On March 7, six brave Monmouth Academy students jumped into the chilly waters of Old Orchard Beach. Luckily, it was a warm winter day of 50 degrees, making the dip a little easier. The six brave polar dippers were Garrison Beck, Eric Smith, Caitlin Robichau, Tierra Sanford, Andrea Pomerleau, and Chelsey St. Michel. These students […]

Oh my lovely friend Sierra! Oh, how I can’t live without her!! Nobody can live without friends in their lives. That’s why I have a lot of friends. So, I wont be lonely. The reason why I am writing an article about my best friend Sierra is because she is important to me. She is […]

Do you every wonder about the people you meet, wonder if they have a lot or if they barely have enough to eat. Do you think about someone else’s day, if it’s going okay, if they have someone who is sick, or if their car ended up in a ditch?What do you do when you […]

In two months, Tripp Middle School will be starting softball season. The school’s team will be called the Tripp Tigers.Last year we didn’t have enough seventh and eighth graders that signed up for softball so we had to make them one team. This year we got new seventh graders who played softball on the recreational […]

Life is about making decisions. Whether they are good or bad, we learn from them, and add them to our box of “been there done that, and I’d rather not do it again”. On Friday, March 6th the Saint Dom’s family had the privilege of playing host to Mike McCoy, who came to us to […]

Testing, testing, testing. Well, that’s how it seemed for a few days at schools around Maine. Earlier in March, grades 3-8 participated in taking the Maine Education Assessments. These are tests that students take which differ from science to writing to math and more. Over the years, there have been changes made for the tests. […]

We are flying back in time (courtesy of the U.S. history one class express) to the 1800 Presidential debate. The class has been split into two groups, the Federalists and the Democratic- Republicans. For those of you who don’t know, the election was between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. However, in our class we substituted […]

Seventh and eighth graders started out in the Lewiston Middle School cafeteria on Friday, February 6, then they split in two groups. One group went to CMMC. The other, that’s my group,went to TD Banknorth. The TD Banknorth group piled into a bus and left the school. We went to the bank behind Bates Mill. […]

Very soon, students will be taking the ghastly MEA’s. The 2009 Maine Education Assessments will be taking place all over the state of Maine from March 2 to March 20. While kids have been dreading these since the first day of each new school year, schools love them. They show each child’s progress as well […]

On the night of February 28, Team Monmouth held the fourth annual Father/Daughter Dance. The cost was $15 per couple. Many people attended the dance; somewhere around 150 to 200 people came. The girls wore the most adorable dresses, and their father’s wore tuxedos. As the dance wore on, the DJ played a variety of […]