In the legislature, they are thinking about making a four day school week. I know, I know – great. Right? However, did you ever think of all of the negatives about this change as well as the positives?If we changed our week to a day less, things could go terribly wrong. For one, the day […]

The end of the basketball season is always the hardest part especially when you play your last game. Our Monmouth Middle School girls basketball team had a very good year. Our coach was very impressed with us. To go into a Capital Area League and come in second place overall is pretty good.For the first […]

Remember back in grade school when you had recess time? However, what happened if you did not turn in your homework or were not behaving well in class for that day? Most likely, you were asked to stay in during recess to either get your homework done or serve your punishment, due to the bad […]

I shouldn’t be just saying a day because I am with my twin sister all the time. So we will say for life…Yes, I know I won’t be with her all the time when I graduate, so I want to spend all the time I can get with my sis before we do graduate. I […]

This year the senior class of Monmouth Academy was bound and determined to win. Coming so close last year, losing by only five points to last year’s seniors, and it being our last chance to win, really provided an extra boost. There was some fierce competition all week long. The seniors used everything they had […]

During Catholic Schools Week, the girls’ seventh and eighth grade A-team played our fellow Catholic School team, Southern Maine Catholic at St. Dominic High School. The game was well attended by teachers, students and parents, all there to cheer us on and for “blue and white-out” night. In honor of this being their last game […]

It was Senior Night at Leavitt Area High School and the crowd was rocking! All Leavitt fans in the gym were on their feet as the most popular senior basketball player in the school, Doug Nash, jogged onto the court. Nash, a 6 foot 6 inch center, is Leavitt’s leading scorer and the emotional and […]

The game is against Lewiston Middle School and Tripp Middle School. Everyone knew it was going to be a dog fight as the top two teams would play each other. Stepping into the warm air of the heated locker room soothed my cold skin from the rink. Looking around, I saw faces getting ready and […]

On January 20, Barack Obama took the Presidential oath and was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. To celebrate this day in history, Tripp Middle School students stopped what they were doing to watch his inauguration.In my seventh grade class, our teacher, Mrs. Carrie Fichter, brought in a “2009 […]

An art teacher at Lisbon High School, Elaine Cyr, brought to the attention of this Advocate reporter that one of her former students, Chris Metzger, teaches an art class at St. Paul’s School in Baltimore. Recently one of Metzger’s students, a seventh grader, Jazzmine Alston, was nationally recognized for her art work. Alston attended an […]