Steam created Vacationland. Nineteenth century railroads networked to reach everywhere. Interstate and international lines brought tourists; local lines, eventually including those intended to carry timber or slate, took them to previously isolated regions. Steamships and ferries plied coastal waters and lakes. Hotels, with steam heat and steam laundries, housed and fed and entertained the tourists. […]

Phi Kappa Phi BATON ROUGE — The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Duchess Killam of Bethel, University of Southern Maine. Kristina Wilson of West Paris, University of Southern Maine. They are approximately 25,000 students, […]

Supplemental funding provided by the Maine Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills will allow Maine’s public universities to hold in-state tuition flat for the seventh time in a decade, and many Maine students will have their tuition and fees fully covered.

Born in New York City, I occasionally think about it. New York’s City College, local and inexpensive, recruited the children of recent immigrants. Their parents hoped to succeed, but were absolutely determined that their children would. Stuyvesant High School is rigorously, famously selective. The very best students attend. For decades, City College produced more future […]

The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free individualized sessions on “Essentials of College Planning,” for adults 19 and over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The virtual sessions are being held on the following dates and times: Monday, May 16 at 9 and 10 a.m. Tuesday, May […]

The sea is Maine’s permanent frontier zone, where Maine and Mainers encounter the other. Longfellow’s “Spanish sailors with bearded lips,” so different, were seen at Portland’s harbor. Maine and the sea remain closely linked, from recreational boaters to ships’ officers trained at Maine Maritime Academy to famous boat builders to windjammer cruises. Lincoln P. Paine’s […]

You’re not well off. Your family didn’t go to college. But perhaps you should. Thinking about college, preparing, getting in, and doing well can be harder if it’s unfamiliar territory. Upward Bound can help. At Telstar, talk to Chyanna Millett-Cordwell, if she’s not already talked with you. Being nominated for Upward Bound is a good […]

Maine’s industrial plants are called mills. Rightly: they have depended on the rivers’ fall for mill-power and hydroelectricity, the water for steam power, processing, and waste disposal. Maine’s mill towns are on the rivers that made Lewiston, Rumford, and Millinocket, and greatly enlarged early settlements at Westbrook, Biddeford, Brunswick… Sadly, the rivers reflect Maine’s industry: […]

AUBURN — The Center for Workforce and Professional Development at Central Maine Community College (CMCC) is partnering with area employers and service providers to recruit candidates interested in becoming qualified Land Surveyor Technicians. Information and links to register for the free program are available at https://cmconnect.cmcc.edu/ICS/Training/. The first of four free Land Surveyor Technician I Course […]