JAY — The AmeriCorps program at Spruce Mountain High School has several summer events open to the community. The Healthy Community Coalition will offer a cooking class at Spruce Mountain Middle School in Room 180. This course will provide instruction on how to shop for and cook healthy meals. Classes will be from 4 to 6 […]
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Spruce Mountain High School bowling team requests official status
LIVERMORE FALLS — At its meeting Thursday night, the RSU 73 board approved an educational technician position to assist in the Crossroads program, learned that board Chairman Denise Rodzen has been appointed to the state school board from the local region and heard a request to make bowling an official high school sport. Superintendent Kenneth […]
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Community promotes literacy at LES
LIVERMORE – Livermore Elementary students learned on Feb. 27 that reading can be a way to meet cool people. Guests from all walks of life in RSU 73 schools and the surrounding community came in to read books to the children. It was part of the nationwide Read Across America Day. The National Education Association […]
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Livermore Elementrary School class gets lesson in accepting differences
LIVERMORE – If the choice is being kind or being right, which one would you choose? That was the question posed by Spruce Mountain High School freshman Camryn Berry to Janet Ventrella’s fifth grade class at Livermore Elementary School on Feb. 27. Berry, who suffers from fibrous dysplasia, gave a presentation to the students about […]
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Livermore Elementary School 5th grade teacher is Maine History Teacher of the Year
LIVERMORE — Janet Ventrella is not one to seek out the limelight, nor is she boastful about her accomplishments as a schoolteacher. She was honored earlier this year with the Maine History Teacher of the Year Award from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Yet, Ventrella, who teaches fifth grade at Livermore Elementary School, […]
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Ornament Night promotes families, literacy at Livermore school
Gill, the school’s music teacher, and students Katelynn Ladd and Elise Spencer, dressed as reindeer, sang “Jingle Bells,” “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and many other holiday songs as parents, grandparents, elementary students and younger siblings visited classrooms where teachers read Christmas stories and the families made Christmas tree ornaments. “We’ve done […]