BETHEL — About 40 people attended a meeting at Telstar High School on Thursday on the issue of bullying. The gathering included presentations by SAD 44 school administrators and Sarah Ricker, the student assistance coordinator for the Maine Department of Education. The meeting was prompted in part by concerns of the group Parents Against Bullying […]
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Bethel senior awarded Diane E. Curtis Medical Scholarship
BETHEL — The 2017 Diane E. Curtis Medical Scholarship has been awarded to Joshua J. Eliot of Bethel, a senior at Telstar High School. Eliot will be entering the University of Rochester in pursuit of a medical career in the fall. The Scholarship Committee found him to possess those qualities that the members were seeking […]
Telstar lists honor roll
BETHEL — Telstar High School has announced the honor roll for the first trimester of the 2016-17 school year. High honors Grade nine: Emily Fraser and Evan LeConey. Grade 10: Emily Harrington, Bethany Laird and Koley True. Grade 12: Mallory Corriveau, Josh Eliot, James Newkirk and Jeremiah Richardson. Central Maine Medical Center dual enrollment student: Kristi Hanscom. Honors Grade nine: Angela Cintron, Nyia […]
SAD 44 voters approve money playground, building improvements
BETHEL — School Administrative District 44 residents voted Tuesday night to approve spending $576,000 from capital reserves for roofing, playground and heating system improvements. The three articles were included in the 2016-17 budget warrant presented for a hearing and vote at Telstar Regional High School. Voters authorized spending up to $90,000 to repair the roof […]
Regan N. Kauf
1999 – 2015 PORTLAND — Regan N. Kauf, 16, of Bethel passed away Sunday, Oct. 18, at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a valiant battle with the complications of leukemia. Regan was born in Carbondale, Ill., on April 15, 1999, the daughter of Steven and Kristie (Dilley) Kauf and was in her junior year […]
Telstar High School has new dean of students
The SAD 44 School Board on Monday unanimously approved the nomination of Kristin Chambers Dacko as Telstar High School’s new dean of students. The position was previously held by Cheryl Lang, who was named last month as the new principal of THS. “We feel very, very fortunate to have such a great candidate to bring […]
Cheryl Lang named principal at Telstar High School
BETHEL — The School Administrative District 44 board of directors unanimously approved Superintendent David Murphy’s nomination of Cheryl Lang as the new principal of Telstar Regional High School. Lang, who was hired last year as the high school dean of students, replaces Ann Bell, who left the district after one year to become the assistant […]
50 seniors graduate from Telstar Regional High School
BETHEL – Fifty seniors graduated from Telstar Regional High School on Friday, surrounded by hundreds of family members, friends and faculty eagerly waiting to see them receive their diplomas. Retired sixth-grade teachers Wayne Howe and Lenny Hoy were selected by the Class of 2015 as guest speakers. Howe and Hoy retired when the Class of […]
Former Lewiston convicted felon charged with stealing laptop from Bethel student
MEXICO — A Mexico man who gained national notoriety in October 2007 by jumping off a third-story balcony in Lewiston only to be tackled by Sun Journal photographer Russ Dillingham is back behind bars in Paris. Norman Thompson, 42, of 9 Oxford St., was arrested Tuesday by Oxford County Lt. Chancey Libby on charges of […]
SAD 44 board takes no action on creation of cost-sharing committee
BETHEL — The SAD 44 board voted Monday to take no action on creating a committee to consider possible changes to the cost-sharing method among the five district towns, Superintendent David Murphy said Tuesday. Murphy said the Newry Withdrawal Subcommittee, which is made up of board members, made a motion for the board to take […]