LEWISTON — Neighbors of the former Pettingill Elementary School will get their park but not city help developing it, city councilors decided Tuesday. Councilors decided against subdividing the 2.11-acre lot and selling part of it for housing lots. Instead, they kept the entire area for playground, park and recreation. A crowd of about 80 people, […]
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Poland High supports School Spirit Challenge
Hundreds of students, parents and teachers packed the Poland Regional High School gym for a special two-hour pep rally for the School Spirit Challenge on Thursday morning. During the winter sports season, CBS 13’s “Daybreak” show has been broadcasting live at high schools all over southern and central Maine. It’s been a way for schools […]
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Teen driver killed on way to school
TOPSFIELD — An 18-year-old Brookton Plantation man driving to school was killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer Wednesday morning. Dylan Porter was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred at about 7:10 a.m. on U.S. Route 1 about two miles north of Route 6, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reported. Porter […]
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$10K gift allows St. Dom’s to buy iPads
AUBURN — A surprise donation a few days before Christmas is allowing Saint Dominic Academy to buy iPad mini tablet computers for students in elementary classes, Principal Donald Fournier said Thursday. On Dec. 20, a husband and wife came to see Fournier, expressing their wish to give the school $10,000 to be used for a specific […]
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Historic Portland school building project approved
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Planning Board has approved plans to redevelop the historic Nathan Clifford Elementary School building into market-rate housing. No one at Tuesday night’s public hearing spoke against or in support of the reuse effort. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/18GCTjv) reported that Developers Collaborative of Portland plans to build 22 units in […]
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G. DeMoras: Try using games
Why are teachers blamed when students fail to learn in school? I came from a poor family; it is no excuse to be a failure. I did not know any English when I went to school and had difficulty in memorizing lessons. Nuns make learning a game. In primary grade, one wore a green crown […]
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Local schools honored for prevention programs
LEWISTON — Let’s Go! 5-2-1-0, a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center, has recognized 210 school, after-school and childcare programs across Maine for supporting children and families in healthy eating and active living. The recognition was given to those organizations and programs that follow five […]
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Nevada student opens fire outside middle school, wounds 2 boys and kills teacher, then self
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two 12-year-old boys and killing a math teacher who was trying to protect children from their classmate. The unidentified shooter killed himself with the gun after a rampage that […]
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RSU 52 students get lesson from science ship off Puerto Rico
TURNER — Students in Greene, Leeds and Turner got a science lesson from their teacher Wednesday from a ship off Puerto Rico. Cindy Duguay, a gifted and talented teacher for Regional School Unit 52, is on the Nautilus ship, participating in research and mapping the Puerto Rico Trench, a depression off the coast of San […]
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East Millinocket residents vote to accept Powerball winner’s $1.8 million gift to repair school roof
EAST MILLINOCKET — In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, more than 60 residents voted in favor of accepting a $1.8 million gift from a former resident who offered to repair Schenck High School’s leaky roof. The vote was made during a special town meeting in the high school auditorium that lasted all of five minutes, […]