Novel program draws out-of-state students, fuels jump in UMaine admissions
The University of Maine’s new “flagship match” program has been so successful at boosting enrollment by bringing in out-of-state students that the university is considering expanding the program beyond...
View ArticleColby College’s 5,505-panel solar array will be one of largest in the state
More than 5,000 solar panels will be installed on Colby College property off Washington Street in Oakland this year as part of a solar energy project that will be one of the largest in the state. The...
View ArticleNew law may cost North Carolina college system federal funds
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s prized public universities could be the biggest losers as state leaders defend a new law limiting the rights of LGBT people. The 17-university system, which includes...
View ArticleSuperintendent’s judgment questioned, and son’s hiring ‘is just the latest...
Frank Sherburne is no stranger to criticism. In less than five years as superintendent of School Administrative District 6 in Buxton, he’s been accused of unfairly pushing out a principal, having...
View ArticleColby museum receives rare series of 100 Picasso etchings
The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville has acquired a set of Pablo Picasso’s etchings from the 1930s considered the artist’s “greatest achievement in the print medium” and a hallmark of...
View ArticleFormer ed tech charged with sexual assault lacked state approval to work in...
Former education technician Zachariah Sherburne, who worked in two school districts and has been charged with sexually assaulting a student, lacked state approval to work in the classroom, according to...
View ArticleRita Moreno busts a rhyme at Berklee College of Music
BOSTON — Rita Moreno says it was the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” that inspired her to bust a rhyme while delivering the commencement address at the Berklee College of Music. The actress and singer...
View ArticleGardiner students hear stories of women’s movement – from the trenches
GARDINER — When Julia Walkling’s mother marched for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century, a man told her she should have been at home cooking dinner for her husband. When Gilda Nardone first...
View ArticleCritic of SAD 6 superintendent ejected from school board meeting
BUXTON — Police removed a woman from the School Administrative District 6 board meeting Monday night after she started shouting “Resign!” to Superintendent Frank Sherburne, who has been under fire for...
View ArticlePortland voters approve $103.6 million education budget
Portland voters on Tuesday approved the proposed $103.6 million education budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Voters were asked two questions at the polls. The first asked if they supported...
View ArticleUNE president Danielle Ripich plans ‘a real retirement’ next year
University of New England President Danielle Ripich is retiring in 2017, ending her tenure after overseeing a decade of dramatic growth at the school’s campuses in Biddeford and Portland, and opening a...
View ArticleGrammy Foundation awards Portland High School $5,500 music grant to fund...
Portland High School is starting a steel drum band as a way to expand its music program beyond band and chorus and to appeal to a wider group of students, thanks to a $5,500 grant from the Grammy...
View ArticleNepotism policy was violated, SAD 6 board says, but no action against...
BUXTON — The School Administrative District 6 board didn’t punish Superintendent Frank Sherburne despite acknowledging late Tuesday that the district’s nepotism policy was violated when the district...
View Article11 Maine high school students named National Merit Scholars
Eleven Maine high school students have been named National Merit Scholarship winners. National Merit Scholarship winners receive $2,500 scholarships and are the finalists in each state judged to have...
View ArticleCheverus High School names new principal
Cheverus High School has picked John Moran as its new principal. Moran, who begins July 1, has been principal since 2008 at St. Louis University High School, a Jesuit college prep school of 1,100...
View ArticleTeachers union, parent call for state action on SAD 6 superintendent
A parent in School Administrative District 6 has filed a complaint and the state teachers’ union has called for the Department of Education to investigate the district after the school board failed to...
View ArticleSAD 6 risked conflict of interest in using own counsel for probe
The School Administrative District 6 school board bucked the conventional wisdom – and its own past practice – when it decided to use its own legal counsel to investigate whether the superintendent,...
View ArticleMaranacook seniors will earn associate degrees and diplomas this month
READFIELD — High school seniors have many reasons for going to college. Maranacook Community High School senior Amy Lapierre has one in particular. Lapierre, 18, is one of two Maranacook students...
View ArticleMaine has two winners at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Paige Brown has been in nerd heaven much of this week. The Bangor High School senior took her science project, on removing phosphorous from water, to the Intel International Science and Engineering...
View ArticleTrailblazing woman on path to train priests
MUNDELEIN, Ill. — On the bucolic Mundelein campus that houses a theological university and the largest Roman Catholic seminary in the U.S., there are 220 men studying to be priests – plus one woman...
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