The Board of Directors of the Maine Fishermen’s Forum has announced the winners of the 47th annual Scholarship Drawing! Twenty-three applicants were drawn and given book awards.
The…
Education
AUGUSTA — The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a continuation of needed flexibilities for the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the National School Lunch…
Camden Hills Regional High School announces its second quarter honor roll for the 2020-21 academic year.
9th Grade High Honors
Ryan Andersen, George Bickham,…
APPLETON — The school committee for the Appleton Village School has set a special committee meeting for Monday, March 15.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom at 6 p.m.
…
LEWISTON — The following students have been named to the dean's list at Bates College for the fall semester ending in December 2020. This is a distinction earned by students whose grade point…
providing meal assistance
ROCKLAND — On March 5, Brothers of the 9th Masonic District presented a check in the amount of $2,100 to Bobby Deetjen, director of the Midcoast School of Technology, in support of the “Angel Fund…
ORONO — The University of Maine System is preparing to welcome students back to campuses for a traditional, in-person college experience at the start of the fall semester, according to a news…
‘I can be an active, positive force towards education in this great state’
LIMESTONE — Camden’s Greyson Orne, presently a junior at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, has been confirmed by the Maine State Senate as a student trustee member of the…
ROCKPORT — After months of closed door meetings, consultations with attorneys and finally, mediation with Duward Parkinson, the towns of…
AUGUSTA — Representative Scott Cuddy, D-Winterport, and Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, have been working with representatives from the Maine Department of Education to address confusion around the…
Kate Novack, an Emmy-nominated writer-director-producer of documentaries, wrote and directed “Hysterical Girl,” a short film nominated for Best Short by the International Documentary Association.…
studying the chemical process
NSF CAREER award supports Schwartz’s research on the chemical process for making rubber component
ORONO — Delving deeper into the chemical processes used to make various goods from…
$50 poster prize, $75 first-place essay prize
Maine students in grades 4-12 are invited to submit entries for this year’s Law Day contests sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association. Students in grades 4-8 may participate in the art poster…
CANTON, New York — Kassandra Wood, from Lincolnville, has been selected for inclusion on St. Lawrence University's Dean's List for academic achievement during the Fall 2020 semester.
Wood…
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education jointly announced Friday the Mills Administration’s dedicated COVID-19 vaccination clinics for school staff…
first aid, birding, airbnb, pruning, art, and more
The ending of winter and beginning of spring is always a great time to think of starting anew, especially after this past year, said Five Towns Adult Ed, in a news release What better way than…
ROCKPORT — Keeping mum, but confirming that they did meet March 1 as scheduled, the municipal and school attorneys, as well as school superintendent and town managers, convened with a mediator to…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will hold a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 16, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held…
SEARSPORT — The school board for Regional School Unit 20 will hold its next meeting Tuesday, March 9, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held in the SDMHS…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday her administration will align Maine’s vaccination plan with President Biden’s recent directive to make eligible pre-K-12 school staff and child…
collaboration, compromise, and cooperation for the benefit of the group
THOMASTON — Several Thomaston Grammar School students were recognized for the attribute of Teamwork at an assembly on Tuesday, March 2. These students included: Gemma Rubino, Oliver Reavely,…
KINGSTON, Rhode Island — The University of Rhode Island has announced the Fall 2020 Dean's List. The students represent nearly all of Rhode Island's cities and towns, all six New England states,…
HOPE — The school committee for Hope Elementary School will hold its next meeting Monday, March 8, and the meeting’s agenda has been released.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom…
LINCOLNVILLE — The school committee for Lincolnville Central School will be holding a special committee meeting Tuesday, March 9, and the agenda has been released.
The meeting will be…
Application packets due to the Trekkers office by March 15
Trekkers is gearing up to welcome 40 new seventh graders from its six-town service area of Thomaston, Cushing, St. George, South Thomaston, Owls Head and Rockland. Seventh grade students from…
ISLESBORO — Islesboro Central School will be accepting applications for grades 6-12 for the 2021-22 school year. According to the school, in a news release, ICS offers robust, individualized…
Deadline May 1, 2021
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust is currently accepting applications from high school seniors for the Bank’s Career Technology Education Scholarship.
