WASHINGTON — The Washington Lakes Watershed Association recently made a $200 donation to the Medomak Middle School Science Olympiad Team.
April 2013
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UMF Events
FARMINGTON — Emery Community Arts Center on UMF Campus plans the following April events:
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Athens’ McClintock earns honors
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Matthew McClintock, of Athens, earned academic honors for the 2012 fall semester at Purdue University.
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Career, technical center open house set
SKOWHEGAN — Somerset Career & Technical Center’s annual Open House and Skills Showcase is set for 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday. Students will demonstrate the career skills they have acquired. Participants can meet staff and students and learn more about career and college opportunities available to students at SCTC.
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Area students earn dean’s list honors
TROY, N.Y. — Laura Tozier, of Waterville, and Jared Foster, of Farmington, have been named to the 2012 fall semester dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The dean’s list recognizes full-time students who maintain grade-point averages of a minimum of 3.0 out of a possible 4.0 and have no grades below “C.”
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Waterville’s Padilla named to dean’s list
WALLINGFORD, Conn. — Siara Padilla, of Waterille, was named to the 2013 winter term dean’s list at Choate Rosemary Hall.
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Donations sought for Hospice store
WATERVILLE — Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area seeks donations for its 304 Main St. store. Donations needed include: furniture, household items, jewelry and limited clothing.
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Skills, not risks to health, should determine if person hired
The best way to hire productive employees is to look for people with qualifications, talent, honesty and commitment. Now, however, a small but growing number of employers are looking for something else as well: job applicants who don’t smoke. As much as we despair of the death and damage caused by tobacco, this new employment criterion strikes us as a lamentable and unwarranted intrusion into applicants’ private lives — and one that should worry anyone in this country who has an elevated risk for any sort of injury or illness. In other words, most of us.
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While faith shines in TV series, Christians fare worse in real world
Last Sunday’s concluding episode of “The Bible” on the History Channel finished off a 10-hour miniseries that contrasted in interesting ways with a recent think-tank study about the actual treatment of the active faith it depicted.
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Issue of choice at heart of charter school plan
I don’t fully understand all the intricacies and details of Gov. Paul LePage’s current plan about school choice, nor have I been diligent (and I’m guilty for this) enough to dig deep into the public school’s base of facts and arguments.