The Lewiston High School Blue Devils learned a painful lesson in honesty last week.Several days after Lewiston bested Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School 32-7, the school’s athletic director, Paul Amnott, discovered that one of the players on the Lewiston roster was academically ineligible to play and should not have been on the field during that […]
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Frightful election negativity
Ready for a good scare? The negative political advertising is causing some voters to think about staying home on Election Day. They’re so disgusted with the amount of mud that has been thrown, they’d just as soon leave ballots blank.If negative political advertising keeps even one person home next Tuesday, it has damaged the electoral […]
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Tips for a happy, hellish Halloween
Gather “round, boys and girls, because today Uncle Dave is going to tell you how to have some real “old-fashioned” Halloween fun!Start by gathering these materials: A commercial air compressor, an acetylene torch, a marine flare gun and 200 pounds of boiled pig brains. Next, select a neighbor who…Whoops! Scratch that, boys and girls! Uncle […]
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My role models
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 […]
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Young writers wanted for national
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 […]
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“Horses . . . at school ?”
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 […]
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Freshmen impressions
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 […]
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Tripp Middle School boy’s soccerÿ
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 […]
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Team 7 service learning
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 […]
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Being a teen vegetarian
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 […]