The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to income-…
CAMDEN — Lily Cassidy, a Junior at Watershed School, is collecting used eyeglasses to donate to Asaprosar, an organization that is working to support rural health initiatives in El Salvador. A…
deadline April 30, 2021
ST. GEORGE — The St. George Business Alliance plans to award one $1,000 scholarship to a graduating high school senior from the Town of St. George in the spring of 2021. The student and one parent…
ROCKPORT — The agenda for the next Five Towns CSD school board meeting Wednesday, March 3 has been set.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom and YouTube at 7 p.m.
…
WALDOBORO — The agenda has been set for the next Regional School Unit 40 school board meeting Thursday, March 4.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. with participants joining in via Google…
ROCKLAND — The agenda for the next Regional School Unit 13 school board meeting Thursday, March 4 has been set.
The meeting will be held virtually beginning at 6:30 p.m.
…
Friday, April 16 postmark date
LIBERTY — Liberty Graphics, environmentally conscious T-shirt printers, is currently accepting art submissions to its 24th annual $1,000 art scholarship contest. All high school seniors residing…
deep, slow, fascial and myofascial, coupled with movement re-education
WALPOLE — Anatomy Trains, a nationally certified school for structural integration, is offering an opportunity for a free series of 12 structural bodywork sessions for Covid-19 vaccinated (both…
BELFAST — Mrs. Reynolds has been seen all over the school helping out this year.
While most assistant principals spend their time in their offices, Mrs.…
BOSTON, Massachusetts — In honor of their outstanding academic achievement, Emmanuel College in Boston has named more than 900 students to the Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester.
Local…
‘It's Personal’
ORONO — University of Maine Honors Student Ambassadors Katie Tims and Bailey West are launching the “It’s Personal” personal care items donation campaign to benefit the Black Bear Exchange (BBE)…
wind energy and 3D printing, wildlife, archaeology, sharks
University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer virtual science cafés for teens in grades 7–12, each Tuesday beginning March 2, from 4 - 4:45 p.m.
…
LINCOLNVILLE — The school committee agenda for the next Lincolnville Central School meeting has been set.
The meeting will take place virtually Monday, March 1 at 6 p.m. over Zoom. …
deadline March 3, 2021
The Board of Directors for the Maine Fishermen’s Forum will award $40,000 in scholarships this year, despite having to cancel the live event normally held in March. Applications will be accepted…
print, broadcast, electronic media, or reasonably related field
The Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund and the Agnes Freyer Gibbs Scholarship Fund seek applications from Maine students.
The Gannett Scholarship provides renewable support for…
$1500 scholarships to students making profound impacts on their community
Scholarship providers Zoe Siegel and Parker Harnett have submitted the following:
“How to Help in Maine” is so excited to announce the How to Help in Maine Community Outreach Scholarship,…
supporting military service members and veterans, and their families
The University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) has earned the 2021-2022 Military Friendly® School …
CAMDEN — The agenda for the next SAD 28 school board meeting to be held Feb. 24 has been set.
The meeting will be held virtually over Zoom at 7 p.m.
The meeting will be livestreamed…
CASTINE — William J. Brennan, President of Maine Maritime Academy, announced that the college has hired alumnus Captain Gordon ‘Mac’ MacArthur to serve as master aboard the Training Ship State…
A college president, city managers and school superintendents, including Kathryn Clark, School Union 69, and Maria Libby, Five Town CSD…
ROCKLAND — University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) Provost Joseph Szakas and its UMA Rockland Center announce the 2020 Fall Semester Full-time Dean’s List. Students eligible for the full-time…
pursuing careers in farming, agriculture, or natural resources
Graduating seniors from Maine high schools who are National FFA (Future Farmers of America) Organization members and interested in pursuing a career in farming, agriculture, or natural resources…
GROVE CITY, Pennsylvania — Trevor Iltis, from Rockport, a junior Electrical Engineering major at Grove City College, has been named to the Dean's List with Distinction for the Fall 2020 semester…
ROCHESTER, New York — The following local residents made the Dean's List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2020 Fall Semester: Noah Carrier, of Rockland, who is in the computer…
