SUSAN JOHNS Wed, 04/21/2021 - 8:45am
Wiscasset officials and other attendees take part in selectmen’s April 20 Zoom meeting. Zoom screenshot
Over Zoom and Youtube Tuesday night, April 20, Wiscasset selectmen listened to, praised and talked about acting soon on teenagers’ request the town help address climate change.
“Wiscasset is an amazing place. It’s beautiful. But we need to keep it that way,” Wiscasset Middle High School freshman Grace Greene said. The new WMHS group, Sheepscot Climate Action Club, was Greene’s idea, teacher Ralph Keyes said. Keyes, fellow teachers Brad Lopes and Seth Platikus, and 2020 WMHS graduate Maria West advise the club. Greene’s fellow members are freshmen Julia Truesdell, Emily Gilliam, Nevaeh Campbell and Linnea Andersson, homeschool student Bri Wright, senior Ty DeLong and junior Brianna Colson.
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Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood has issued the following letter addressed to staff, students and families:
“This letter is to inform you that another student has tested positive for COVID-19 at Wiscasset Middle High School. Contact tracing is currently underway and you will be notified if your child is a close contact. At this time, due to the number of staff and students impacted by close contact including the bus transportation, Wiscasset School Department (WMHS &WES) will go red for the remainder of this week. Remote learning will begin on Tuesday, April 13 for both schools and there will be no after school activities this week, beginning today, Monday, April 12. In person learning will resume after April vacation on Monday, April 26.
SARAH WHITFIELD, News Contributor
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood addresses the school committee. Zoom screenshot
Wiscasset Middle High School is ranked 13
th in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report high school rankings for Maine, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced at the March 9 school committee meeting. Wood said she looked through the rankings for the past three years and that “13
th is good, but it would be great to be 12
th, 11
th, or 10
th and one of the goals I want to focus on is how we can move up higher.”
The rankings are based on factors including math and reading performance and proficiency, college-level curriculum and graduation rate. Morse High School in Bath ranked 17
Fri, 02/26/2021 - 8:45am
Liz Hemdal, who teaches health to all students grades 7-12, cuts the ribbon to her new classroom. Deb Pooler photo
WMHS freshman Brayden Laliberte was the first student to enter the new classroom. Deb Pooler photo
Part of a locker room at WMHS is now a classroom. Deb Pooler photo
Student Ty Delong, dressed in the WMHS mascot costume, chats with health teacher Liz Hemdal in the new classroom. Deb Pooler photo
It was a locker room. Now students can learn in it, and the town is closer to a full in-person return. Wiscasset Middle High School cut the ribbon on the new health classroom Monday, Feb. 23.
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