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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Ian Fournier, Monmouth Academy
No matter the time of day — unless it’s during school hours — Ian Fournier is ready to spring into action. As a junior firefighter with the Monmouth Fire Department, he is on call all hours of the day and yet, it has not impinged on his swimming or academics at Monmouth Academy. Fournier […]
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Madison Oliver, Mount View High School
Madison Oliver knows what hard work is. After school on Mondays, she volunteers and when she’s not volunteering, she’s working as a waitress at Ralph’s Café in Brooks, or as a certified nursing assistant. In school, at Mount View High School where she’s graduating this year, she’s on the math and art teams, the […]
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Highlighting 2024 central Maine area graduates
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.
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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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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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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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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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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 […]