LEWISTON — With 23 Fulbright Student award recipients this year, Bates College has produced more than any other liberal arts college. And despite Bates’ relative smallness, about 1,800 students, only six universities across America wound up with more. The international educational exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is among the most prominent […]
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Scarborough in uproar following high school principal's 'forced' resignation
Scarborough High School Principal David Creech submitted his resignation suddenly and without giving a public reason on Friday amid an intensifying community dispute over new school start times that are set to take effect in the fall. Creech’s action followed a heated Board of Education meeting on Thursday, when the Scarborough Education Association issued a […]
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Topsham elementary school evacuated after bomb threat; police boost security at Mt. Ararat High School
An elementary school in Topsham was evacuated Friday morning following a bomb threat. Students at Woodside Elementary School were evacuated and taken to the Orion Performing Arts Center to be picked up by their parents, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office. Topsham police were stationed outside Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham earlier in […]
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Never enough security to guarantee safety in Maine schools
In the state’s newest high school, now going up in Sanford, the hallways don’t offer any place for a shooter to hide. Classroom doors lock from the inside. And when the school opens later this year, 100 cameras mounted throughout the building can be monitored remotely by police two miles away. That’s how schools are […]
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Lewiston-Auburn superintendents oppose bill to allow guns on school property
Top school officials in Lewiston and Auburn say they oppose a proposed law that would allow firearms on school property in Maine. A bill to permit unloaded and locked guns on school grounds is before the Legislature’s education committee. Superintendents Bill Webster of Lewiston and Katherine Grondin of Auburn spoke against the bill at a […]
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Geraldine Margaret Ricker
LEWISTON — Geraldine (Gerry) M. Ricker, 87, died unexpectedly Jan. 30 at St. Mary’s Hospital. Gerry was born Oct. 30, 1930, in Lewiston, the youngest daughter of Bernard and Margaret Murphy Ricker. Gerry graduated from Lewiston High School in 1948 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in education from St. Joseph’s College in 1953 […]
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Bonny Eagle H.S. students sent home after heavy smoke forces evacuation
Firefighters from multiple departments were called to Bonny Eagle High School in Standish Friday morning after heavy smoke was reported in the building. The Standish Fire Department was called to the school on Saco Road around 9:30 a.m. for reported smoke on two floors of the building. Mutual aid was requested from other local departments, […]
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Bill would restore money slashed from Maine school-based health clinics
School-based health clinics that were forced to slash programs after having their funding unexpectedly cut in last year’s budget deal may get a one-time infusion of unspent state funds to restore services that are often a critical source of health care for some of the state’s lower-income students and families. The Legislature’s Health and Human […]
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Students are failing
The Sun Journal editorial of Jan. 21 noted that too many Mountain Valley students are struggling; only 17 percent passed math and only 22 percent passed language skills. Is “struggling” the appropriate word? If the Mountain Valley students were swimming, the majority of them would be drowning. Yes, the majority of these students are failing. […]
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'No hard and fast rule' for educators caught drinking and driving
AUBURN — School districts differ on how they handle educators who are convicted of serious cases of drunken driving. There are no statewide regulations or even best practices, superintendents in Lewiston and Auburn said. One Edward Little High School teacher and coach, who the Sun Journal is not naming, has three drunken-driving convictions, according to […]