U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will be the commencement speaker at the University of Maine at Augusta’s graduation ceremony May 9 at the Augusta Civic Center, the university announced Tuesday.
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Augusta Council to address Hodgkins school development
The housing authority needs council backing to secure historic preservation tax credits for senior housing.
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SAD 54 school subcommittee told ‘Indian mascots are wrong’
Tribal representatives presented a case Monday against Skowhegan schools keeping their Indian mascot.
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Gardiner students try their hands at solar and wind power
High school students used solar- and wind-powered cars Monday as part of an educational program developed by Northwestern University to spark interest in STEM fields.
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Gym lights at Whitefield Elementary School to be replaced
Students returned to the school on Monday after a March 27 fire sent them to Chelsea Elementary for nine days.
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Maine finding the recipe for healthier school lunches
The ingredients are incentives, ideas and collaboration, say officials with a program that has helped the state perform far above the national average.
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More students using community college to save money on a four-year college education
Wary of debt, students pursuing higher education turn to one option that can be practically free, where they can learn a technical trade or use the school as a steppingstone on the path to a four-year degree.
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Low cost, great potential add to Maine community colleges’ appeal
Wary of debt, students pursuing higher education turn to one option that can be practically free, where they can learn a technical trade or use the school as a steppingstone on the path to a four-year degree.
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Lahana Palencia: Choosing SMCC ‘was definitely a financial decision’
Lahana Palencia was like many graduating high school students: planning to go to college, not sure what she wanted to study and scared of racking up a lot of student debt while she figured it all out. “I graduated from (Pittsfield) high school an honors student. But I was like, I don’t know what I […]
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Dan Lambert: ‘You’ve just got to have a plan’
It started with a scholarship and the kernel of a plan. Dan Lambert had already been studying machining for two years as a high school student at the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology, and as a graduating senior faced a crossroads about what to do next. He knew he wanted an engineering degree. The question […]