The Maine Educational Opportunity Center plans to host free individualized virtual sessions for adults 19 and older looking for a new career or returning to higher education. Essentials of College Planning: • Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 9 and 10 a.m., and 6 and 7 p.m.; • Thursday, Feb. 24, at 9 and 10 a.m.; • […]
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Erskine Academy to host 8th grade open house
SOUTH CHINA — Erskine Academy invites all eighth-grade students and their parents from surrounding communities to attend an open house. The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16 in the 309 Windsor Road gym. The administration encourages all incoming freshmen and their parents to attend. Registration materials will be available, and information about […]
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Messalonskee High School recognizes honor students
OAKLAND — Messalonskee High School has announced the following students were named to its second-quarter honor roll for the 2021-22 academic year. Grade 12 — High honors with distinction: Andi Anderson, Kendall Arbour, Owen Axelson, Cooper Barrett, Simon Bessey, Haven Birch, Martina Bizier, Cole Brazz, Rebekah Bucknam, Francesca Caccamo, Nathaniel Castner, Journey Charles, Colby Corson, […]
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Belgrade student makes Rhode Island college dean’s list
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Elizabeth Hammond, daughter of Dan and Kerri Hammond of Belgrade, has earned 2021 fall semester dean’s list honors at Providence College. Dean’s list honors are earned by full-time undergraduate students who, at the end of the semester, have attained a GPA of 3.55 or better on a 4.0 scale, with no grade […]
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Mount Vernon transportation service changes leadership
MOUNT VERNON — Over the past seven years, three members of the Neighbors Driving Neighbors Board of Directors have led the way: Dan Onion, Sandy Wright and Shelly Fitzgerald. All three helped launch Neighbors Driving Neighbors in 2015 and have been active leaders on the board ever since. All three, while staying on the board, […]
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Wiscasset-area students receive Scholastic art, writing awards
WISCASSET — Five students attending Chewonki Elementary and Middle School recently took top honors from the Scholastic Art & Writing regional awards as a part of the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens, according to a news release from Chewonki. Nyssa Wilkinson from Bremen received a gold key award for her short […]
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Gardiner City Council views fish passage film
Upstream founder and board president Tina Wood presented the film “Keystone: voices for the little fish” to the Gardiner City Council in December. The council has long supported fish passage at Gardiner Paperboard Dam and welcomed the update on progress in Cobbossee Corridor, a vital green way in the city’s downtown and an economic driver, […]
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Augusta-area society to host talk by ‘Field House’ author
The Kennebec Historical Society’s February Facebook Live Presentation, “Rediscovering Rachel Field — The extraordinary book journey that led to ‘The Field House,’” is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, by writer Robin Clifford Wood, according to a news release from the society. In her talk, Wood will tell the story of her book journey […]
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Union library to offer Zoom concert by percussion-piano duo
UNION — The duo Cherry & Jerry is scheduled to perform live music by African American composers at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16. The concert is to be held via Zoom during the Vose Library’s Vose or Virtual Wednesday Series. Cherry & Jerry’s hour-long program will feature ragtime, blues, jazz and Broadway, according to a […]
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Madison Area Memorial High lists honor students
Madison Area Memorial High School recently announced the following students were named to its second-quarter honor roll for the 2021-22 academic year. Grade 12 High honors: Danika Abbott, Christopher Carlo, Thomas Dean, LeilaRae Horton, Landyn Landry, Abigail Linkletter, Brooke McKenney, Austin Mercier, Anna Paine, Brianna Paine, Jackson Theriault, Benjamin Thrasher, Damien Tuttle and Vernon Worthen […]