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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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 […]
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Hallowell celebrates Pride Month with parade, music, celebration
Hundreds flocked to downtown Hallowell and the Kennebec Riverbank on Saturday for Hallowell Pride 2024, hosted by Hallowell Pride Alliance, where they listened to music, danced, ate and socialized.
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Central Maine gets ready to celebrate Pride Month
Parades, music, ice cream and a drag show are on tap for June in celebrations across the region.
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Firefighter indicted on charges of stealing more than $12,000 from Winslow Fire Association
Shawn Stetson indicted by Kennebec County grand jury.
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Pittston school hosting annual plant sale to raise money for student trips, greenhouse repairs
The Pittston-Randolph Consolidated School’s annual plant sale is put on in memory of Allison Keaveney, a fourth-grader at the school who was struck and killed by a car in December 1982.
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Miss the northern lights? Maine might have another chance to see them this weekend
Another large solar storm is forecasted to wash across much of the northern U.S. Friday night, potentially bringing the aurora borealis with it.