ROCKLAND — The Worthington Scholarship Foundation, with a mission to support post-secondary education in Maine, has hired Jay McIntire, of Winslow, as program…
Education
CAMDEN — The First Congregational Church has recently implemented a new Montessori-based curriculum called Godly Play, according to a Church news release.…
ROCKPORT — Dr. Doug Johnstone has enjoyed being a chiropractor for 36 years. He has taught karate at the YMCA for two decades and many young and old have taken his classes. Wednesday nights are…
THOMASTON — The Thomaston Grammar School Common Ground Garden and Outdoor Classroom continues to make itself known.
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CAMDEN — At the Nov. 6 polls, Camden and Rockport citizens voted 2,896 to 2,357 to spend $4.9 million on renovating and repurposing the Mary E. Taylor School on Knowlton Street in Camden,…
FAIRFIELD/ELLSWORTH — Farmers, farm families and farm employees interested in improving farm communications will have three opportunities to participate in a workshop, and up to four farm-coaching…
Rodent watch
The days are shorter and the nights, colder. And rodents are locked in an age-old battle with humans: They want in. You want them out.
This past summer, an unusual number of squirrels…
In their own words
A cold, November rain failed to dampen the spirits of students from the Outdoor Leadership program at Waldo County Technical Center when they invited their Tech Center classmates and teachers to…
Rockland superintendent has long history as educational leader
Superintendent John McDonald, who leads Rockland public schools in Regional School Unit 13, has been honored with the Maine Department of Education 2018 Commissioner’s Award from Commissioner…
2018 elections
ROCKLAND — Voters in Rockland have elected Douglas Curtis, Jr. and Thomas Peaco to represent the city on the RSU 13 School Board.
Curtis and Peaco have been elected to three-year…
BELFAST — Beginning Jan. 22, the University of Maine Hutchinson Center will offer spring courses suitable for qualified high school students as part of UMaine’s…
BELFAST — The University of Maine Hutchinson Center of Belfast will offer a six-session program on restorative practices beginning Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Subsequent dates in 2019 are Jan. 11, Feb. 8…
On Thursday, October 25, several students at Thomaston Grammar School were recognized for the attribute of gratitude. Students were presented with a certificate at a school-wide assembly and will…
College women’s basketball legend provides insight, advice
ASHLAND, VA — When one hears about the accomplishments and accolades collected by Randolph-Macon College women’s basketball head coach Carroll LaHaye, one is likely to assume coaching has…
Midcoast Athletics
BELFAST — The Belfast varsity softball team will be spending its preseason playing exhibition contests in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as part of the Cal Ripken softball spring training…
National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The high school seniors have an opportunity to…
CAMDEN — Every Thursday, up to 10 girls from sixth to 11th grade meet at the Camden Public Library in a club called Girls Who Code. The club, a local offshoot of a…
What’s on the town warrant?
VINALHAVEN — When Vinalhaven voters head to the polls Nov. 6 they will encounter a municipal warrant on improving the playground located at the Vinalhaven School.
The question…
CAMDEN — Midcoast high school students aged aged 15 to 18 have the opportunity to travel abroad next summer as part of Rotary International’s family-to-family short-term exchange program (STEP).…
What’s on the Nov. 6 warrant?
THOMASTON — Thomaston voters will be voting on seven referendum questions on their municipal ballots in the November elections with the highlight question being whether the town should move…
How to relieve effects of being ‘low-receiver’ communities
ROCKPORT — Fayette Town Manager Mark Robinson and Freeport-based attorney Dan Walker joined the Camden and Rockport select boards Monday evening, Oct. 22, to introduce a campaign to better…
THOMASTON — Trekkers is pleased to announce that Katlyn Rich and Shale Peters have both joined the Trekkers team as 2018-2019 AmeriCorps Program Assistants. Katlyn and Shale will…
THOMASTON — This year’s annual Thomaston Grammar School Fall Fest was a resounding success!
The carnival-themed event, which was sponsored by the Friends and Family of Thomaston Grammar…
Introduction to Trekkers’ Programming Principles
ROCKLAND — The Trekkers Training Institute is offering a three-day intensive training, Introduction to Trekkers’ Programming Principles, for youth development practitioners and other professionals…
‘I was very much born into [soccer]’
LEWISTON — Soccer has been a longstanding aspect of Josiah’s Krul’s entire life, and he will be the first to admit as much.
“I was very much born into the sport,” he said an…
Fire Prevention Awareness Week
APPLETON — “I feel cool,” Logan said, as the uniform-clad eighth grader sat in the driver’s seat of an Appleton fire truck. “Very top heavy, but mostly, I just feel cool.”
