Education

School roof issues dominated the discussion during the May 4 meeting of the Lubec school board, with two members of the town select board and the full town budget committee in attendance, as well as many other townspeople.

What can each of person do to make their communities a better place? For Taliah Doughty, an eighth grader at Sipayik Elementary School, that is the primary question -- and the one that led her to being selected as one of 82 students from around the globe participating in the Smithsonian's...

A rash of faculty retirements and the resignation of a prominent professor at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) have prompted sharp criticism and worries among employees that the small but proud campus is losing ground in the state's higher education system.

At a public hearing in Whiting on April 4, citizens considered their future options for school governance. With the withdrawal of East Machias from SAD 77 scheduled for July 1, the remaining towns of Whiting, Cutler and Machiasport could choose to dissolve the SAD and form a school union.

It's not every day that residents of Washington County are thinking about sending experiments into space -- but that's exactly what Camren Mumme, an eighth grade student at Sipayik Elementary School, is doing.

While Maine will continue to meet its obligation to pay 55% of the cost of K-12 education under Governor Janet Mills' budget proposal for 2023-24, a milestone first achieved last year, many superintendents are still not happy with the state subsidy amounts for schools in their districts.