ELLSWORTH — After scrambling to allocate $1.25 million in COVID Relief Funds granted to the school district and that had to be spent by the year’s end, the question of how to best use an additional $1.3 million in CRF money brought the School Board figuratively to its feet three hours into its Oct. 13 …
ELLSWORTH — Voters will have their choice when voting in local elections Nov. 3, as five candidates have stepped up to fill two open seats on the Ellsworth School Board. Current Chairwoman Brenda Thomas is not seeking re-election, although one-term incumbent Robert Hudson is running. While the impact of COVID-19 on education and education funding …
ELLSWORTH — The crosswalks at Ellsworth High School (EHS) and Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School (EEMS) got a lot more colorful this week, as members of the EHS Gender/Sexuality Diversity Alliance (GSDA) set about painting them rainbow colors in support of the LBGTQ+ community. The School Board approved the plan earlier this year. The group has also …
SULLIVAN — As the buses rolled up to the K-eighth grade Peninsula School early Tuesday morning, Roxanne Renwick had been looking forward to welcoming and shepherding her masked pupils into the spic-and-span building. In her homey classroom, the kindergarten teacher planned to read aloud Laurie Isop’s “How Do You Hug a Porcupine?” to teach young …
CASTINE — As of Wednesday morning, Maine Maritime Academy had reported four individuals (out of 1,400 tested) had tested positive for COVID-19 as part of the college’s fall entry testing. Three cases are active, according to the MMA website. On Monday, MMA President William Brennan issued a letter advising the school community that “two students …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth School Department has worked out preliminary groups for students starting school in less than two weeks, but transportation schedules and other details are still being ironed out, administrators reported at a workshop on Tuesday evening. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were 1,314 students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12, said School …
ELLSWORTH — Friends in Action will move its programs out of the Moore Community and Conference Center in the coming weeks to make space for a new “Remote Support Care” program for area schoolkids. The last day of classes for Friends in Action programs at the Moore Center will be Friday, Aug. 28. “We’re not …
SULLIVAN — The first day of school is often a leap of faith for parents as they watch their backpack-toting kids clamber aboard school buses. But the 2020-21 school year’s start will be even more so as students arrive at Sumner Memorial High School. They’ll be stepping into a welcoming, but highly controlled environment where …
OTIS — Students at the Beech Hill School in Otis will start the year on Sept. 8 in a hybrid-by-choice model similar to many other schools in the area after the Otis School Committee unanimously approved a plan on Monday evening. “This isn’t going to be the spring experience, emergency schooling. This needs to be …
ELLSWORTH — Students in Ellsworth schools will have a choice of fully remote instruction or returning to school in person part-time this fall, the Ellsworth School Board decided on Tuesday at a meeting that stretched for nearly five hours. Families will need to decide on their choice by Friday, Aug. 14, and staff planned to …
The University of Maine at Augusta has announced its 2020 spring semester dean’s list. The following area students were named to the list: Heather Halliday, Bar Harbor; Raven Radziewicz, Bar Harbor; Mckenzie Young, Bar Harbor; Laura Johnson, Birch Harbor; Laura Cass, Blue Hill; Jessica Kardos, Blue Hill; Stephanie McGuire, Blue Hill; Nolan Soucie, Bucksport; Cindy …
BUCKSPORT — There are a couple of certainties, so to speak, in the proposed plan to return to school Sept. 8 amid the COVID-19 pandemic: everyone will be wearing masks or face shields and there won’t be as many students in schools. “The reality is we cannot get 100 percent of our kids back in …