Logan first tried…
RSU 40 to serve as pilot, along with Calais and RSU 10
The Maine Department of Education has been awarded a 5-year grant ($1.1 million per year) from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
ROCKPORT — Five Town CSD Adult and Community Education Director David Watts and Program Manager Elyse Socker have welcomed Nancy Nickerson and Beverly Shejen to their staff.
Nickerson is…
Waldo County Technical Center treats its students like family with food and clothing programs
WALDO—When students walk through the doors of Waldo County Technical Center each morning, Math teacher Lacey Breems has learned to pinpoint the behavior of a hungry student.
“They can’t…
Bremen’s Apifera Farm holds a ‘Misfit Love Day’ for older special/needs animals
BREMEN— Katherine Dunn and her husband, Martyn, own a farm with a special focus: they take in elder/special needs goats, pigs, sheep, donkeys, cats, dogs and more. Since they moved the entire farm…
THOMASTON — Several Thomaston Grammar School students were recognized for their respectfulness at a school-wide assembly on Friday, Sept. 28…
Belfast Area High School will be disposing of student records for anyone whose date of birth is before 1992, and has reached the age of 26. Only records that are required by the Maine State…
CAMDEN - Eighth grade students from the Lincolnville Center School spent their Saturday, September 29, at Key Bank in the Hannaford’s Plaza doing their fall car wash to help raise funds to finance…
AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta recently honored 90 students as “Rising Scholars,” including ten who attend the UMA Rockland Center. These students…
Oct. 1 public hearing
CAMDEN — On Sept. 19, the Camden-Rockport School Board voted 7 to 0 to place before Camden and Rockport voters a $4.9 million bond proposal to renovate the Mary E.…
Suicide Safer Care Training Portal: screening, intervention, treatment, and support
AUGUSTA – In honor of September's National Suicide Prevention Month, the Maine Center for…
When the high school students of Waldo County enroll at Waldo County Technical Center, they not only become part of the student population, they become part of the WCTC family. …
ROCKLAND – Arts in Action, Arts@Work, and TGS Art Club programs are now taking registrations for the 2018-19 school year.
Youth artists will work with Alexis Iammarino, Cynthia McGuirl, and…
Groundbreaking ceremony for new Camden-Rockport Middle School
CAMDEN – A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday morning, September 13, at Camden-Rockport Middle School, marking the beginning of construction of the new middle school on the grounds of…
BELFAST — Last week Waldo County General Hospital, welcomed a group of 24 seniors from Maine Maritime Academy for their Medical Person in Charge course.
This course is taught by MMA…
Students in grades K-5 at Thomaston Grammar School were excited today for their first day of the 2018-2019 school year.
Despite the heat, students spent time getting to…
Keep to the schedule of building and opening by 2020
CAMDEN — In a joint meeting Aug. 29, the Camden-Rockport School Board, Middle School Building Committee, architects, contractors and a geo-engineer arrived at the same conclusion: To approve a…
Silty clay results in new site work approach
CAMDEN — A joint meeting between the School Administrative District 28 School Board (Camden-Rockport K-8) and the CRMS Building Committee…
NEW LONDON N.H. - A pair of Belfast Area High School graduates have been elected as prominent members of the Student Government Association at Colby-Sawyer College,…
New mission statement: ‘Be Kind. Work Hard. Keep Learning’
The School Administrative District 28 board of directors, which oversees K-8 grades in Camden and Rockport, ha produced a four-year strategic plan, which “outlines three strategic goal…
LAFLEUR AMONG THE FIRST TO EARN CERTIFICATION
SHELBURNE, VERMONT — The Orton Family Foundation awarded certification to three Community Heart & Soul coaches at an event in Golden, Colorado on August 14. Camden resident Jane Lafleur was…
Avian Haven on most common bird injuries, how to help
Summer is a dangerous time for birds, mainly due to human behavior and interference, but there is a lot we can do to be proactive and save their lives.
Avian Haven, a nationally known…
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International offers programs for female educators
AUSTIN, TEXAS —The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International (DKG), a professional organization of women educators, provided an intensive two-week leadership management seminar in 2018.
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It’s getting to be that time....
Listed below are the 2018-2019 School bus routes for students from Camden/Rockport attending School Administrative District 28 and the FiveTown CSD (Camden Hills Regional High School).…
Janet Redfield installs 100 glass fish in Portland elementary school
Lincolnville artist Janet Redfield recently installed 100 fused stained glass fish in hallways and spaces of the new Amanda C. Rowe School Elementary School, on Orono Road, in Portland. Redfield…
