The fundraiser will directly support Backroad Books – a mobile library Twice Sold Tales owner Amber Stone is building to bring a library and free children’s books to the rural areas of Franklin County with “book deserts.”
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Literacy Volunteers to host 20th annual Letters for Literacy Scrabble Fest
LEWISTON — Scrabble fans are invited to help raise money for Literacy Volunteers by playing their favorite board game. This is Scrabble with an unusual twist, as the competition features teams of four collaborating over the same letter tray to try and out-score another four-person team. Games will run from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, […]
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Rangeley literacy project goes around the world
RANGELEY — Regional School Unit 78 directors this week were told that Rangeley Lakes Regional School students have sent their journals to friends and strangers around the world, who will add entries and return them. It’s a project that middle school literacy teacher Robin George works on with sixth-graders. She compares the project to sending […]
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RSU 9 directors reverse special education restructuring
FARMINGTON — RSU 9 school directors reversed a decision made Sept. 9 and voted Tuesday to not pilot a restructuring of the district’s Special Education Department. The plan was to have a special education teacher in each of the district’s seven schools become a building-based coordinator for this school year. Instead, directors decided to go […]
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Teaching adults English exciting, challenging, instructors say
LEWISTON — Audience members at the Great Falls Forum got a lesson Friday in the challenges and satisfactions of teaching English to adults who speak other languages. With paper and pencils at each table of the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall, about three dozen attendees attempted to copy the swirls of a phrase written in […]
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E.Alcorn and D. Ray: Making a difference
We applaud the Sun Journal for highlighting the importance of literacy in the recent editorial, “Our literacy is society’s shared legacy” (Oct. 24). Here at the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, the hub for community-engaged work at Bates College, we connect interested faculty, staff and hundreds of Bates students to an incredible array of highly […]