AUGUSTA — Melissa Garand, an eighth grade student at St. Michael School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee. Garand will take a written exam to qualify for the State Geography Bee.
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Titus honored by Northeast Region Certified Crop Advisors
VASSALBORO — The Northeast Region Certified Crop Advisors Board of Directors recently recognized Lauchlin Titus as their 2011 Certified Crop Advisor of the Year.
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Students improve on math, reading tests, but fall back on writing
AUGUSTA — Maine elementary and middle school students performed better this year on tests of math and reading, but worse in writing.
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UMA student wins logo design contest
AUGUSTA — Roderick Small, a student at the University of Maine at Augusta, recently won a competition to design a logo for the Augusta Downtown Alliance.
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Caliandro participates in Jazz All State Festival
GARDINER — Mike Caliandro, a senior student at Gardiner Area High School, represented the school at the Jazz All State Festival held recently at Scarborough High School.
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Sappi: Gas line a link to change
SKOWHEGAN — Sappi Fine Paper North America’s plan to hook into a proposed natural gas pipeline would be the latest move in its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and the company is performing an engineering study that would show how effective that move would be.
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Snowe outmuscles D’Amboise financially
WASHINGTON — Republican Senate candidate Scott D’Amboise of Lisbon Falls raised $473,465 last year, a seemingly large sum for a little-known, tea party-affiliated challenger to three-term GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe.
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Bid for new coffee-shop arson trial suffers setback
AUGUSTA — A judge on Wednesday refused to allow the most damning witness against Raymond Bellavance Jr. to return to the stand as part of the defense’s attempt for a new trial in the topless coffee shop arson case.
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SNAPSHOT: The recess pool
Cole Whitten contemplates how many points the Patriots will score over the Giants while guessing the outcome of the Superbowl during an inside recess Wednesday at Carrie Ricker Middle School in Litchfield. Students overwhelming supported the New England team, according to principal Christine Lajoie-Cameron, while it rained and snowed outside. Whitten confided he’s a Packer’s […]
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It’s man against the elements in ‘THE GREY’
After reviewing some very fine, blue plate special Oscar worthy films: “Descendants,'” “The Help,” ” The Artist,” I felt ravenous for a good cheeseburger with fries movie. I needed to see people run, things blown up, etc. So I walked into Joe Carnahan’s (“A-Team”) new epic “The Grey,” expecting all of the above with extra onions. While I didn’t get filet mignon, I was very surprised at what I was given.