By Heidi ElvinEastgate Christian AcademyOn Thursday morning, October 11, our senior class was very fortunate to have attended the Lewiston/Auburn Chamber of commerce meeting at the Ramada Inn. The four gubernatorial candidates were invited to debate issues that our state is presently facing. John Baldacci, unable to attend, communicated by phone from Washington. The audience […]

Joining forces in a city of shattered order and ransacked history, U.S. troops and Iraqi police are setting up patrols to rein in waves of thievery in Baghdad. Marines rolled north to confront what could be Saddam Hussein’s last holdouts.A wild firefight outside a Baghdad hotel Saturday and the threat of suicide bombings kept American […]

Letters about literature contest The Maine Center for the Book of the Maine Humanities Council in Portland is the statewide sponsor of Letters About Literature, a national writing contest. Now in its third year in Maine, the contest is open to students from grades 4-12, and invites participants to write a short letter to an […]

By Darcy PabstPoland Spring AcademyFor it’s fourth year now, Poland Spring Academy has been more than successful in lending a helping hand to the aide of many students striving for a good education, but who have struggled in doing so, Poland Spring Academy is best known for reaching out to it’s students individually and finding […]

By Carli HutchisonMonmouth AcademyWhoppers, Big Macs, and chicken burgers probably sound appetizing to most. Not to me though. I don’t eat meat. You’re probably saying to yourself that you could never live without meat. That was me once too, an avid meat eater. Chicken was once my ultimate passion; now it’s soy- tofu, soymilk, soy […]

My parents are my role models because they work really hard to support our family. My parents love me and teach me all that they know. My parents are great people and I respect them very much.Shelly Loony is also my role model because she is a great hockey player. She works hard and went […]

Freshman year isn’t always the easiest year in high school. I asked a few 9th grade students from different towns about their views on their introduction to Poland Regional High School.Ryan Reid, from Minot said that he thinks that PRHS is a good high school. On the first day of school when all of the […]

By Kasey Smith • Auburn Middle SchoolTeam 7 is a multi grade team at the Auburn Middle School that focuses heavily on service learning. Service learning is when you pick an issue in your community that needs to be improved. The students on team 7 pick a variety of issues, just last year over twenty […]

Stereotyping. We have all done it, even if you don’t think you have. The dictionary says “a simplified and standardized conception or image of a person, group, etc.” You know what it really means today? Prep, goth, jock, punk. What’s one more? Homeless. That’s what Mrs. Morin’s Literature class learned about. In the Literature book […]

Mr. Ted Tibbetts is a new senior English teacher at Poland Regional High School. He lives in Poland and came from teaching at Portland High School. On October 13 Mr. Tibbets will take a temporary leave from PRHS so that he can spend seven weeks in a remote area of Russia.The U.S. state department is […]