Following a conversation with parents and staff Feb. 7, the Edgecomb School Committee reached a consensus to make mask wearing for outdoor recess optional. Alternative Organizational Structure 98…
Education
February Vacation Adventure Camp
February’s three-day adventure, designed for campers ages 8 to 13, explores Stories and Games from Around the World. After an up-close look at the storytelling tradition, we’ll share legends from…
Darling Marine Center hosts 25 to 30 undergraduate researchers on the Walpole campus each summer. Student researchers work together with UMaine faculty and other DMC-based researchers on projects…
If you are 19 or older and planning to go to college but don’t know where to start, the Lincoln County College Connection (TLC3) could be the solution for you. TLC3 provides one-on…
Update: Wiscasset Elementary and Wiscasset Middle High schools will stay remote through Friday, Feb. 4 and resume in-person learning Monday, Feb. 7, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced…
Clara Mugnai from Alna has been named to St. Lawrence University's dean's list for achieving academic excellence during the fall 2021 semester.
Mugnai is a member of the Class of 2022 and…
Selectmen said Jan. 18, due to the losing town vote last June, they will wait for the next budget cycle to revisit the school resource officer job. “I have to respect their decision,”…
From the assistant editor
Why did you come here, beautiful eagle?
You might ask what we are doing here, also, beautiful bird, ever near as we can be to wherever you light. We have not your wings and eagle eyes, we…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join us for a seven-week interactive, online Zoom course, presented by experienced beekeepers from Knox-Lincoln County Beekeepers (KLCB) and Maine’s…
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and The Color Network (TCN) are partnering for a second year to offer an artist residency focused on mentor-mentee relationship building among artists of…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Police Chief Larry Hesseltine told Wiscasset Newspaper Friday, he is excited the school department has grant funding for two years of a school resource officer. He hopes to get an SRO…
Join us in February for a three-day adventure exploring Stories and Games from Around the World. We’ll start with an up-close look at the storytelling tradition. Before moving across the world, we…
Lincoln County Republican Committee is accepting applications for the 2022 Helen Weston Scholarship award. This year, two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded. Proceeds may be…
Downward facing dog, happy baby, child’s pose, high dragon, cobra pose: These are but a few of the poses struck during yoga classes all over the world. Practiced for centuries, its health benefits…
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced in Tuesday night’s school committee meeting, the school department will tap American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for a school resource…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle’s report to the district’s board for its Thursday, Jan. 13 meeting states the following
On Jan. 5 RSU 12…
Join Hearty Roots at Hidden Valley Nature Center for a morning filled with cross country skiing, fat tire biking, and exploring the trails with other local families. In the afternoon, kids play…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an online workshop about best practices for winter care of equines from noon to 2 p.m. on Feb. 1.
Workshop topics…
Connect with others who share your interests, from painting in watercolor or the legacy of Francis Perkins, to a study of the moon and Mars. With a choice of eleven courses - 10 on Zoom and one in…
Wiscasset Elementary School teacher Tracy Stover said she has sponsors lined up so every student in her class gets a scholastic book to bring home and keep each month and on holidays.
Sue…
Is teaching during the pandemic challenging you? Let’s collaborate, support one another, and envision a better way forward.
In a recent Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez sounded…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) and the Maine Department of Education has announced further revisions to the Maine CDC’s public health guidance for…
Wiscasset School Department
Wiscasset’s superintendent of schools said she expects Maine Center for Disease Control’s updated guidance for schools handling a positive COVID-19 case will let more students attend school in-…
The youth of Boothbay Region Y Arts have been very busy this month. In addition to “Seussical Jr” at Lincoln Theater, caroling on Boothbay Common, and the recent Christmas Spectacular show, they’…
The Edgecomb School Committee is taking a little extra time before deciding whether to make five policy changes. Edgecomb and other Alternative Organizational Structure 98 school boards are…
Auditor Ron Smith of RHR Smith & Company gave high marks Dec. 14 to Wiscasset School Department.
Addressing the school committee, Smith said the department’s carryover balance moved…
Orono, Maine — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about growing…
Students at Wiscasset Elementary School recently brought special guests to school. The students earned a PAWS celebration for being safe, responsible and respectful. Each time the students were…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company
Open auditions for Heartwood’s returning Winter Drama Adventure are scheduled in the Poe Theater at Lincoln Academy, on Monday, Dec 13 from 3-4:30 p.m.
Auditions are…
When it comes to decorating a Christmas tree, there are no blockheads in Nicole Ellis’ Edgecomb Eddy School’s sixth grade class. Her students won first place Dec. 3 in the annual Edgecomb Charlie…
Feeling the need for something sweet, but don’t want to make it yourself? Feed Our Scholars (FOS), the group that supports Wiscasset Elementary…
AUGUSTA — The Maine CDC has updated the estimated COVID-19 vaccination rate of students in each school administrative unit.
With the data release, the Maine CDC continues to urge all…
Wiscasset will find farming out its high school students would not save money, selectmen’s liasion to the Future of Wiscasset Schools Committee, Kim Andersson, predicted Dec. 2.
“I think we…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year:
Grade six: Highest honors, Audra…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its first quarter, students of the quarter:
Grade six: Devon Roy and Ella Travis
Grade seven: Genesis Andrews and Connor Knight
…
In 1970, Literacy Volunteers of America began tutoring adults struggling to read and write. One of those chapters began on Maine’s Midcoast. Fifty-two years later, the local chapter is now…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s high school student council did the annual Turkey Thyme fundraiser in November and collected donations from teachers and students to help families in need at WMHS.…
Three local scouts participated in the Pinetree Lego Derby on Saturday, Nov. 13 at Camp Bomazeen.
Owen Perry, 2nd grader (BRES), won the derby with an average speed of a little over 198 mph…
A new initiative is calling on youth, fishermen, aquaculture farmers, new industry members, seasoned industry leaders, educators, mentors, workforce experts, training program leaders, and anyone…
SVRSU
As Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit’s board talked COVID issues Nov. 10, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle called for a break to ask a man to leave. The parent, Windsor’s Kenneth Dostie…
An increasing number of high school students are looking to make a big splash in their future by attending Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. The past four years have seen a 76% rise in…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about winter garden design from 6 to 7:15 p.m. on…
Wiscasset school committee
The more students who take part in pooled testing, the better it can work to keep students in school, department officials said over Zoom Nov. 9.
The school committee’s monthly meeting came…
Edgecomb
As school committee chairman, Heather Sinclair wants to make the Edgecomb school budget language more user friendly. Sinclair is working on a worksheet which explains various terms so the public…
Sen. Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, earned high marks from the Maine Education Association for her voting record on education issues. MEA scored…
On Nov. 6, The Morris Farm held an earring workshop with Barbara Gage in the education center. We had a great turnout and had lots of fun! Each participant made three pairs of hanging earrings to…
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar about preparing edible holiday gifts from noon to 12:45 p.m. Nov. 9.
Topics include cost-effective ways to make holiday gifts…
All prospective students and their families are invited to Lincoln Academy’s 2021 Virtual Open House, which will be held as a Google Meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 3 beginning at 6 p.m.
This…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the Maine Department of Education (DOE), updated its COVID-19 vaccination rates for school staff.
79.7…
This summer, selectmen briefly mulled having the voter-approved, selectmen-appointed, ad hoc, schools study committee craft a strategic plan for Wiscasset education. They dropped the idea as part…
