WOODSTOCK — Jessica Wilkey, principal, is up before 6 a.m. and at the Woodstock School by 7:15 to sign kids in for breakfast. When “before school” is over, all the students line up by grade, and she dismisses them and their teaches to their classrooms. Next, she leads her own line of nine first graders […]
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Greater Augusta Area Back to School Program hosts sixth annual backpack giveaway
The program, held Sunday at the Augusta Civic Center, featured haircuts, eye screenings, martial arts demonstrations and health food courtesy of Hannaford.
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Propane gas leak empties Mechanic Falls elementary school
School officials reported the leak was fixed before the end of the school day.
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Auburn students take WinterKids challenge
Kara Powers and Takoda Liberty, center, hold up a sign they and their third-grade classmates made for the WinterKids Winter Games opening ceremonies at Walton Elementary School in Auburn on Monday. Walton is one of two schools from Androscoggin County selected to compete against 30 others across Maine during the four-week challenge. Students from each […]
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Food for those in need
Fourth-grade students Addison-Rae Millett, left, Camden Plourde, Sophea Charpentier, Olivia Manson and Avelynn Bowie fill meal baskets Friday at Acadia Academy in Lewiston. The charter school students collected food for 50 “whole meals in a box” for Kaydenz Kitchen, a food pantry displaced by a fire Dec. 5. The pantry is named after Farwell Elementary […]
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Auburn pupils serve up Friendship Feast
Celeste Hotham gives her 4-year-old son, Ari, a kiss after he and his prekindergarten class sang for their families at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn on Thursday. Ari Hotham and his classmates invited family members to their Friendship Feast, where students served homemade soup, bread and butter. Jen Libby has made the Friendship Feast […]
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Martel school closed after sewer backs up; scarf pulled from toilet
LEWISTON — A scarf flushed down a toilet at Martel Elementary School appears to have contributed to a sewer backup that has closed the school until at least Monday, Superintendent Bill Webster said Thursday. Webster announced via social media Thursday that crews from Servpro will continue Friday cleaning up sewage that overflowed on the first […]
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Students attend first day of school in RSU 73
Doris Allen, left, who works in the Food Service Department for Regional School Unit 73, checks in fourth-grader Kailee Parker for breakfast on the first day of classes Wednesday at Spruce Mountain Elementary School in Jay. The district provides free breakfasts for students. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal) Linda Flagg walks with her son, third-grader Lyric […]
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Start of school at Saint Dominic Academy
Saint Dominic Academy third-graders work together Wednesday morning on a word search puzzle during the first day of school at the Lewiston elementary school. Clockwise from left are Maddy McGonagle, Zoey Cote, Mirabel Patrick and Abigail Martin. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) Madelynn Hinkley, front right, and other students from both kindergarten classes at the elementary campus […]
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Lewiston School Nutrition Program to serve free meals to students
LEWISTON — The Lewiston School Nutrition Program is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be offered at no charge to children attending school up to the age of 18. Meals are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination […]