Grad Tidings: Meet some great graduating high school seniors
In the series featuring high school seniors as graduation season nears, the Sun Journal will profile a randomly chosen top 10 student from 16 high schools in central and western Maine.
Grad Tidings: For more than a year during the pandemic, Hebron Academy's student magazine stopped publishing. Then, Nola Goodwin came along and gave the biannual publication a fresh start.
When Brendan Palmer was made a captain on the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School soccer team last fall, he knew it wasn't because he was particularly good at the sport.
Emily Hammond is No. 3 in her class at Mt. Blue High School. "Both my mother and brother were 3rd as well. It's like a weird family coincidence," she said.
Grad Tidings: Lisbon Keenan Overbo-Welker, who said he wants to be recognized for the things he does and not for letters and numbers he receives in school, plans to stay in state for college.
Grad Tidings: Between rigorous coursework at school, two seasons of track & field and a part-time job, it is hard to imagine Leavitt Area High School senior Emma Couturier has time for much else.