Education

In the end, a decision on where to locate a new career and technical education (CTE) school was not determined by a coin toss, as was suggested at the end of a contentious meeting.

Additional state funding and decreases in the required local share for K-12 education are among the positive developments this year for local school districts, as preliminary state subsidy amounts were released on February 15 by the Department of Education.

Students at the elementary schools in Milbridge, Jonesport and now Charlotte are thriving under the efforts of an educational pilot project that is creating a new way of addressing barriers to learning, particularly stressors that happen outside of the school.

Lubec should not reopen its high school. That is the conclusion reached by the ad-hoc Committee to Investigate the Feasibility of Reopening Lubec High School after study and consideration for more than one year.

Eight years ago Vanessa Royer left during her first semester as a student at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) because of personal issues. At the time she could not have foreseen herself back at UMM successfully starting on her sophomore year in the bachelor of science nursing degree program.

An expanded nursing education initiative is just one of the program areas that Andy Egan, the new head of campus and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Maine at Machias, is readying to implement.