While alumni and families work to raise funds and organize to save the high school, the Diocese of Portland details and affirms its decision to close it after this year.
Kendra Caruso
Staff Writer
Kendra Caruso is a staff writer at the Sun Journal covering education and health. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in journalism in 2019 and started working for the Sun Journal in 2023.
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