PARIS — What ocean is New Zealand in? “The Pacific.” And with that answer Paris Elementary School fifth-grade student George Floster became the winner of the school’s geography bee. George, the son of John and Lisa Floster, is a former basketball and baseball player, who likes to study on the Internet and read. George was recently […]

By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — An Oxford Hills Middle School aspiring writer has received recognition from the Scholastic Writing Awards. Chloe Hodgdon, an eighth-grade student from Paris, won a Silver Key Award and eight of her classmates won honorable mentions in the 2017 Scholastic Writing Awards. “This is the first time we’ve entered the […]

By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD — Teacher Ruth Wilson plans to fill a school bus with students, some of whom, may be this country’s future engineers. Oxford Elementary School was one of 16 schools selected to receive a bus grant to help defer transportation costs to get students to the Maine Engineering Expo at the University […]

By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — At the end of its first phase, one thing is clear. The Blue Ribbon Commission on Education was succinct. The work of the 15-member Blue Ribbon Commission, which began contentiously  in April 2016 with what was called a “secret” breakfast meeting, hosted by Gov. Paul LePage at the governor’s […]

By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the SAD 17 Board of Directors and regional state legislators that based on preliminary figures, the district could be $2.2 million over the recommended Essential Programs and Services budget in the fiscal 2018 budget. About $1.4 million of that is simply due to a shift in […]

PARIS — On a sunny day in October, 16-year-old Jasmine Roundeau found herself in full firefighting gear, high up on a ladder, smashing in a window with an axe as she simulated venting air during a fire on a second floor of a building. While there wasn’t any actual smoke or fire, there were smoke […]