Scholars honored FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington President Kathryn A. Foster was recently joined by Senator George J. Mitchell, Mitchell Institute scholarship director Jared Cash and current and alumni UMF recipients of the Senator’s Mitchell Institute scholarship at a dinner held in their honor on the University of Maine at Farmington campus. Since […]

MANCHESTER, N. H. — Saint Anselm College student and Winslow resident Rebecca Sirois, a junior nursing major, recently traveled with the college choir to perform in churches throughout central Europe. The group’s musical tour included stops in Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Prague, Czech Republic; and Berlin, Germany, where they performed concerts and sang at Mass. […]

WINSLOW — Four St. John Regional Catholic School students have been named state grade level winners in the 23rd annual Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. The students’ entries were among over 300,000 submissions from students across the country. The four state grade-level winners from St. John are Aryanah Cormier, second grade; Grant Suttie, third grade; Alaina […]

ELMIRA, N.Y. — Christopher Hall, a former Oakland resident and a 2012 Messalonskee High School graduate, has been named to the 2013 fall semester deans list at Elmira College. His parents are Brian and Jill Hall, of Lindley, N.Y. His grandparents are Paul and Sue King, of Lindley, N.Y., and Cecil and Gabrielle Hall, of […]

FAIRFIELD — Tracie Tooker, a radiologic technology student at Kennebec Valley Community College, has been selected to participate in the American Society of Radiologic Technologists 2014 Student Leadership Development Program. Tooker will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the ASRT Educational Symposium and annual Governance and House of Delegates meeting, June 26-29, in Orlando, Fla. Tooker […]