For the past few weeks Team 72 at Lewiston Middle School has been studying G.R.E.A.T.G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) is a program by the Lewiston Police Department. Officer Timothy Darnell, our resource officer, has been instructing us for G.R.E.A.T.We have been learning and discussing how “gangs” affect our lives. We’ve also learned about how […]

By Stephanie LauzePoland RegionalHigh SchoolOn Sat. Aug. 16, my friends and I all piled into a car and headed for Portland. We headed to one of the biggest and best concerts we probably would ever attend. Not knowing what to expect we got into the line to enter the concert. It extended at least a […]

By Mary Beth MoyerSt. Joseph’s School My classmates and I, along with our chaperones – Miss Patricia Milton and Mr. Errol Parker, – recently returned from Nature’s Classroom in Freedom, NH. It has been the traditional eighth-grade class trip for many years and is always one of the highlights of students’ last year at St. […]

It all started in Italy. At least, that’s what I’m told, that a saint called Lucia existed. How she got to be known in Sweden is unsure, but she came anyway and is now the symbol of one of our most important holidays. Since there is no light (as I have mentioned numerous times, but […]

A new club has been started at Monmouth Academy this year. It is called the Foreign Food and Film Club. As a proud member of this new club, I have been to two foreign food and film nights. The club meets about once a month in the chorus room at our school on Friday nights […]

On Nov. 2, I had the privilege of riding in my first ever horse “schooling” show. A schooling show is a simpler type of horse show. It’s basically like riding at someone else’s barn. One doesn’t have to dress up and it costs a lot less.In this case, the show was at Sioneledge Farm in […]

The Monmouth middle school civil rights team came into being in Sept. 2002 when 10 of the original 12 members and their advisors went to training at the Augusta Civic Center. The Maine attorney general’s office, (Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Division) implemented it. The team returned for the spring training, and was very busy […]

Since the first year of Poland Regional High School’s existence Ms. Lori Gunn has had the idea of forming a writing center that will help students improve their writing skills. Finally, with the help of some motivated students, the time has come to embark on this idea.Ms. Gunn developed this idea based on her previous […]

What’s the most valuable thing to you? Well, that’s what I was wondering. So I decided to ask some of my fellow students.First I asked Amy Farmer and she thought friendships, because she wouldn’t know what to do or where she would be without them.Then I asked Jamie Hodgkin and she thought friends, family, and […]

Porcelain-white flour blanketed the counter. Little fingers made their marks in the cookie dough like ski tracks in the snow. I sat on the counter, adorned with a chef’s hat that I had made in preschool the week before. I was assisting my mother in making sugar cookies, a crucial, annual Christmas tradition when I […]