Wiscasset High School is proud to announce that the following members of the Class of 2015 have earned the distinction of “Top Scholars.” …
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Wiscasset Public Library
What can you do with a paper plate, bubble wrap, paint and a scissor? Create a pet snake with scales and all! The children at the Wiscasset Public Library’s story hour learned from two stories…
The Sheepscot Valley Children’s House will hold its annual May Festival and open house on Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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A fifth “What’s Cooking, Doc?” class organized by LincolnHealth will be offered on…
Monday, May 4 found the new F.A.R.M.S. facility in Damariscotta filled with Edgecomb Eddy School’s kindergarten and first grade students. While there, the students identified a variety of…
The Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb’s student poets swept the boards in the Poetry Society of Virginia annual youth contest. …
The dresses and suits have been picked out and altered, the “promposals” made and answered. Wiscasset High School’s all-school prom is on for May 16.
When Ridge Barnes arrives at Water’s…
The following Wiscasset Middle School students were named to the school’s third quarter honor roll.
Highest Honors
Grade 8: Matthew Chapman…
In April, FARMS began a series of morning cooking classes to be enjoyed with Popovers and Tea, at the Community Kitchen (above the Rising Tide…
While buying local is clearly on the rise, the stories in “Growing Local” make clear that small farms and access to locally produced food are no sure thing. In…
Katherine Rushlau of Dresden, who is majoring in journalism at Emerson College, was one of 83 students inducted into the Gold Key Honor Society on April 22.
Students inducted into the…
The following Wiscasset High School students were named to the school’s third quarter honor roll.
Seniors
Highest Honors: Maeve Carlson,…
In mid-April, students in Wiscasset High School biology classes planted seeds of 17 varieties of tomato plants for the annual Morris Farm Community Plant sale. Two weeks later, on May 1, the…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) is offering free children's programs with the Patten Free Library in May. The two programs will offer spring themed stories…
Coastal Studies for Girls will be holding an informational gathering at the FARMS Community Kitchen, Main Street, Damariscotta (above…
As part of a year-long study of water, the fifth through eighth graders at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb have engaged with the Herring Gut Learning Center in Port Clyde (…
Even when asked if they would reconsider, a group of Damariscotta voters still said no to the proposed secondary regular instruction and special education budget during the Wednesday, May 6 town…
Jesica Waller, Noah Oppenheim and Skylar Bayer, graduate students at the Darling Maine Center (DMC), have received awards and recognition from the University of Maine. All three students are in…
Juniper Hill School’s first and second graders spent their Fridays through the winter term at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson…
As part of a spring study of water life, students in the seventh and eighth grades at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb built remote-controlled submersibles, through the Portsmouth…
Daren Wood, a junior at Wiscasset High School, has been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders in Boston, Massachusetts, June 28…
A fifth “What’s Cooking, Doc?” class organized by LincolnHealth will be offered on…
Wiscasset Public Library
The Wiscasset Public Library welcomed the month of May by getting back outside for story hour. After reading “In The Woods: Who’s Been Here?” by Lindsay Barrett George, the group stepped outside…
Edgecomb Eddy Guidance Teacher Haley Bezon introduced her alter-ego to the local school committee on April 27. Bezon, who has taught at the school since late February, introduced Ms. Bezon Potato…
Students at Wiscasset High School nominated substitute teaching couple Prescott and Pat Farris as “Teachers of the 3rd Quarter.”
“While they are substitutes, they are an important part of…
Spring is a time for cruising and the winding, scenic back roads of Maine are perfect for cruising on a motorcycle. Need your permit? No problem. Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering…
Coastal Studies for Girls
In a yellow circa 1850 farmhouse on the coast of Maine, the country’s only residential semester science school for girls is bucking a national trend, in a remarkable way.
In 2006, a…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset residents will consider funding a $100,000 lab for Wiscasset High School. The lab, and an extra $32,000 toward a Wiscasset Middle School playground makeover, will each go to voters as…
This year 30 pottery studios from across the state will be open for the Maine Pottery Tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. May 3.
The…
Shalimar Poulin, who teaches art at Wiscasset High School, recently announced to her colleagues and students that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
“The treatment I'm going through…
At the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, things will be a little different in Wiscasset. The primary school students will be located at the middle school, and middle school students in…
Two area fathers expressed their thanks April 28, for Wiscasset Middle School’s donations as their children fight illnesses.
Wiscasset Primary School third grader Sienna Giles, 8, daughter…
Wiscasset High School Principal Cheri Towle will make her next year’s budget request to the School Committee on Wednesday, April 29. The meeting in the high school library starts at 6 p.m.
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Wiscasset
When voters hit the polls in Wiscasset on June 9, the future of the town’s ambulance and police services may not be the only non-binding decisions they will face. Residents could be asked outside…
Wiscasset Middle School
An industrial hygienist is recommending a series of measures to remove mold from Wiscasset Middle School. The April 22 report by Randy Geoffrey of Air Quality Management Services in Lewiston…
Certified instructors from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will be conducting an introductory boating navigation course using a chart of the Boothbay…
Earth Day 2015 on April 22 was celebrated at the Wiscasset Public Library Children’s Room by getting outside to do some clean up and planting.
Many eager hands helped rake leaves and pick up…
The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free workshops entitled Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 & over at the following times and locations: University College…
Wiscasset School Department
Chelsea Haggett used to play on Wiscasset Middle School’s playground. Now the Wiscasset School Committee member is helping plan its makeover in the months before the school changes from serving…
The Seventh and Eighth Grade District III Honors Music Festival was held on April 10 and 11 at Hall-Dale High School. Wiscasset had three students taking part in…
Pete Cole, CEO of Gamblin Artists Colors, will hold a workshop/discussion of oil paints and mediums on Friday, May 1, at 7 p.m. at the Mobius Community Center,…
The Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber’s third annual Hacker’s Ball Golf Tournament will be held Friday, May 8 at the Brunswick Golf Club, 165 River Road in Brunswick. Proceeds from individual and…
Internationally acclaimed book artist and teacher Dea Fischer will be traveling from Alberta, Canada to Midcoast Maine this May to teach a bookmaking workshop. The two-day workshop is open to…
Come help keep the Earth clean and green at the Wiscasset Public Library Children’s Room on Earth Day 2015!
Activities…
It is always a special treat when local artist Mat O’Donnell visits the Wiscasset Public Library’s story hour.
O’Donnell read "Runaway Bunny" by Margaret Wise Brown and had great interaction…
If you are interested in an exciting, in-depth boating safety course, Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering America's Boating Course beginning Tuesday, April 28 from 6…
On March 24, Hawk Henries came to share his handmade flutes and play his songs with the students of Juniper Hill School in Alna. He engaged the children with his…
Wiscasset School Committee
One in four students in Wiscasset schools receives special education services. Depending on the student’s needs, that can mean anything from getting extra help with schoolwork for part of the day…
Spring is the time when days are longer, the weather is warmer, spirits are brighter and you might even feel a bit lighter on our feet. So it is the perfect time to tune-up your steps on the dance…
