BETHEL — Telstar sports are good options if you are looking for fun, new friends, and the ability to improve on certain skills. There are many different options to appeal to each kind of person. This fall the district had a third of all students participate in some type of sport. Football is rough, soccer […]

Winter vacation, school holidays … time for a novel. Why not try a blockbuster? War and Peace springs naturally to mind: 1,300 pages; romance; great events. Indeed, war and peace: cavalry charges, heroic retreats. And the home front, a Russia whose aristocracy faces the traditional problems of marriages, money, and serfs, and the new questions […]

USA — The U.S. Postal Service is working with WeAreTeachers to introduce The USPS Pen Pal Project, a free educational program for students in grades three to five, this 2021-2022 school year. The USPS Pen Pal Project will provide 25,000 classrooms across the country the opportunity to partner with matched classes to write 1 million […]

We previous generations often find our knowledge falling behind. Especially in science, where new ideas and information reach students every day. They have a new understanding of how the world works. My science, however, is well past its use-by date. So I sought advice from the distinguished scientists in the Mineral and Gem Museum‘s basement. […]

If students remember events, they’re contemporary history. With luck, some of those memories will be fairly long. Older, experienced students are a gift. Fifty-two years ago; studying unionization, a former factory shop steward leavened the lump of eighteen-year-olds like me. Today at UMA, students with children, even grandchildren, provide new perspectives on past lives. Veterans […]

MAINE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer four in-person workshops about winter care of livestock from noon–2 p.m. every other Tuesday starting Dec. 7 at the UMaine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Drive, Falmouth. Remaining classes will be Dec. 21, Jan. 4, and Jan. 18. The series begins with winter care of small […]

REGION — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting FREE individualized sessions, Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 & over who are looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The virtual sessions are being held at the following dates and times: Monday, December 6 at 9 & 10 a.m. Wednesday, […]

If I remember events, they’re modern history. Thus the 1960s, broadly defined. The class concentrates on a few issues by reading beyond the textbook. The Right Stuff (also available as a movie) puts the Space Race in the context of an increasingly middle-class White America engaged in the Cold War. Tom Wolfe discerns the peculiarities […]

If you or your children are in school, you’ve probably thought about the cost of college. Indeed, Ron Lieber says parents should think, and if possible save, even earlier. The Price You Pay for College. Harper Collins, 2021, will help you think. It’s really two books. What higher education costs and how to pay for […]