We’re in the home stretch of another school year. Are our students getting what they need for their futures? Primary schooling is about enjoying learning, working and living with others, discovering talents and interests, acquiring basic academic skills. When students learn interesting things, they talk about them. Listen. Pandemic isolation taught us the importance of […]

UMaine: Presque Isle PRESQUE ISLE – Four hundred and forty-eight students at the University of Maine at Presque Isle have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester, according to Dr. Ray Rice, UMPI President and Provost. Because of a new academic policy, there are no longer distinctions between highest honors, high honors, […]

Frontiers are not lines on a map. They are zones where people encounter and adapt to new things: other people, different environments, new activities … Maine could be the frontier and also encompass trading, logging, farming, and maritime frontiers, even an urban frontier. Maine was New England’s Northeast frontier. As more southerly settlements filled up, […]

STATE — Maine students interested in careers in journalism are invited to apply for post-secondary scholarships from the Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF). The scholarship honors businessman and entrepreneur Guy P. Gannett, who launched his newspaper career in 1921 with the purchase of two newspapers he merged into […]

AREA — 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 at the following dates and times: Virtual: Monday, March 7 at 9 & 10 a.m. Tuesday, […]

Husson The following students have been named to the Fall 2021 President’s List at Husson University. A student who makes the President’s List must be enrolled as an undergraduate student, carry a full-time load of 12 credit hours, complete all attempted courses in the time allotted for the semester, and achieve a 3.80 to 4.0-semester […]

BETHEL — High Honors (Accumulated GPA of 3.3+) Class of 2022: Francisco Campra, Adeline Charette, Nicole Cox, Bailey Fraser, Macie Hallett, Sophie Hanscom, Julia Head, Eleanor Hoff, Ava Hopps, Andrew Leighton, Myles Lilly, Jacob Lyman, Tanner Martin, Natasha Mason, Brayden Stevens Class of 2023: Janna Botka, Shye Buck, Emily Cummings, Violet Howe, Ryan Nivus, Cassandra Sylvester Class […]