On Friday, April 11, Partners in Education's ad hoc Strategic Planning Organizing Committee for Wiscasset Schools published a survey to gather community input, ideas and opinions on public…
Education
Wiscasset High School
Keep letting in other towns' students, let ninth grade stay part of the high school, and, most of all, know that Wiscasset High School is the great school its students say it is.
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Wiscasset Sports
The Wiscasset High School baseball/softball teams are looking for sponsors to purchase banners to hang along the fences at the high school.
All area businesses that are interested, please…
A proposed police officer for Wiscasset's schools drew an initial, mixed response among some of those working on the town's next budget.
Local, county and state law…
When she lived in El Paso, Texas, Jean Phillips joined an Irish step dancing troupe.
It was a workout. Phillips, whose mother is three-quarters Irish, lost 13…
All A's
Grade 8: Clara Mugnai, Leah Potter, Grace Wehrle
Grade 7: Alicia Long, Matthew Smith
Grade 6: Shannon James, Kaitlyn Main, Cara Viele,…
The fifth grade Language Arts classes of Nancy Erkman and Barbara Wyman celebrated April Fools’ Day with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. They have have been listening to the original Lewis Carroll “The…
Coastal Enterprises (CEI), a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the First-…
The Friends of Colonial Pemaquid is offering the sixth graders of the Bristol Consolidated School a chance to experience living history at Plimoth…
Wiscasset Public Library
In celebration of Easter, the children at the Wiscasset Public Library searched the children’s room for almost 50 eggs hidden by the Easter Bunny on April 16.…
Wiscasset School Committee
Much work would need to be done to add grades seven and eight to Wiscasset High School, officials said.
That work would involve everything from moving science labs…
Wiscasset School Committee
Plans for a smaller adult education program than Wiscasset had in Regional School Unit 12 met with opposition April 14.
Course takers, teachers of adult education…
Adult Education
Now that spring is finally here and the weather is getting warmer, soon it will be boating season. Boothbay Region Adult &…
Local Scout Troop 144 and their leader Brittany Carter recently met with MaryAnn Look and Linda Blomquist of the Ecumenical Food Pantry of Newcastle to learn what…
The Maine Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management and the Maine Military Family Assistance Center, in conjunction with the first lady of Maine Ann LePage, invited sponsors of the…
Spectrum Generations
Has it been awhile since you’ve seen the top of your table or desk?
On April 24 at 1:…
When Linda Bleile first began her teaching career at Wiscasset Middle School, she wasn't sure she could finish out the year.
During Christmas break in 1973, Bleile, who was freshly graduated…
School District Withdrawal
An anticipated referendum, that could have backed Westport Island out of its possible pullout from Regional School Unit 12, is now off. The Westport Island Withdrawal Committee is no…
Partners in Education (PIE), a nonprofit educational foundation serving the Wiscasset community, has created a committee to organize a strategic planning session…
There is still time and room to join our Coastal Senior College spring classes.
Consider the lobster and its ways,…
The annual Wiscasset High School Alumni banquet will be Saturday, May 31 at the Wiscasset High School Gymnasium. Social time is at 5 p.m. and the…
Senior Emma Leonard of Boothbay, daughter of John and Donna Leonard, recently received the most improved player award in girls varsity basketball for her achievement during the winter trimester at…
Wiscasset School Committee
A second, new member will be needed for the Wiscasset School Committee in June. Colleen Bennett has decided she will not seek a second term.
Bennett’s announcement April 14 came less than…
Wiscasset Public Library
There is a mystery to solve at the Wiscasset Library’s children’s room! With the help of a private eye, the children embark on solving two mysteries by Mercer Maye…
Kindergarten screening for the 2014-15 school year at Edgecomb Eddy School will be held on Wednesday, May 14. All parents who will be registering new kindergarten…
Wiscasset Middle School students participated in the Modern Woodmen of America Speech contest. The 2014 topic was “The Importance of Healthy Living.” The top 12 students presented their speeches…
Boothbay Region YMCA
New to recreational boating? Thinking about buying a boat and getting out on the water this summer? Then come to the Boothbay Region YMCA on May 3 where the Wawenock Sail and Power Squadron will…
Lincoln Academy
It was sunny skies for Lincoln Academy's groundbreaking Friday, April 11.
