MONMOUTH — Monmouth Academy Class Day awards were presented on June 5 as follows: Brie-Anna Bates: Betty S. Davis Senior Athletic Award. Brock Bates: Betty S. Davis Senior Athletic Award. Violette Beaulieu: Monmouth Federal Credit Union Further Education Award in Memory of Robert Walker and Pauline McDougald, Marjorie Ham Scholarship, Tyler/Grandmaison MELMAC Scholarship. McKenzie Boucher: […]
June 2020
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South Paris student receives medical scholarship
SOUTH PARIS — The Diane E. Curtis Medical Scholarship, started in 2014 to honor the late wife of Thomas H. L. Curtis, a resident of Norway, has been awarded to Marissa D. Paine of South Paris. The $1,000 scholarship is given annually to a deserving student in Oxford or Androscoggin County who wishes to pursue […]
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Federal funding not enough to meet farmers’ needs, state official says
Maine Agriculture Commissioner Amanda Beal told lawmakers Thursday that although farmers have been innovative in dealing with pandemic-related disruptions, they need more help to survive.
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Maine cancels thousands more bogus unemployment claims as new filings fall sharply
The state says it canceled $13 million in unemployment benefits as the weekly number of new jobless claims hits the lowest point since the pandemic hit Maine.
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RSU 73 sets budget information meeting June 23
The change from June 15 is because of state rules on the size of public gatherings.
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1.5 million more laid-off workers seek unemployment benefits
Nearly 21 million people in the U.S. are officially classified as unemployed.
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The Latest: Protests intensify campaigns to remove Confederate monuments around U.S.
The latest on protests against racism and police brutality. The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in […]
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Farmington protest organizers discuss their motivations
Farmington’s Black Lives Matter protest organizers have been primarily youth-led, and they are determined to continue their involvement with the movement.
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The Latest: Downplaying virus risk, Trump gets back to business as usual
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic around the U.S. and the world. WASHINGTON — At the White House, aides now routinely flout internal rules requiring face masks. The president’s campaign is again scheduling mass arena rallies. And he is back to spending summer weekends at his New Jersey golf club. Three months after President Trump […]
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Unprecedented ceremony for Telstar seniors
REGION — Donning their caps, gowns and masks, the 37 graduates of the Telstar High School class of 2020 made the most of their unorthodox ceremony. With pomp and circumstance playing, seniors marched from the upper parking lot of South Ridge down in front of the stage before taking a seat in chairs spread six […]