We think Covid-19 times are tough. But the real thing was (and still is in some places) bubonic plague, “The Black Death”. In the late 1340s it killed half the population of Europe. Boccaccio’s Decameron, set near Florence in the plague year 1348, collects the stories supposedly told by refugees sheltering out of town, to […]
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Senior Spotlight: Abigail Landry
How are students adjusting to school life during the coronavirus? How are Telstar seniors coping with a lost senior year?
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Farmington moves to single graduate tuition rate
FARMINGTON — Starting in fall 2020, a new initiative at the University of Maine at Farmington will allow all out-of-state students to earn a master’s degree or graduate certificate at UMF for in-state graduate tuition. The program is also available to any graduate of a Maine high school who earned an undergraduate degree at an out-of-state […]
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Understanding the college admissions landscape
BETHEL — The Gould Academy College Counseling team will host its annual information session for 10th and 11th graders and their families on Saturday, April 25, starting at 7 p.m. Gould welcomes the larger Bethel and SAD 44 community to participate as well. The event is virtual this year, and online registration is required. Links […]
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Reading (long?) after school
My American history class has been reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The students range in age from teens to retirement. Most had read Huckleberry Finn in school. They agree that it’s a different, perhaps a better read now. That’s not surprising. The Adventures is several books: a rollicking adventure story, with plenty of murder and […]
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Bob Harkins named athletic director at Gould
BETHEL — Gould Academy is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Harkins as athletic director for the 2020-2021 school year. He previously worked at Gould as athletic director in the late ’70s and again from 2011 to 2016 as Winter Term director. “Things were considerably different during my initial years at Gould,” Harkins says. “Today’s […]
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River Fund announces 2020 scholarship recipient
NEWRY — The River Fund Maine (TRFM) is pleased to announce the recipient of the first-ever River Fund Maine Scholarship, a landmark initiative that focuses on enabling local youth of the Mahoosuc region to achieve educational and career-oriented programs, and one that is deeply rooted in TRFM’s vision and mission. Luci Rothwell of Bryant Pond, […]
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Offline?
They used to call it correspondence schooling. Then it became distance education. Now it’s social distance education? Remote teaching and learning are helping to fill the massive hole in school and college work. Really good courses need time, money, professional designers, trained practitioners. (Even then such courses don’t work for everything or everybody.) Here and […]
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Gould Academy issues statement in response to Facebook post
BETHEL — Earlier this a week a post was made on the Team Bethel Facebook page about Gould Academy students being responsible for bringing COVID-19 back to Maine. The school released the following statement regarding the Facebook post: “In these challenging times, there has been growing interest in town in what’s happening at Gould. Although […]