There were hugs, handshakes, and smiles as parents, siblings, and girlfriends joined Maine Maritime Academy students aboard the training ship State of Maine in Searsport on July 30.

I began traveling the roads on the western side I hadn’t been down just to see if I could catch the sunset from a new angle.

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“Our goal is to give kids an education that will literally change their lives,” said Peter Harris, president of the Herring Gut Learning Center's board of directors.

Think back to 2008: summer Olympics in Beijing; signs of the Great Recession start to show; Barack Obama is elected president; Celtics beat the Lakers in the NBA finals.

The landscape suddenly shifted from jagged edges to pillowy slopes of granite.

Offering reliable childcare and preschool programs helps lure and retain adults who want to live and work on the island.

We watched women in hijabs meeting their children at the school bus, and our students absorbed the direct impact…

Educational Passages provides schools, for a cost, with 5-foot-long plexiglass boats that are equipped with GPS tracking devices. The boats are launched along the East Coast and most of the time, they are carried by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift currents to Europe.