This spring, we reached out to students in the class of 2024 throughout the coverage area for the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and Central Maine Sunday, hoping to hear from them about their lives. Despite everything, the students in the class of 2024 are optimistic.
Emily Duggan
Staff Writer
Emily Duggan is a staff writer for the Kennebec Journal. She graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of New Hampshire, where she was a news editor and staff writer for The New Hampshire. Before working at the Kennebec Journal, she interned at the Portland Press Herald and freelanced for the Granite State News Collaborative. A Portland native, Emily loves exploring the city, reading, and playing with her two cats.
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Lainey Cooley, Gardiner Area High School
Lainey Cooley is ready to take on a new challenge in a big city. After living in Gardiner her whole life and attending Gardiner Area High School, where she is valedictorian of the class of 2024, she’s set for a new experience. Cooley, 18, plans to attend Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and […]
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Eben Michaud, Winthrop High School
As a senior at Winthrop High School, Eben Michaud has already started to embark on his next chapter in life. Before he starts college, Michaud will be able to say that he became a medic, went to basic training and visited several countries in Europe. Michaud, 18, joined the Maine Army National Guard in […]
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Alice Willette, Waterville High School
“I can’t beat you in a race, but I can build a robot that can beat you,” Alice Willette likes to tell people. While Willette admits she doesn’t have the best athletic ability, she thrives in her love for building robots and spends her time on the robotics team. Willette started with Lego Robotics […]
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Lilly Mushlit, Maranacook Community High School
Running is Lilly Mushlit’s favorite activity. She participates in indoor and outdoor track and cross country for Maranacook Community High School in Readfield and now plans to run in college at the University of New England. And, she has a visual impairment. Mushlit jokes that the impairment has made technology her best friend. It […]
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Sydney King, Nokomis High School
Growing up working on a farm, Sydney King knew she wanted to go into the trades. King started working on her friend’s farm in Dixmont when she was 11 — planting, weeding and, when she was old enough, selling vegetables in a farm stand. And after a job shadow in her sophomore year at […]
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Ben Nathan, Hall-Dale High School
Ben Nathan decided to become a physical therapist after the effect one had on his life. As a three-season athlete and the captain of the soccer, basketball and baseball teams at Hall-Dale High School, Nathan, 18, developed patellar tendonitis, which impacted his knees and his sports career. Nathan said the pain was so severe that […]
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Amany Albahadly, Cony High School
Amany Albahadly moved to the United States from Iraq in 2010, when she was 4. She and her family lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, for three years before moving to Augusta in 2013 when Albahadly was 7. Now, Albahadly, a senior at Cony High School, will be the first in her family to graduate […]
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For central Maine students looking at college, cost is the biggest factor
Now more than ever, high school seniors are looking at ways to lower the price of pursuing higher education.
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Carlie Jarvais, Skowhegan Area High School
To Carlie Jarvais, her family is everything. When she toured colleges in New York City and Connecticut, something wasn’t right. It wasn’t until she got to tour Thomas College in Waterville that she knew. “The biggest thing is my family,” Jarvais said. “I felt like it was wrong to leave, and I would get […]