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A mortarboard message is displayed June 6 by an Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School graduate during commencement at Donald Gouin Athletic Field on Alpine Street in Paris. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
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Nicole joined Sun Journal’s Western Maine Weeklies group in 2019 as a staff writer for the Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser. Later she moved over to the Advertiser Democrat where she covers...
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A mortarboard message is displayed June 6 by an Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School graduate during commencement at Donald Gouin Athletic Field on Alpine Street in Paris. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Surrounded by diplomas, Cedar Worster, student body president at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, welcomes classmates, their families, friends and school staff June 6 at Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. (Nicole Carter/Staff Writer)
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Salutatorian Kayla Palmer delivers her address June 6 during graduation ceremonies at Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. Palmer used her time to honor educator John Pinto, who died in 2024. “He had a way of making every person in the room feel like they mattered. He just wanted you to show up, try hard, and keep going. Even when life got hard, he showed up with faith and grit. He never stopped caring about the people around him. That's what passion looks like.” (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Antonella Gilbert takes a video as Valedictorian Victoria Noblin delivers her address June 6 at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School's graduation at the Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. Noblin gave a moving speech about what is was like for her to transfer as a sophomore to a school of 1,000 plus students from one where she had been one of 10 students in her freshman class. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Former Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Salutatorian Kursten Tenhoor delivers the keynote address titled "What Burns Builds Character" at graduation June 6 at Donald Gouin Athletic Field Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. Tenhoor is the daughter of former teacher and coach John Pinto, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2024. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School graduates react June 6 to commencement speaker Kursten Tunhoor as she shares succinct advice with the class of 2026, courtesy of her father and their late teacher, John Pinto. From left are Ronan Brown, Autumn Palmer, Valedictorian Victoria Noblin and Salutatorian Kayla Palmer. “I wondered what my dad might say to you all today, had he been given the chance,” Tenhoor said. “I've come to realize that there's one common theme in all he taught me over the years. ‘Do hard things.’ The things you don't want to do. Especially when we don't want to do them ... Doing hard things now, every day, builds stamina ... It requires strength." (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Teppo Johnson receives his diploma June 6 during Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School’s commencement at Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. (Courtesy Cylus Colello)
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School senior Gavin Gauthier asks for a crowd reaction June 6 before he receives his diploma during graduation at Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School seniors toss their caps in the air at the end of commencement June 6 at Donald Gouin Athletic Complex on Alpine Street in Paris. (Courtesy Brewster Burns)
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