Sen. Susan Collins, who participated in the groundbreaking…
A Westport Island official predicted April 10 that most of the town's parents will continue to send their children to Wiscasset schools.
But he couldn't be sure of…
Meeting Preview
Westport Island and Alna would pay less to Regional School Unit 12 under the proposed budget the district's board will consider tonight, Thursday, April 10.
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Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset could save about $500,000 over five years by farming out cleaning work at its schools, one company's leaders told the school committee on April 9.
But…
Center for Teaching and Learning
Imagine a school where each day begins with a morning meeting between students and teachers, an informal get together to discuss current events, share news, sing a song,…
Center for Teaching and Learning
On Saturday, March 29, 10 third and fourth graders from Edgecomb’s Center for Teaching and Learning participated in a poetic shorts event at the Maine Coast Bookshop in Damariscotta to promote the…
Meeting Preview
In the first of three meetings in little more than 24 hours, the Wiscasset School Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, to hear a cleaning company’s pitch; then the committee picks…
Bates College student Cormac Walsh of Wiscasset delivered a researched-based presentation at this year's Mount David Summit, the college's annual campus-wide celebration of student academic…
Adult Education
Now that spring is finally here and the weather is getting warmer, soon it will be boating season. Boothbay Region Adult & Community Education…
Boothbay Region YMCA
It’s official! The Montessori school at the Boothbay Region YMCA has a name, date of opening and two…
Wiscasset School Budget
Wiscasset's school committee is looking for a much-pared adult education program that could be run by the town or Regional School Unit 1 in Bath.
The committee has asked Interim…
Coastal Studies for Girls will hold an open house at the Coastal Studies for Girls campus located at 308 Wolfe’s Neck Road in Freeport on Sunday, April 13 from 2-4 p.…
The Lincoln Academy Student Art Show exhibit on display at River Arts, includes ceramics and sculpture, complemented by two-dimensional pieces from Lincoln’s advanced and AP art students. The show…
Wiscasset School Committee
Wiscasset School Committee member Sharon Nichols is leaving the panel two years before her term is up. Her April 3 resignation letter states that she cannot…
Wiscasset School Committee
Talks are under way between Wiscasset and Alternative Organizational Structure (AOS) 98 on two potential partnerships, Wiscasset's interim superintendent Wayne Dorr said April 3.
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Wiscasset High School
Wiscasset High School's graduation rate is still Maine's worst, but its rate and the overall one for Maine are getting better. That's the latest information…
Wiscasset School Committee
The Wiscasset School Committee will continue working tonight, Thursday, April 3, on the town's first school budget outside Regional School Unit 12.
The workshop…
Wiscasset Middle School proudly presents, “Fairy Tale Courtroom.” This very humorous play will be performed by WMS students on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. in the Wiscasset…
School District Withdrawal
Westport Island voters could get decide whether or not to stop work on a possible pullout from Regional School Unit 12. Selectman and Withdrawal Committee Chairman Gerald Bodmer said…
On Thursday, April 3, youth from New England will be convening on the Hyde School campus in Bath for the Maine Youth Leadership Day: Leadership and Character. They…
Adult Education
Join Dianne Daniels, exercise physiologist, to learn The Ten Best Exercises for Osteoporosis on Thursday, April 10. We will discuss…
Wiscasset Primary School
Wiscasset Primary School is looking forward to welcoming the children of our new kindergarten class. These are children who will be five years of…
Katherine Rushlau of Dresden, a journalism major, has been named to the Emerson College (Boston, Mass.) dean's list for the fall 2013 semester. The criterion to make Emerson's dean's list is a…
