BETHEL — Telstar Regional High School seniors received $167,000 for higher education during Scholarship Night on Tuesday. A total of 238 awards were given from businesses, memorials and Project Opportunity. According to the SAD 44 website, Project Opportunity is a partnership between the SAD 44 educational community and its surrounding business community. It’s geared toward […]
telstar
Posted inLocal Sports, SJVarsity
Orono capturse Class C girls’ title
Mountain Valley’s Lauren Sterling (left) takes the lead during the 100 meter hurdles as part of the State Class C Track and Field Championship Meet at Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft Saturday. Sterling placed first in the event. DOVER-FOXCROFT — When Hannah Steelman entered Orono High School as a freshman, the Red Riots’ track and field […]
advertisement
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
New mural brightens Telstar cafeteria
This year Telstar High School started a new Mural Club, with teacher Melissa Prescott as an advisor. The group met weekly, and video conferenced several times with world-renowned artist Lady Pink, who helped them refine and organize their ideas into one composition for a wall in the school cafeteria. “The students began the design […]
Posted inConnections
Telstar Girl Scouts donate cookies to GRAMPS for home delivery meal program
BETHEL — Girl Scouts for the Telstar Service Unit (which includes girls from Peru, Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, Rumford and Mexico) recently dropped off 190 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to be distributed by GRAMPS for their home delivery meal program. Girls took Cookie Shares orders in January for the Meals on Wheels program. GRAMPS oordinator […]
Posted inLocal Sports, SJVarsity
H.S. baseball: Ramblers rally to rout Rebels
Winthrops Jackson Ladd tracks down a line drive to the outfield to record an out during Monday’s victory over Telstar at Kents Hill School. READFIELD — Winthrop wasn’t told it would be playing baseball on a raw, drizzly Monday until about four hours before game time. It took the Ramblers some time to warm up […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Beards and kangaroos at Telstar science expo
BETHEL — A thirst for knowledge and a hunger for learning were both satisfied at the Science Expo on Friday night at Telstar Middle and High schools in Bethel. Sarah Southam, who teaches high school math and science, was excited about Friday’s expo because it is the first year that high school students have participated. […]
Posted inLocal Sports, SJVarsity
HS Baseball: Telstar wins wild MVC opener over Dirigo on walk-off sacrifice bunt
READFIELD — If ever a baseball game called for a walk-off “sacrifice” bunt by the winning team’s cleanup hitter, Wednesday’s Mountain Valley Conference season-opener between Telstar and Dirigo was it. Boston Ludden scored the winning run from second on Josh Eliot’s bunt in the bottom of the seventh, the result of a fittingly-wild finish to […]
Posted inLocal Sports, SJVarsity
Telstar baseball 2017 preview
Coach: John Eliot (Fourth year) Class: C; Conference: MVC Last year’s record: 3-13 Returning athletes: Seniors — Tanner Wheeler (P/OF), Josh Eliot (P/1B), Kellen True (OF); Juniors — Boston Ludden (C/3B/P), Jarrett Bean (C/OF/1B), Bobby Sicote (P/3B), Zach Hill (P/SS). Key losses: Hunter Williamson, Reggie Westleigh. Promising newcomers: Sophomores — Tristen Lilly, Joe Dillion; Freshmen — Tyler Hill, Devin Mason. Season outlook: The Rebels […]
Posted inSun Spots
Volunteer needed to give sewing lessons
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Lewiston Housing Authority runs an afterschool program for elementary, middle and early high school youth. We are in need of a volunteer who is skilled in machine sewing. We previously ran a very successful program a few years ago as part of our Aspirations club for middle and high school students, but […]
Posted inLocal Sports
And One: The future fares fairly well against the present
Mt. Blue head coach Fred Conlogue and his staff went into Thursday’s matchup against Spruce Mountain with a plan that might seem crazy, at least on paper. They decided to hand the responsibility of guarding Phoenix phenom Alex Bessey to a freshman, Lexi Mittelstadt. A freshman. Now, Bessey still scored 22 points, and the entire Mt. Blue lineup seemed to be keeping an eye on her, but Mittelstadt was […]