JAY — Florence (LaPointe) Cronkhite, 78, passed away Thursday, Sept. 27, at her home in Jay. She was born Oct. 28, 1939, the daughter of Roland and Dorothy (Willett) LaPointe. She was a graduate of Jay High School. On Oct. 10, 1958, she married Lee Cronkhite. After marriage, she was employed at International Paper Co. for […]
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Students learn about famous Mainers
JAY – Jay Elementary School fourth graders have their own unique way of learning about famous Maine people – by participating in a wax museum. They showed their families what they had learned by portraying well known Mainers in an activity Feb. 26. The students picked a Maine person at random, researched them, and made […]
Jay Elementary School 4th grade, SMART Robotics team up for project
As they learned about the value of measuring in everyday life, Spruce Mountain Technology Education teacher Dan Lemieux told them that the skill was only useful if the students practiced it. “Do you think I really need to know how to play video games?” he asked the class. “I don’t need to know how to […]
JES students rewarded for good behavior
JAY — Just before Magical Michael began his amazing show of making things move or disappear, he told the Jay Elementary School youngsters to give themselves a round of applause. “This is for your good behavior,” he told the children. Magical Michael, also known as Michael Smilek of Farmington, was there Friday afternoon as a […]