The Wiscasset Feed Our Scholars (FOS) and its Set For Success (S4S) programs have been quietly continuing providing bags of weekend food to subscribing families during this time of school shut…
Education
Boothbay Region High School seniors will not be moving on to the next chapters of their lives without a graduation celebration. Principal Tricia Campbell said despite not being able to carry out…
Boothbay Region High School
After they responded to a survey, Boothbay Region High School seniors will come together at 2 p.m. June 5 for a full graduation ceremony. Principal Tricia Campbell and Dean of Students Allan…
Boothbay Public Works employees spent Wednesday morning placing graduation banners for the Boothbay Region High School Class of 2020 on Route 27 on the light posts around the Boothbay Common. Here…
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD School Committee
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District school committee members learned May 13, the Boothbay Region High School 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian are Hali Goodwin and Will Perkins,…
Boothbay Region High School
Thanks to Boothbay Region High School alumna and Seahawk track legend Angel Ames, …
The Boothbay Region High School Class of 2020 has faced many obstacles over the years but getting through this year’s pandemic by completing their courses online, committing to colleges and post-…
As the 2019-20 school year winds to a close, in Edgecomb, it’s more of an end of an era than the end of school. This school year marked the 30th and last one for Administrative Assistant Judy…
AUGUSTA — During the May 27 daily COVID-19 briefing in Augusta, Governor Janet Mills addressed the issue of gathering for annual town meetings and school budget meetings this summer.
“We’…
Wiscasset school committee
From virtual marching practice to fielding parade questions and planning a fun summer break sendoff for elementary school families, Wiscasset’s school department is working toward the school year’…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has announced an innovative alternative to its onsite signature summer camps this year. “We’re calling it the CMBG Summer Camp Club,” says Erika Huber, Youth &…
June 5 marks the last day of school for the students of Chewonki Elementary and Middle School and celebrates a milestone achievement for our first graduating class of middle school students. We…
Wiscasset Middle High School’s Class of 2020 has had a spring like no class before it, but the rest of senior year, from homecoming to winter carnival and sports, except the spring ones, gave…
Nicole Clarke of Southport and Sarah Cooper of Dresden were named to the dean's list for the spring 2020 semester at the University of Vermont.
Beginning Monday, June 22, the Merry Barn Writers’ Retreat will launch a host of online offerings via Zoom for all ages. We have programs for kids ages 8-13; workshops for teens on college essay…
Wiscasset Middle High School is proud to announce the five seniors in the Class of 2020 who have earned the distinction of being a “Top Scholar.” To be recognized as a “Top Scholar,” a senior…
Edgecomb’s Karen Potter had just gotten home from work at Dan’s Automotive in Boothbay Harbor Thursday when the family’s Labradors, on the deck, started barking.
“We’re like what’s that? Oh…
Gretchen Elder of Edgecomb, majoring in communication studies, and Colette McMahon of Westport, majoring in international business, were named to the 2020 spring semester dean’s list at…
For the first time, Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 voters might decide the budget without first having the open meeting where they can alter it, Superintendent of Schools Howard Tuttle…
Levels of acidification can be different in coastal marine waters than in the open ocean. Inputs from freshwater rivers and nutrient runoff from land can change water chemistry in coastal areas.…
Grace Webber of Westport Island, Maine graduated from the University of New Hampshire on May 16. She earned an AAS degree in veterinary technology.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb has found that outdoor education is more important now than ever before. Daily or weekly outdoor time is imperative to mental and physical…
With 70% of the town’s annual budget dedicated to education, Edgecomb selectmen are concerned how the new contract the teachers union and school committee have will impact taxpayers in the years…
Wiscasset School Department announced Friday, Wiscasset Middle High School’s Class of 2020 will graduate at Wiscasset Speedway instead of in the school lot as first announced. The fireworks at the…
In the Wiscasset Elementary School courtyard May 14, photographs of staff were holding strong in the wind. The photographs, posted on trees, had kind, encouraging messages.
In June, the Edgecomb School Committee will decide how to proceed with an unexpectedly large unassigned budget fund, also known as a surplus. The school year began with $112,567 in surplus. The…
When Wiscasset Middle High School junior Kyle Ricker and fellow student council members made their new YouTube video thanking teachers, it wasn’t in…
The following are excerpts from Wiscasset Elementary School’s May newsletter.
“Second grade has been busy working on lots of math, reading, writing and spelling from their “At Home Learning…
Schools may be closed, but Educate Maine and the Law Offices of Joe Bornstein are teaming up to get books into the hands of students studying remotely.
The 2020 Maine Books Challenge is…
Red Cloak Tours is offering a new product that will allow small groups or families in Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset, and other Maine locations to enjoy a personalized, guided outdoor adventure while…
As many accidental home-schooling teachers (aka parents) are running low on new ideas for sparking educational excitement in their equally accidental students, Midcoast Conservancy has some ways…
A week after announcing an outdoor graduation June 11, Wiscasset Middle High School on Tuesday announced the following details:
Where: WMHS Upper Parking Lot
When: …
Healthy Kids has partnered with Maine Children’s Trust to launch a new digital campaign to help Maine parents navigate the challenges of parenting, especially amid the current uncertainties…
Juniper Hill School for Place-Based Education
At Juniper Hill School for Place-Based Education in Alna, children spend 60-90% of each day outdoors. If you had visited the school in early March, you would have seen upper elementary students…
Wiscasset school staff have another hit on their hands. And this one’s got Cindy Collamore on horseback telling jokes.
The first video sending students positive messages and music during…
On April 20, the Board of Directors of Coastal Senior College, one of 17 senior colleges in the Maine Senior College Network, voted unanimously to transition to independent status from the…
Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) is offering short-term workforce training programs aimed at providing in-demand skills training for people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Viewers at wiscassetnewspaper.com checked out Principal…
When Darlene French began as school lunch cook in 1977, meals were a quarter and the program served 500 meals a day. Over the next five decades, the program expanded from lunch to include…
Tuesday afternoon, April 28, the following letter from Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Charles Lomonte to seniors and their families was posted at wiscassetschools.org:
I hope this…
Students from pre-school through 8th grade at Damariscotta Montessori School decorated grocery bags to brighten up deliveries from Main Street Grocery in Damariscotta. The students used art…
Early intervention at Wiscasset Elementary School has been extremely important, Special Education Director Kenneth Spinney told the school committee Monday.
“We’re doing a great job at that…
Around a dozen Boothbay region contractors and several community members have risen to the challenge of building birdhouses as a way to keep the region’s students busy and creative during social…
Wiscasset school officials were optimistic Monday they will need no more from the town’s taxpayers than last year. The school committee’s two-hour review of a first draft found errors officials…
In a virtual meeting April 17, the Edgecomb School Committee approved June 5 as the last distance learning day for 2019-20. The committee and Edgecomb Eddy School teachers’ union also entered into…
Westport Island’s Kelly Delano hadn’t been to Fort Edgecomb since childhood. Thanks to a unit Wiscasset Elementary School fifth grade teacher Justin Stygles has been giving students on local…
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle said April 16, unless conditions change, the district that serves Alna and Westport Island will keep distance…
Wiscasset School Committee
Communication on everyone’s part is the most important piece to remote learning, administrators and Wiscasset school committee members said April 14 in the committee’s Zoom debut. The panel …
