Class of 2017 graduates from Bates
Bates College awarded diplomas to 458 students on the historic quad of its Lewiston campus Sunday. It was the college’s 151st commencement. Geoffrey Canada, an American educator whose work has...
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Sanford students delving into mystery of child’s grave
SANFORD — In the early 1930s, more than six dozen coffins were exhumed from the overgrown Woodlawn Cemetery, carried a mile away and re-interred at the town’s new municipal cemetery. The grave of one...
View ArticleBiddeford rehab project transforms home and students, has community building...
BIDDEFORD — For years, the home at 471 Main St. sat empty, the paint peeling and roof leaking. The long-abandoned property – acquired by the city through unpaid back taxes – soon will be back on the...
View ArticleCheck out our lists of top high school seniors for 2017
Biddeford High School Top Students Ashley Paul, (Valedictorian, summa cum laude); Madison Perry (Salutatorian, magna cum laude) Jacob Bilsky; Noah Gagne Magna cum laude: Brady Crepeau; Joseph Robert...
View ArticleSpeller from Gray nails early words at national bee, but falls short of...
Naomi Zarin, the Maine State Spelling Bee champion from Gray, correctly spelled both her onstage words Wednesday at the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee but fell a few points short of joining 40...
View ArticleSenate Republicans offer $100 million for schools if voter-approved tax...
State budget negotiations appeared to begin in earnest Wednesday, with Senate Republicans offering to make $100 million in new funding available to schools if Democrats agree to repeal a voter-approved...
View ArticleLePage vows to veto any school funding increase that doesn’t include...
Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday vowed to veto any budget that contains additional money for education but does not make administrative reforms to Maine’s public school system. Speaking during a morning...
View ArticleEx-Penn State president will serve 2-month jail sentence
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham B. Spanier was ordered Friday to spend at least two months in jail and another two on house arrest for endangering children by...
View ArticleWaterville planners likely to weigh final proposal for athletic facility Monday
WATERVILLE — The Planning Board on Monday expects to consider approving a final plan for a $200 million, 350,000-square-foot athletic complex at Colby College. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in...
View ArticleGraduates to watch in Maine’s class of 2017
The class of 2017 has some pretty remarkable students, including these driven young people.
View ArticleMCI grads ‘honored to have gone to this school’
PITTSFIELD — Norbert W. Young Jr. stood on the stage Sunday to give the keynote address at Maine Central Institute’s 148th commencement exercises, 51 years after he gave the valedictory address at his...
View ArticleSprawling solar array taking shape at Colby College in Waterville
WATERVILLE — While the weather Monday afternoon may not have been the most inspiring for solar energy developments, work steadily progressed on Colby College’s 5,300-panel solar array as the college...
View ArticleNine Westbrook school buses taken off road because of expired stickers
Nine Westbrook school buses have been temporarily pulled from the road because of expired inspection stickers. Dean Flanagin, director of operations at the Westbrook School Department, said six regular...
View ArticleParents’ First Amendment suit seeks to allow disabled son to record school day
A Topsham couple is pursuing an unusual First Amendment case against the local school district in order to allow their disabled son to carry a recording device. Ben Pollack, 17, has autism and a...
View ArticleNew UMaine Augusta president expected to be named
The University of Maine System’s board of trustees is expected to name a new president for the University of Maine at Augusta by the end of the week, less than four weeks before James Conneely’s last...
View ArticleInterfaith Baccalaureate Ceremony draws crowd in Scarborough
More than 150 graduating seniors from Scarborough, Cheverus, Waynflete and other area high schools were expected to attend the annual Interfaith Baccalaureate Ceremony held Wednesday evening at St....
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Portland High today will hand diplomas to 7 sets of siblings
Deya Ibrahim, left, 20, and 18-year-old Baha Ibrahim, graduating siblings in Portland High School’s class of 2017, came to Maine from Jordan just three years ago and credit their mom with their...
View ArticleGrand day for graduates in Portland
Ninety-three Casco Bay High School seniors received diplomas Thursday evening in commencement exercises at Merrill Auditorium, capping off a busy week of graduation ceremonies for Portland’s three high...
View ArticleRebecca Wyke named new UMA president
AUGUSTA — Rebecca Wyke was named the new president of the University of Maine at Augusta Friday, bringing stability to the university after a string of leadership changes that began in 2014. Wyke, of...
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