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Kennebec Performing Arts Company announces scholarship winners
AUGUSTA – Kennebec Performing Arts Company (KPAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Student Music Scholarships for the 2023-2024 season. Isla Granholm is the daughter of Sven and Elise Granholm of Topsham. A home-schooled student, Isla will be starting her senior year this fall. She has been singing all her life and became a member of the KPAC chorus in September, 2023. She credits directors Chuck Milazzo and Jason Giacomazzo, accompanist Christina Misner Rao, and the alto section for their guidance and encouragement.
Wiscasset names WES’s next principal
Wiscasset Elementary School’s next principal, Stacy Clements, always loved school and learning. So when picking a career, she chose teaching, she said June 13 in a phone interview from Assumption Catholic School, Fairfield, Connecticut, where she is principal now. With husband Mark Clements a football coach, they moved around...
10 Edgecomb Eddy sixth graders graduate
Ten Edgecomb Eddy School sixth graders are now graduates. On June 14, Shannon Adkins, Peytyn Alexander, Mayson Blake, Ariel Doan, Benjamin Hodgdon, Skyler Hyson, Micah Perry, Eben Robinson, Curtis Spofford and Jimiah Stetson received diplomas during a ceremony held in the school gymnasium. Principal Tom Landberg welcomed the community to...
Wiscasset future of the schools committee meets Monday, June 17
The Wiscasset future of the schools ad hoc committee will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, June 17 in the town office meeting room and at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81481191791?pwd=c1JUK3FuTXRHZmNZcGE2amI1UTNBdz09. The agenda, out Thursday, June 13, calls for appointing a secretary; reviewing the committee’s first report; looking at how the committee will update and...
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