Education

The MSAD 19 board of directors, during their September 20 meeting, discussed alterations to Lubec school bus schedules to address the issue of high school students returning home after 4 p.m. The issue was brought up by AOS 77 Superintendent Kenneth Johnson as an additional agenda item not listed

Some Grand Manan students had a difficult start to the school year with a reduction of school buses from four to three. Parents and students have reported confusion with schedules and overcrowding on buses, and the Anglophone South School District is working to address the problem.

Progress is continuing with the plans for a new school building at Sipayik, with the tearing down of the Passamaquoddy tribal government office building that will be the site for the new school. The building was torn down by Thomas DiCenzo Inc.

What started out as a competition between teams of students to build the most powerful computer evolved into an exploration at the frontier of molecular science. The students of Jon Bragdon's computer science class at St.

Seven out of 12 families in Trescott, Cathance and Marion who appealed the Education in the Unorganized Territory (EUT) decision to move their children from their elementary schools of choice to the EUT school in Edmunds have had their requests denied.

The Eastport School Committee quickly dispatched with Christopher Columbus, tossing him overboard in short order, but wrestled for nearly an hour with Santa Claus, who was stoutly defended by three ladies of the Christian faith, before the right jolly old elf finally won.