Archive for ‘School’

  • Player of the Week: Christine Morin

    Christine Morin has the kind of character to build a team around, according to Lake Region varsity cross-country coach Dan Dors said. “Christine won’t win many races but through her dedication and commitment to cross-country she has won the respect of the coaches and her teammates,” said Coach Dors of the first year runner. “Christine […]

  • Player of the Week: Magnus Holm

    Magnus Holm has given the Lake Region varsity boys’ soccer team a definite shot in the arm this fall. “Magnus has been a great addition to the team. He is always upbeat and positive. As an AFS student, Magnus has brought some new blood to the team and has blended right in,” Laker Coach Mike […]

  • Player of the Week: Devin Langadas

    Devin Langadas brings a little attitude to the Lake Region varsity girls’ soccer team’s defense — and it’s all good. “Devin has worked very hard during preseason and the first two weeks of the regular season to earn her varsity position as a fullback. She brings a positive attitude to the team and works extremely […]

  • SAD 61: McFarland named Adult & Community Education director

    Stephen McFarland has been named the new director of Adult and Community Education for SAD 61. He replaces Carrie Castonguay who resigned last month. “I am looking forward to this opportunity,” he told members of the SAD 61 School Board Monday night at Crooked River Adult and Community Education in Casco. “I am excited to […]

  • Kids not only ones eager, nervous about the first day of school

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Devin Fitzgerald has always known that she wanted to be a teacher. “When I was younger, when my sister and I got home, we played school. I’d give her worksheets to do and I would help her if she needed it,” Devin recalled. In six days, Devin will realize […]

  • Q&A with SAD 61 Superintendent Alan Smith

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Alan Smith is excited about “being home” in southern Maine and is eager to tackle new challenges that await him as SAD 61 Superintendent of Schools. With the start of the new SAD 61 school year just five days away, The News sat down Tuesday morning with Superintendent Smith […]

  • Fryeburg Academy announces new Hall of Excellence inductees

    Fryeburg Academy is proud to introduce seven new members who will be inducted into the 2014 Hall of Excellence at a ceremony during Homecoming weekend on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The public is welcome to attend this free admission presentation. The six alumni and one […]

  • Williams receives KLWA’s Joan Irish Award

    LOVELL — Anna Williams of Lovell is the 2014 recipient of the Kezar Lake Watershed Association’s Joan Irish Award. Given annually since 2008 in memory of the Association’s longtime president, the award recognizes a student residing in the Kezar Lake watershed who has shown a serious interest in the environment and who intends to pursue […]

  • SAD 61 School Board rejects day care proposal

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer When Carrie Castonguay arrived as the new director of Adult Education at SAD 61, a day care program for enrolled students was in the “red.” So, the day care was shut down. The need for childcare, however, never went away, Castonguay discovered. So, she went back to the drawing […]

  • Parent appeals student placement, to no avail

    By Emily Gillette Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — Not all parents were pleased with the SAD 72 school board’s decision to move seven incoming Brownfield Denmark Elementary School (BDES) kindergarten children to Snow School in an attempt to regulate class size for the 2014/15 school year. One parent, Bobbi Perreault, asked to appeal their decision to […]