Education

The U.S. .Secretary of Education announced the awardees of the National Blue Ribbon Schools this week, and one Bangor School was on the list.

Find out which schools here in Maine were awarded the prestigious Blue Ribbon award by the US Department of Education.

Now this is fun and until today I never knew such a thing existed.  I did some stand up in my younger days and was pretty good, so I was told. Still I had no idea how to get out there and what to do next.  Now of course that was before the internet put everything at our fingertips...yes I am that old.

Yeah, we know that it's a tough gig getting into the more prestigious schools across the nation. Schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and MIT come to mind.  But what about here in Maine?

Members of the Class of 2015 at Colby College in Waterville will have a very prestigious person delivering the commencement address this year.

MDI High School and Orono High School made the top 10 of a newly released list of the best public high schools in Maine for 2015.

Here's a bunch of dumb asses passing school buses.  Don't be a dumb ass.

The Portland School Board has drafted a policy change for consideration and not everyone agrees with it.  Do you?

U.S. News reviewed 31,242 high schools across the country and 26 Maine schools made their rankings!

Back in the early 20th century a fellow by the name of Garret Schenck was the vice president of the International Paper Mill in Rumford, and he was  also instrumental in the beginning of the papers mills in both Millinocket and East Millinocket.