Schools and Education
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2017
Hissing cockroaches and tarantulas in Augusta? Museum offers hands-on learning
The annual event at the Maine State Museum featured 24 presenters showing off live insects, pulling children away from computers, tablets and the internet.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2017
For Waterville’s Mollie Pleau, the sky’s not the limit, it’s the destination
The recent Smith College graduate is moving on to Maxwell Air Force Base with the aim of becoming an astronaut.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2017
More programs give special attention to first-generation university students
USM and other schools recognize the newcomers need help navigating campus life and study demands, which are unlike anything the first-in-the-family students have known.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2017
Racist, homophobic graffiti found in building on Bowdoin campus
The graffiti, which included a swastika, was believed to have been left on a white board between midnight and 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2017
Eight students treated after being stung by insects on trail near South Portland school
Two of the students at Memorial Middle School are transported to Maine Medical Center after being stung by insects nesting in the ground.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2017
Bowdoin College buys home once marketed as place where ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ was written
The sale of 28 College St. ends a battle with a family who made disputed claims that author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote parts of her famous novel in the house.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2017
Police have suspects in gun threat at Jay middle school
Regional School District 73 Superintendent Kenneth Healey says authorities concluded the threat was a hoax.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2017
Bowdoin receives $10 million donation for Coastal Studies Center
The gift, from a senior vice president at Apple, will go for new facilities at the center on Orr's Island.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2017
UMaine Augusta’s new drone course training aces for a growing industry
Drones are currently being used in real estate, precision agriculture, search and rescue, land management and construction.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2017
After 3 votes, Scarborough finally has a school budget
Fifty-three percent of voters approve a 2.9 percent spending increase in the 2017-18 school budget.
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