Modern education requires complex facilities. MSAD 44 builds and renovates, repairs, and maintains. For many years Ron Deegan has looked after all that. He retires in June, reminding us that we need to train people in many areas: occupational health and safety, asbestos abatement, plant operations, budgeting… The big four in cost and importance are […]

UNH DURHAM, NH — William Rolfe of West Paris graduated from the University of New Hampshire over the weekend of May 20-22, 2022. He earned an MSW degree in Social Work. Students who received the honor Summa Cum Laude graduated with a GPA of 3.85-4.0: Students who received the honor of Magna Cum Laude graduated […]

In 1880 a family arrives in Lewiston or Biddeford. It’s been a long journey: by wagon to the local railhead, then several changes of train. Perhaps a relative or friend meets them at the station, has found lodgings for the family, even jobs. They are strangers, uprooted, speaking a foreign tongue. But not really alone: […]

SNHU MANCHESTER, NH — It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) congratulates the following students on being named to the Winter 2022 President’s List: Heather Brown of Waterford, Ariel Wick of Bethel and Madison Crowley of Rumford. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above […]

Not so long ago, American craftsmen and professionals (there’s no definitive difference) were taught by apprenticeship, on the job. Law and medical schools only developed in the 19th Century; engineering and some sciences in the Land Grant colleges after the Civil War. Big cities got technical high schools around the turn of the Century. In […]

REGION — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free individualized sessions, Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 and over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The sessions are being held on the following dates and times: Virtual: Monday, June 13 at 10 & 11 a.m. Tuesday, […]