Lincoln County Historical Association’s annual summer programming includes three week-long camps for children and teens. This year’s theme is Summer with the Past – Stepping Back: Discovering…
Education
Press release
The Wiscasset School Department Budget Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. in the Wiscasset Middle High School Stover Gymnasium at 272…
On April 10, middle school students at Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning transformed themselves into ancient Greek gods and goddesses for two performances of Tristan Jackson-Pate's one-…
The Maine Art Gallery (MAG) is open for its 66th season with a full schedule of classes designed to pique our curiosity and expand our artistic skills. Be sure to review them and sign up soon,…
Midcoast Senior College invites you to explore our Summer Wisdom 2024 through a series of four presentations.
All sessions are held at Curtis Memorial Library’s Morrell…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its third quarter honor roll for the 2023-24 school year:
Sixth grade: Highest honors, Riley Kleinschmidt, Abigail Rogers, Tayia Wright; high…
Student poets from Edgecomb's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) swept the boards in this year's Poetry Society of Virginia youth poetry contest. From hundreds of poems submitted by young…
Wiscasset school committee
The energy firm auditing Wiscasset-owned properties for a potential contract told the school committee Tuesday night, April 9, a solar array at Wiscasset Middle High School would cost property…
Maine Maritime Museum in Bath announces the opening of “Upta Camp,” a new exhibition that investigates the rise of Maine’s sporting and leisure camp tradition (mid-1800s–post World War II) and how…
March is “Music In Our Schools” month and, to celebrate, the Wiscasset Schools’ performance ensembles gave a concert for students, staff and families at Wiscasset Elementary School on April 3…
Wiscasset Schools and Partners in Education (PIE) have several upcoming events for our community to look forward to!
PIE will be selling concessions at the “Solar Eclipse Watch Party” being…
The Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 independent school in Edgecomb, hosted a group of teaching interns from New Jersey's Delbarton School last week. Jack O'Reilly and Mike Bentz toured the…
The Edgecomb Eddy School cafeteria was filled with firefighters, nurses, tradesmen, hairdressers, scientists and even a beekeeper – at least aspiring ones. The school held a career day March 29,…
11th annual Earth Day Celebration
Come to Maine Studio Works, 170 Anderson St., Portland on Friday, April 26 for this 11th annual celebration of Earth Day. Doors open at Maine Studio Works at 6 p.m. and films begin at 7 p.m.…
Deb Pooler graduated from Wiscasset High School in 1971 and went on to attend the University of Maine at Orono and Augusta. She started working as an educational technician for Wiscasset School…
Since November, students in grades three through five have been delighted to share a hydroponic growing system. Funds from a Maine Agriculture in the Classroom grant purchased the hydroponic…
Recently at Wiscasset Elementary School, students were strutting their own style – in a mismatched way. Students had once again filled the school pom pom jug by being Safe, Responsible…
ORONO — When Noah Lambert, of Bar Harbor, enrolled at the University of Maine, launching a giant balloon 90,000 feet in the air to livestream a total solar eclipse wasn’t an activity he…
Spring is here and so is the long-anticipated Maine Maple Weekend. Start the weekend off with Merry Barn’s March Community Literacy Event, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 23.
We…
Where It’s At
Hey Boomers! Remember flashcards? Those over-sized playing cards used to help memorize multiplication tables, addition and subtraction were used in our house growing up – in my case particularly…
Three students from the Center for Teaching and Learning were recognized by the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water as class award winners for this year’s National Association of Conservation Districts…
Midcoast Literacy
Maine writer and memoirist Phuc Tran (author of “Sigh, Gone”) and poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will share the stage on Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick for…
Wiscasset school committee
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson is invested in the town and its schools, and brings continuity to a job that has not had it in years, a parent told the school committee Tuesday…
Join Midcoast Conservancy April 13 and 14 for this one-and-a-half day course designed for beginners at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson. Most participants have little or no experience with…
Winter storms and coastal flooding wreaked havoc recently, with communities still recovering.
The Dept. of Marine Resources Boothbay Lab also experienced the storm effects. Water levels…
Press release
Wiscasset high school seniors have been hitting the road to invite surrounding towns to “Choose Wiscasset Schools!” Being centrally located in the Midcoast of Maine is just one of the many reasons…
Helena Schultz of Woolwich was named to the College of the Holy Cross fall 2023 dean's list. A member of the Class of 2024, Schultz was named to the dean's list…
Wiscasset and nearby school departments will talk about a possible adult education partnership, Superintendent of Schools Kim Andersson told selectmen and the budget committee…
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Midcoast Conservancy will offer an owl chat and full moon hike at Hidden Valley Nature Center, 131 Egypt Road in Jefferson on …
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering its Ag Ambassador program in…
Maine students interested in careers in journalism are invited to apply scholarships from the Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF).
The…
Community members gathered at Wiscasset Community Center on Wednesday, Feb. 28 for a spaghetti dinner and raffle in support of Willow Orr, a 10-year-old WES student recently diagnosed with a rare…
Midcoast Senior College brings classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning. The following new courses begin the week of Monday, April 8. Courses are six- to eight weeks long and are either…
Heartwood Theater Summer Camp enrollment is open for students graduating grades 5-12. This three-week intensive theater experience will provide young performers with a unique, challenging, and…
The Center for Teaching and Learning celebrated two award-winning poets this month: second grader Gilles Urwin and fifth grader Adeline Inman. The Maine County and State Teachers of the Year…
A 2.44% increase is predicted for the Wiscasset education budget, according to Wiscasset Schools Superintendent Kim Andersson’s budget…
Finding Our Voices
Legendary actor Gabriel Byrne is making a rare Maine public appearance Saturday, March 9 to raise money for domestic abuse awareness.
“An evening with Gabriel Byrne…
Chairman Heather Sinclair called the draft Edgecomb School Committee budget “the best worst option.” The committee held a budget workshop Feb. 12 in hopes of finalizing a recommended school budget…
Students at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Edgecomb recently enjoyed a wonderful day of shared…
Friday, Feb. 9, Feed Our Scholars (FOS) threw a party, a paint party. It was an evening of lighthearted fun. Under the supportive…
A flurry of activity at the barn in Hidden Valley Nature Center recently occurred. Fourth-grade students from Wiscasset Elementary School visited with naturalist Cami Wilbert to discuss strategies…
Pre-K and kindergarten registration is open!
Wiscasset Elementary School is registering students for the coming school year. Please contact us to start the registration process for our full…
The author of a chronicle of the murder of a Unity College student and her girlfriend hiking the Appalachian Trail is joining the online discussion of the book with the Finding Our Voices book…
Barring the unforeseen, the $1,025,000 elevator project at Wiscasset Elementary School will be completed this month, bringing the building back into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities…
John: “Where have you been? I’ve been calling you for two hours!”
Laura: “I’m OK. I was out with a friend.”
John: “Out where? What friend? What’s his name?”
Laura: “It wasn’t…
The Ecology Club at Wiscasset Elementary School kicked off a new recycling routine last week. They have been collaborating with school chef Terrie Johnson to find ways to reduce waste from the…
Students at the Center for Teaching and Learning collected thirty-one pairs of pajamas for local children and adolescents during the month of January. Grace Olcott, a second grader from Alna,…
Wiscasset Middle High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2023-24 school year:
Sixth grade: Highest honors, Alexandra Herrick, James Kenney, Chace Larrabee and…
