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OHCHS seniors Derrek Brooker (left) and Rowan Cayer stand with Rowan’s father Jeff on a suspension bridge that spans Stony Brook in South Paris. The students’ plan to repair the bridge as their senior project is in limbo, as SAD 17 has suspended the program due to COVID-19. The bridge provides access to a lodge owned by the First Congregational Church of South Paris that local Boy Scout troops use for camping and merit badge training. Nicole Carter / Advertiser Democrat

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...