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EL Asks

What do you daydream about most during the day?JamesPhilbrookJuniorOf being a dodgeball champion.EmilyMarronSophomore Being in the Olympics for synchronized swimming.ElizabethStaufferFreshmanOf what I can become in the future.WadeColonJuniorFootball and finding a good college.TomWrightJuniorBasketball and going home.

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New school building being planned

“While I deeply believe in the preservation of the history of our community, I don’t believe the structure was built with the structural and aesthetic integrity that our community deserves,” said Shawn Rice, teacher at Edward little and Coach of the girls tennis team. His sentiments are shared by both over-crowded students and under-facilitated faculty […]

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Guzheng, an elegant tune

The spirit of Chinese music is deeply rooted in Confucian philosophy. Music is the harmony of Tian and Di (heaven and earth), and our ability and spiritual understanding. It explains that tones are the substance of music, whereas melody and rhythm are the appearance of tones. Thus, emphasis in Chinese music is on the single […]

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It may be tasty, but what are you really eating?

Living in the United States provides so many luxuries for us that many citizens of other countries around of the world do not often receive. For instance, we have many freedoms guaranteed to us directly through our Constitution, from the freedom of speech to the freedom of religion; from the freedom to assemble peacefully to […]

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Show time!

Trinity Catholic will be putting on the play “The Tale of Snow White” on April 3 at 6 p.m., and April 4 at 2 p.m., at the St. Dominic High School auditorium. Tickets, $5 for adults and $2.50 for students, can be purchased in the Lobby.This play is not like the original story of Snow […]

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Basketball at Tripp

The boys’ basketball program has been struggling the last couple of years at Tripp. Tripp has been playing some of the toughest teams in the state and it has been a rough time for them. Last year, the boys’ basketball team had zero wins and eleven losses. There was one game where the team came […]

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Scholastic art awards

For sixteen years now, the Heartwood College of Art has been committed to encouraging emerging artists while nurturing raw talent. This year, this small college took on a huge, new supporting role as Maine’s regional affiliate for the 2009 National Scholastic Art Awards. Heartwood College of Art’s President, Berri Kramer, compared their faculty to a […]

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The Academic Advocate

Q: What are you looking most forward to this spring and why?Sammy PurcellSeniorA: This spring I am looking forward to graduation and going off to college.Dakota LandrySophomore A: I am looking forward to warm weather and no snow so I can do more things outside.Angel StroutFreshmanA: I am looking forward to the warm weather so […]

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Winter in Monmouth

Though winter just started the twenty-first of December, snow days are already starting to pile on. As we cruise through the second and third months of winter we can just expect more and more snow, but the down side to that is more snow-days. As nice as a day off from school sounds, you will […]

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Day dream

As I took my seat in math I looked at the window. A tree was blowing in the chilly, Maine, wind. It was rather pretty and I couldn’t help but to imagine climbing that very tree and observing the world below. So, I figured if I could go that far why stop there? Why not […]