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Crouse named ACT Initiative Scholarship winner

The Southern Aroostook Vocational Educators (SAVE) Association at Region Two School of Applied Technology has announced the recipient of the ACT Initiative Scholarship for 2020.

RSU 39 holding district budget meeting on June 23

Eastern Aroostook RSU 39, a school district consisting of Caribou and Stockholm, will hold its district budget meeting at 6 p.m. on June 23.

Ashland District School sends off 2020 graduates with heartfelt ceremony

For Ashland District School’s Class of 2020, celebrating their graduation was equal parts compromise, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and an emotional farewell to the teachers and classmates that shaped their 14 years of pre-K to high school education.

Cougars enjoy one final hurrah at Katahdin Middle-High School

Traditionally, seniors at Katahdin Middle-High School perform one of the more touching ceremonies during commencement as seniors take red roses to their significant others.

ATLC awards Gwen Turner Scholarship

Abigail Michaud of Presque Isle, right, receives the Gwen Turner Scholarship from Carol Soucy, Turner’s eldest daughter.

Southern Aroostook celebrates graduation in social distancing fashion

The graduating seniors for Southern Aroostook Community School celebrated their completion of high school in a fashion unlike any other in the school’s history.

SAD 1 board of directors to meet, hold district budget session on June 17

The SAD 1 board of directors will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17, at the Presque Isle High School cafeteria.

Credit union awarded for UMPI contributions

Maine Campus Compact, a coalition of 18 member campuses who want to reinvigorate the civic mission of higher education, has named University Credit Union the 2020 Corporate Partner of the Year for contributions made to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, a member campus.

Presque Isle colleges developing safe-return plans for fall semester

With the situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic still uncertain, local colleges are developing plans for a hybrid of live and distance-learning education, all while knowing those plans could change in an instant.

NMCC names 2020 Student of the Year

In late April, the Maine Community College System recognized this year’s Student of the Year award recipients on a statewide Zoom call with an audience of educators, legislators and state business leaders.

Washburn holds in-person graduation ceremony

Many of their events had been canceled and their education quickly made remote because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, Washburn District High School’s graduation on Friday was a reasonably conventional one for its six graduating seniors.

Fort Fairfield honors 2020 graduates with weekend of celebrations

Though the COVID-19 pandemic kept Fort Fairfield High School’s Class of 2020 students from spending their final months of school together, they and their family and community members took full advantage of alternative celebrations leading up to and during their graduation ceremony.

RSU 29 names assistant principal

For the second time in two months, the RSU 29 board of directors have looked within for their next administrative leader.

Caribou High School holds socially distanced graduation ceremony

Cars packed the Caribou High School parking lot as 93 seniors in the Class of 2020 held a socially distanced, outdoor graduation ceremony in the school’s parking lot on Sunday.

Hodgdon seniors ready for next chapter

Thirty-one graduating seniors from Hodgdon Middle-High School gathered together for the first time in months on Friday to receive their diplomas.

Technical center names Student of the Year

The Presque Isle Regional Career and Technical Center has announced Izabelle Higgins as the CTE Student of the Year.

Presque Isle High seniors graduate in several small ceremonies

Presque Isle High School’s series of graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2020were truly of their time -- from the team of janitors who wiped down surfaces between sessions to a common theme from speakers that the class would emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than before.

Central Aroostook sends off seniors with outdoors, socially distant ceremony

The usual sound of families and friends clapping and cheering loudly for graduating seniors was replaced with enthusiastic car horns, as people watched from their vehicles in designated parking spaces while the Central Aroostook High School Class of 2020 graduated.

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