LISBON — Students enrolled in the Gartley Street Program, alternative education at Lisbon High School, accepted an invitation to attend a one day in-depth Junior Achievement Skills to Achieve Program. The event was held at Northeast Bank in Lewiston, a corporate partner of the program. Employees and community partners facilitated the all-day event. The objective […]

HOMER, Ill. (AP) — Does concrete float? For the hundreds of civil engineering students at the annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, the answer is “yes.” Teams representing 23 schools vied last week to design, build and race canoes made of concrete. Some vessels were as long as 22 feet and weighed as much as 180 […]

GLEN JEAN, W.VA. M ake room, guys. The girls are coming to the Boy Scouts of America’s national jamboree. Hundreds of female participants will be among the more than 40,000 Scouts and leaders attending the national gathering that occurs every four years. The jamboree runs July 15 to 24 at the Summit outdoor adventure site […]

BATH — Join the Bath Area Family YMCA for PaddlePalooza! Enjoy a 6-mile flat water paddle on the Androscoggin River from the Brunswick Bike Path to Bay Bridge boat launch on July 20 at 9 a.m. This “Paddle for Youth” is a fundraiser for the Y’s Youth Scholarship program. Participants are asked to raise a […]

Look up at the night sky and, if you are lucky, you will see hundreds of stars. Some of these stars might actually have planets circling around them, just like the planets in our own solar system. Scientists have already found over 800 planets circling around stars other than our Sun. These planets are known […]