ATLANTA, Ga. — The National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS) has selected student Cansis Widger of Livermore Falls to become a member of the organization. The homeschooled student was recognized for superior academic achievement. The society recognizes top scholars who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, scholarship and community commitment. The announcement was made by NSHSS […]
Alex Lear
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Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
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Literacy Volunteers accepting poems for annual contest
FARMINGTON — The annual Literacy Volunteers Poetry Contest, free and for all ages, is open now until Wednesday, March 31, for all residents of Franklin and Somerset counties and the towns of Livermore and Livermore Falls. First-, second- and third-place winners will be selected in each of five categories: Age 0-10, 11-17, 18-25, 26 and […]
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Well done news for Saturday, Feb. 20
Student named candidate in Presidential Scholars Program NEW GLOUCESTER — Madison Soule, a graduating senior at Gray-New Gloucester High School, has been named one of more than 4,500 candidates in the 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The candidates were selected from nearly 3.6 million students expected to graduate from U.S. high schools in the year […]
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Mt. Abram High School announces honor students
SALEM TOWNSHIP — Mt. Abram High School has announced its second quarter honor roll for the 2020-21 academic year. High honors: 93 or above in all academic subjects Grade 12: Brian Thane Dustin, Joshua Ireland, Clara Logan, Trenton Reed, Brecken Sargent, Patrick Storer, Camryn Wahl. Grade 11: Sara Galusha, Emily Marden, Caleb Thibodeau, Cameron Walters, […]
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Kevin Landry: In search of ‘our moral compass’
Where has our moral compass gone? Leadership is lacking in politics, our schools, and in our corporate boardrooms. There’s no responsibility in our media that creates the narrative, and social media which amplifies it. As a result, our children are growing up confused and looking for direction anywhere they can find it. Isolation and mental […]
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New Beginnings gets grant to help with youth homeless services
LEWISTON — Avangrid Foundation has gifted $10,000 in grant funding to New Beginnings Inc., a Lewiston-based nonprofit serving homeless and at-risk youth. Avangrid Foundation funding will help New Beginnings continue to promote the safety, connections and growth that runaway and homeless youth need to thrive in 2021, especially in the face of challenges brought on […]
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Cal Thomas: Where’s the beef?
It could be a shout by meat lovers everywhere unless we tell our “masters” we have had enough.
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Lucien Wabanonik: My people were robbed, ignored by Hydro-Quebec, Quebec government
Decades ago the dams and infrastructure owned by Hydro-Quebec, a government-owned corporation, were built on the land of three First Nations tribes in Quebec without consent or compensation. To this day, there is no direct communication between HQ and the impacted communities as it continues to deny us our rights so others can profit off land that is rightfully ours.
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Transportation programs for older adults get funding
ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Charity Foundation Fund has awarded $82,500 to 11 nonprofit organizations that support community-based transportation programs, including changes in response to the pandemic and efforts to keep community members aged 60 and older socially connected during a time of physical distancing. Grant recipients include: SeniorsPlus, Lewiston, to help fund […]
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Rich Lowry: Advantage Trump in the GOP civil war – for now
The Trump-McConnell fight isn’t exactly over the soul of the Republican Party, but it is over whether there will be significant space in the party for figures other than Trump to have notable influence over its direction.