Gardiner Area High School has announced the following students were named to its first-semester honor roll for the 2021-22 academic year. Grade 12 — Highest honors: Samuel Arsenault, Emma Baker, Ryan Banister, Madeline Barden, Alayna Blier, Kennedy Burditt, Izabella Card, Haley Cookson, Skye Cotnoir, Isaac Dostie, Emily Folsom, Natalie Fossett, Thomas Gingras and Ava Goraj. Also, […]
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Liberty printer holds art scholarship for high school seniors
Liberty Graphics, an environmentally conscious T-shirt printer, is currently accepting art submissions to its 25th annual $1,000 art scholarship contest, according to a news release from the printer. All high school seniors residing in Maine are invited to submit original work that reflects on the theme of Art and Our Natural Environment. Work can be […]
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Hartman Awards to be presented at UMaine
ORONO — The 2022 Maryann Hartman Awards, recognizing the inspirational achievements of Maine women, are scheduled to be presented during a free public ceremony and reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 1, at Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine, 160 College Ave. Honorees include community leader and certified nursing assistant ZamZam Mohamud of […]
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Rep. Don Young of Alaska, longest-serving current congressman, dies at 88
During his career, he unapologetically supported earmarks as a way to bring home projects and build up infrastructure in a geographically huge state.
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Chesterville voters elect three to Select Board
John Archer retained his seat while Tim LeSiege won a three-year term.
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Stephen King writes war in Ukraine is about a hero and a villain
Replies on Twitter by King’s fans and critics ran the gamut from agreement, to disagreement, to thinking maybe his take was an oversimplification of a saga rooted in history.
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Planned Maine salmon farm closes on land for project in Belfast
Nordic Aquafarms wants to build a $500 million salmon farm in land-based tanks in Belfast.
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American father desperate to get 2-year-old son home from Ukraine
Cesar Quintana has a U.S. court order showing he has sole legal custody of the boy, who was taken from their Southern California home by his Ukrainian-American mother.
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Syria’s Assad makes first trip to Arab country since civil war broke out
His visit to Dubai sends the clearest signal yet that the Arab world is willing to re-engage with Syria’s once widely shunned president.
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Firing-squad executions get the green light in South Carolina
There was a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.