ELLSWORTH — Tales and artwork inspired by the holiday trees on display at Woodlawn will appear on special pages in next week’s Ellsworth American. Students from the Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School visited the cunningly decorated Christmas trees at Woodlawn earlier this month and variously wrote stories evoked by the trees or drew images of the trees. …
ELLSWORTH − Two Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School students have been charged with terrorizing after allegedly making threatening comments about “violent acts at the school,” according to Ellsworth School Superintendent Dan Higgins. In a letter to parents on Wednesday, Dec. 5, Higgins said the alleged threats were overheard by a student. The student immediately reported the conversation to …
GOULDSBORO — Campbell “Buzz” Scott, founder and executive director of OceansWide, a nonprofit education foundation based in Newcastle, estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of lobster traps accumulating every year along the sea floor and along the coast of Maine. Now OceansWide, along with the students in the Pathways program at Sumner Memorial High …
SULLIVAN — A week before Thanksgiving, the students of Sumner Memorial High School fanned out from Ellsworth to Cherryfield as part of the school’s first annual community service day. “I kept hearing a common theme about wanting to get our students out into the community, to see what our students are made of,” said Sumner …
ELLSWORTH — The results are in. And the results of the Maine Educational Assessment for the 2017-18 school year are, well, a bit disappointing. “We didn’t see improvements to the level we wanted,” said Jim Boothby, superintendent for Regional School Unit 25 (RSU 25), which includes Bucksport Middle School and Bucksport High School. Bucksport fared …
SEDGWICK — Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane outlined the role of school resource officers at the Nov. 15 meeting of the Union 76 Board. “Ellsworth, Bucksport and MDI each have one: Officer Tim Bland. They wouldn’t give him up for anything,” Kane said. “He works at MDI and at Conners Emerson Elementary School (in Bar …
ELLSWORTH — Bucking the statewide trend, Republican Shawn Moody won the governor’s race in a mock election at Ellsworth High School, garnering 51 percent of the vote. Democrat Janet Mills, the actual gubernatorial victor in the Nov. 6 election, was favored by 32 percent of student voters. Independents Terry Hayes and Alan Caron received 10 …
ELLSWORTH — The University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) Ellsworth campus will host a “College Completion Day” on Thursday, Nov. 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The day is designed for adults with some college but no degree who want to talk with professional academic advisors about how to create a path to degree …
BUCKSPORT — Regional School Unit 25 (RSU 25) voters Tuesday approved a referendum to renovate the Bucksport Middle School gym floor. The vote was 2,391 yes to 1,626 no. RSU 25 includes the towns of Bucksport, Orland, Verona Island and Prospect. Superintendent Jim Boothby said the floor needs to be replaced due to issues with …
A boatbuilding class at George Stevens Academy will run for a second year thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Charles Wentz Carter Memorial Foundation.
