Cheers and jeers from around the news:

• Thunderous cheers to what’s been happening at Leavitt Area High School.

It started Tuesday with the amazing night of Joshua Titus, a senior hoopster with high-functioning autism who finally suited up for the Red Eddies in the last minutes of their game with Edward Little. When his three-pointer arced through the net, the ensuing cheers shook the gym in Auburn to its foundation.

Then Wednesday, Leavitt’s Patrick Hartnett was named high school principal of the year by the Maine Principals’ Association. This time, it was Leavitt’s gymnasium that got a pounding, from the stomps of some 700 students assembled to watch Hartnett receive his award.

Two days, two standing ovations, two great stories. That’s one good week.

• Jeers to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

This week, the court overturned a default judgment against a former Colby College student who lives in Massachusetts because, in part, a printed notice about it was only put in the newspaper of Lincoln County (where the plaintiff, a former Colby student, lives).

“Fewer people now read print newspapers, and those who do are likely to read them less intensely because an increasingly greater portion of the population obtains more of its information through television, the Internet, and other electronic media,” the court said.

We’d say that if the court was interested in due process, instead of the letter of the law, it should have ruled the notice should have been published where the defendant had a reasonable chance to see it. Say in Waterville, where Colby is, or in Massachusetts.

Looking for somebody who lives in Massachusetts and once attended Colby through the newspaper in Lincoln County wouldn’t have made sense 50 years ago, much less today. The medium wasn’t the problem in this case.

It was the message.

• Cheers to Poland Spring and Kingfield for the successful, non-snowstorm-postponed grand opening of their new bottling plant. It is a welcome dose of good economic news.

The town and bottler have worked well together to bring the project to fruition; each deserves the accolades it has received. Especially Poland Spring.

The company takes heat from some factions for its business and corporate ownership, but its contribution to Maine is too significant to discount. This state should both safeguard its groundwater supply and the industries and jobs that rely upon it.

But these provisions shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.

• Finally, cheers to Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Olympia Snowe for leading Congress in making the stimulus legislation more stimulative, instead of swollen.

We hope for their success. The country needs it.

Bipartisanship is more than a word, it is an action, as it cannot exist without the efforts of lawmakers to reach across aisles. Collins and Snowe are doing so with the stimulus, both to make it better and get it passed. That’s how it should go.