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Gould Academy students place in Camden essay event
Two Gould Academy students are among the winners of the Camden Conference’s annual Bill Taylor Award for their essay related to the 2022 Conference, Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad. Thomas Lowell was the second prize winner, and Burke MacLeay shared third prize with Samantha Goodwin of Piscataquis Community High School. Pisctaquis student Ruth O. […]
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Gould students head to Chicago for national quiz tournament
The academy is the only Maine school competing in the Small School National Championship Tournament.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Gould lighting project presented to planning board
BETHEL — Gould Academy came before the Bethel Planning Board on Thursday, Dec. 8, to discuss the idea of having ski slopes open at night open to the community with a dozen lights surrounding it. The idea is called the Pine Hill Lighting Project and was presented by Benjamin Kamilewicz. While the planning board did […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Dogs of Bethel: Teva, the quiet companion
BETHEL — Naomi has a unique friendship with her three-year-old dog that is hard to find even among people. The type of friendship where two people can be in the same room and sit in silence for hours and never feel any sort of awkwardness. “She’s very much like me. Like the fact that she […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Dogs of Bethel: Mookey and Marshall, the dynamic duo
BETHEL — When Denise Manning gets home from work, her golden retriever, Marshall, 2, will follow her around and bonk the back of her legs with a toy in his mouth as he always does. A young pup whose full of energy, loves attention, and is a therapy dog, Marshall always has a toy in […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Robots roaming Bethel earn one young man an education
BETHEL — What’s a robot doing in Bethel, Maine? This story starts when a step-father and step-son are talking one day after the step-father gets home from work. The step-father tells his step-son he’s having a problem at work. He’s a snowmaker working at Sunday River. It’s December, the middle of the busiest snow season, […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Gould, Sunday River, work together
BETHEL — Gould students and staff spent a day of their winter break helping Sunday River inspect their snowmaking pipe with the schools remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV). Students used the ROV, donated anonymously to Gould, to look over 48-inch-diameter pipe that transports water from the Sunday River to the Snowflake Factory at the base […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Gould has first COVID case
BETHEL — Last week, Gould Academy Head of School Tao Smith announced that someone on campus had tested positive for coronavirus. A statement from Gould said that testing and contact tracing had been performed and that the identified people were in quarantine. According to Gould, the case occurred during Gould’s break between the fall and […]