By Megan Miller,Tripp Middle School When you look up at the night sky, do you ever wonder what’s really up there? Have you ever wondered what is beyond the moon? Do you ever stand watching the stars and suddenly feel insignificant? Have you ever felt the need to know what’s out there in space? Have […]

Meg H.T.,Elm Street School My flag has three triangles cut out of it. These represent the differences in our American cultures that separate us from each other. Two neighbors in America might hate each other because one likes the Yankees and the other one likes the Red Sox.The black in the flag with the uneven […]

By Andrea M. Adams,Monmouth Academy She’s you’re “angerYou see her beauty,She shines bright for you,She lights up your life.But you don’t know her secret:She’s everybody’s angel,She shines for everyone,But when she’s alone…Her light goes out.When she cries, nobody hears,Because she’s everybody’s angel.She lives for you, for her friends,Not for herself.She tries hard for her friends, […]

By Kacie Rioux and Erynne Landry,St. Peter and Sacred Heart School On Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6 a strange thing happened at St. Peter and Sacred Heart, Holy Cross, and St. Joseph’s school -students started acting groovy. You see, this is where the Tri-Catholic School musical took place. Students from St. Peter & […]

By Brandon Maher,Tripp Middle School Earth will kill itself one day. It will shrivel up and die due to misuse. We waste natural resources like we waste time in math class. There has to be an alternative to burning messy fuels. You can always use the sun, but if there is no sun out, you […]

By Meagan Maguire,Tripp Middle School Someone has just given you an important date you have to write down or you’re sure to forget. There’s no paper in sight, so what do you do? Write it on your hand, of course! Well, not if you are in my school, that’s for sure. Writing on yourself is […]

The ELHS Alpine Ski Team celebrated the end of the season with an award dinner at Korn-Haus-Keller in Lewiston. Everyone was given awards, including coaches and parent volunteers. The boys’ team won second place in the Maine State Championship, Class A, SL and GS combined. The girls did very well also, placing in the top […]

By Khristin Whiting,Edward Litttle High School Ryan PleauSophomoreThe weather getting nice.Renee GiassonJuniorYou always like what you can’t have, and in Maine there is no spring; we go straight from winter to summer.Lauren DouglassJuniorI love hearing the birds in the beginning of spring. It puts me in a happy, easy-going mood.Rosanna KnightJuniorI love waking up to […]

By Meagan C. Maguire,Tripp Middle School A few weeks ago on a Chippewa reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota a boy named Jeff killed his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend, seven others, and finally himself in a tragedy the likes of which had not been seen since Columbine. But there is more to these tragedies than meets […]

By Brittany Grovesand Alycia Hawley,Elm Street School The principal of Elm Street School in Mechanic Falls won the award through the whole state of Maine called, “Principal of the Year.” Her name is Mary Martin, a kind and caring woman who enjoys the work that she does. We collected data that included her work as […]