts on Sunday, May 17. She was one of 666 seniors who graduated during the college’s 137th commencement exercises, at which pioneering educator Juliet V. García, the first Hispanic woman to lead a U.S. college or university, was the featured speaker.

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Mason Brewer of Wiscasset received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science at the 103rd Commencement at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, Vermont on May 17. Brewer was also the student speaker at the commencement.

The dresses and suits have been picked out and altered, the “promposals” made and answered. Wiscasset High School’s all-school prom is on for May 16.

When Ridge Barnes arrives at Water’s Edge Banquet & Function Facility in Edgecomb on Saturday night, possibly on his motorcycle, the student council president, fellow seniors and the school’s underclassmen will be carrying on a tradition that has seen change in recent decades. Deb Pooler’s prom in 1971 was in the school gym. Students…

Jesica Waller, Noah Oppenheim and Skylar Bayer, graduate students at the Darling Maine Center (DMC), have received awards and recognition from the University of Maine. All three students are in UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences and are advisees of Dr. Rick Wahle.

Waller received a 2015-2016 Canadian-American Center Fellowship from the UMaine Canadian-American Center. The fellowship encourages international collaboration between graduate students on issues relevant to both countries.…

Wiscasset High School no longer occupies the basement of Maine’s graduation rates. In newly released state figures, the school’s 2014 graduation rate of 73.47 percent outranks six other Maine high schools.

Wiscasset High’s rate has climbed a full 10 percent in one year, in the figures from the Maine Department of Education; the school’s graduation rate for 2013 was 63.33…