Editor, In Pastor Grant Swank’s theological advice column that ran last week he referred to his daughter’s huge letdown in not securing a job she was promised. He writes how she asked him why God did that to her; that God is just plain mean and is not fair; the she doesn’t want God to […]

Editor, In Pastor Grant Swank’s theological advice column that ran last week he referred to his daughter’s huge letdown in not securing a job she was promised. He writes how she asked him why God did that to her; that God is just plain mean and is not fair; the she doesn’t want God to […]

Playing poker with our money It seems we are losing focus of what’s important in the discussion concerning school district consolidation. It’s devolved into a sort of poker game in which one side proposes its ideal number of school districts and the other tries to up the ante. This numbers game is purely political. It […]

I’ve never liked April. It started when I was a schoolchild and we had an April week off, called Mud Week. This was long before Quality Time had ever been heard of, so parents didn’t feel guilty if they didn’t take the entire family on some special vacation. Walt Disney World hadn’t been invented then, […]

I’ve never liked April. It started when I was a schoolchild and we had an April week off, called Mud Week. This was long before Quality Time had ever been heard of, so parents didn’t feel guilty if they didn’t take the entire family on some special vacation. Walt Disney World hadn’t been invented then, […]

Cindy Wilson’s fifth grade class at G.E. Jack School in Standish are raising brown trout for the Portland Water District in a large tank in their classroom. “Trout in the Classroom” is a program where teachers set up an aquarium and incubate trout eggs in their room. The teacher and students are responsible for daily […]

On March 8 and 9, Lake Region Vocational Center students attended the State SkillsUSA Conference in Bangor. Thirteen students competed in their respective training areas and five students came home with medals. Keith Rickett, Drafting and Design Program student and senior at Lake Region High School, won the Gold Medal in Technical Drafting for the […]

Eight students in Dan Bennett’s Spanish 5 class at Bonny Eagle High School are preparing to compete against students from approximately 50 high schools from around the world in a European geography contest. High school students from Canada, Spain, Nepal, Romania, Norway, Japan and many other countries, will be competing online to see who can […]

A $1.25 million bond chugged its way through the Maine Legislature this month, with intentions of bringing back the Mountain Division train line that once ran from Portland to Fryeburg. The bond originated from Gov. John Baldacci’s office as part of a $295 million bond package. It made a stop at the Transportation Committee last […]

A $1.25 million bond chugged its way through the Maine Legislature this month, with intentions of bringing back the Mountain Division train line that once ran from Portland to Fryeburg. The bond originated from Gov. John Baldacci’s office as part of a $295 million bond package. It made a stop at the Transportation Committee last […]