The Academy opens up its summer session this month on Monday, July 23 and runs through Friday, July 27. All registered players will check in between 8:30 and 9 a.m.. Academy hours run from 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. for 5-7 year olds. All others will stay until 2 p.m. The goalkeeper sessions and the Elite 7-10th […]
2018
Posted inConnections, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Scholarship available for Livermore residents
LIVERMORE — Selectpersons were told Monday that applications for the $1,000 Pollard Scholarship are available at the Town Office, 10 Crash Road. Completed applications must be returned to the Town Office by 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7. Each year the scholarship is presented to a Livermore resident pursuing an academic or trade education degree. The […]
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Connections, sj-web
Buckfield teacher receives McCarthy Education Innovation Award
PORTLAND — The Gulf of Maine Research Institute honored Buckfield Junior-Senior High School teacher Gretchen Kimball with the fifth annual McCarthy Education Innovation Award. GMRI education staff presented the award during a ceremony at the Maine Science Teachers Association conference held recently. Each year, GMRI presents the McCarthy award to the Maine teacher who best […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Why aren't wages rising?
WASHINGTON — It’s a mystery. The U.S. economy seems strong. Since the nadir of the Great Recession, employers have added about 19 million workers. The unemployment rate is 4 percent, near the lowest level since 2000. By standard economic theory, the strong demand for labor should be pushing up wages. But that isn’t happening. Wage […]
Posted inConnections, Rumford Falls Times
Rotarians host LifeFlight director
RUMFORD — Tom Judge, executive director of LifeFlight of Maine, addressed the June 18 meeting of the River Valley Rotary Club at HOPE Association. Judge, of Port Clyde, said 2,400 patients have been served this year. The helicopter team includes a pilot, a nurse and paramedics. A team of eight mechanics check the helicopters daily. […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Sweden prepares for Russian aggression
Russia’s heinous 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea continues to spur military responses in Free Europe. This week, Finland’s and Sweden’s defense ministers signed a defense agreement covering operations in war time as well as peace time training and crisis preparation. Since Moscow’s Crimean caper, closer defense cooperation to the point of military alliance has […]
Posted inConnections, Rumford Falls Times
River Valley Rotarians welcome guests
The River Valley Rotary Club welcomed two guests to its recent Fellowship Luncheon: Victoria Forkus of Bryant Pond who is interning with Rotarian and Rumford Town Manager Linda J. Briggs, and Realtor Brenda James of BG Realty, who has applied for membership and was a guest of Rotarian Catherine Johnson-Lavorgnia. From left are Briggs, Forkus, […]
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Don't cry for Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel is, her supporters like to gloat, the leader of the free world. Just don’t ask her to spend as if she is. Donald Trump has made the German chancellor one of his favorite rhetorical targets, especially over Germany’s anemic defense expenditures. This has led to worries about the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance, […]
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Farwell student awarded scholarship
Barbara Bush Scholarship winner and Farwell Elementary School fifth-grader Ella Penley is welcomed by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ to her office in Washington, D.C. Collins announced the four inaugural scholarship winners in a video played to students, faculty and family at Farwell recently. President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush visited Farwell Elementary […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Pitts is kidding us
Somehow I do not think columnist Leonard Pitts solved his problem? in trying to decide whether to be a liberal or a conservative. He is kidding us. He never had a problem with that question. He is a liberal and always has been a liberal as his columns through the years will attest. He is […]