A person affiliated with the school had close contact to more than 50 students and staff members, the school department says.
Maine schools
Maine Voices: It’s up to community to make young people feel that they matter
The Maine Resilience Building Network is starting a conversation that will affect our state’s economic and public health.
Our View: Maine schools need flexibility to spend federal aid
Managing schools during a pandemic is hard enough without artificial deadlines on spending.
Insight: Religious rivalry in Maine history
In 1854, an Ellsworth mob tarred and feathered Catholic priest John Bapst, as part of a dispute over which translation of the Bible children should read in public schools.
School Notebook: Oct. 7
Video about Casco Bay HS featured at film festival this month A video about Casco Bay High School and the way it supports and empowers students, titled “Walking in Solidarity,” will be a featured short video in This Is Our Chance Film Festival. The free virtual film festival will run from Oct. 6-27 and focuses […]
School Notebook: Sept. 30
LGBTQ+ leaders build community and connection Committed to building youth connection and capacity, OUT Maine started an Emerging Leaders group of young adults last fall. OUT Maine, based in the Midcoast, works statewide to build a welcoming and affirming Maine for rural LGBTQ+ youth. To that end, the young adults volunteered to be junior counselors […]
Our View: COVID-19 not the only infectious disease
Mainers will have to pick up the pace if we are going to meet the deadlines in the new vaccine law that was upheld by voters in March.
Our View: Broadband access key to Maine’s economic recovery
As work gets more mobile, we will need to invest in infrastructure that will bring jobs here. This isn’t a problem that the market will solve.
School Notebook: Sept. 16
Region 10 gets new scholarship for culinary students Representatives from the American Culinary Federation, Maine Chapter, presented a check for $10,000 on Aug. 26 to Region 10 Technical High School’s Superintendent/Director Paul Perzanoski and culinary arts program instructor, Chef Tim Dean, to create a scholarship fund. The money will be used at the district’s discretion […]
It’s free! All Maine K-12 students are eligible for free meals through December
Chrissy Michaud, food service director for Regional School Unit 2, said not enough families take advantage of this program and central Maine districts encourage parents to sign up.