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A lonely student’s letter and, 25 years later, an admiring teacher’s response
Try never.
“I would like to think that I responded to your letter at the time, but I suspect I did not,” Lynn Bonsey of Bucksport wrote a week ago to Rep. Genevieve McDonald, D-Stonington. “And I am very sorry for that.”
Bonsey is a schoolteacher, has been for 43 years. She’s spent the last 27 of those years teaching at the tiny Surry Elementary School in Hancock County.
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McDonald, now in her second term as a Maine legislator, attended that school for a short time in 1996. Her life was anything but tranquil in those days and, as she navigated her way through seventh grade, “Ms. Bonsey” became an anchor in the storm.
Cleanups scheduled from Surry to Stonington
DEER ISLE April is Earth Month, it’s officially spring and the weather has been cooperating nicely thus far, so it’s time to clean up the roadside.
To that end, Deer Isle and Stonington have organized a roadside cleanup starting Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, and running through Sunday, April 25.
Get bags at the Deer Isle town office, Stonington town office and the Island Heritage Trust.
“We are encouraging people to adopt a section of the road that we can put on a map to streamline the cleanup,” said Jim Fisher, Deer Isle town manager. For more information, call Fisher at 348-2324 or email [email protected] Information will also be posted at www.townofdeerisle.org/environment.
New Surry classroom is kid-approved
SURRY Meet the new pandemic classroom, a yurt at the Surry Elementary School.
Yurts are wholeheartedly kid-approved.
“It’s maybe the best idea I ever had,” said Principal Fred Cole. “It’s entirely in response to the COVID-19 physical distancing requirements we have in the schools. We used COVID relief fund money to purchase it.”
“I confess I only had the idea for a yurt because I worked at the Bay School,” Cole said. “I was wondering how we could get some classroom space quickly. It’s impossible to get a good modular, but a yurt might go up quick. We were lucky to get it. To get a yurt right now, they’re talking months out. This company just had a cancellation.”
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