JAY - Local Jay Veterans of Foreign Wars, Frank L. Mitchell Post 3335 announces the 2024 local winners of the “Patriot's Pen” Essay Competition and the selection of Teacher of the Year. Local students in the Jay/Livermore/Livermore Falls area submitted essays expressing their views on an annual patriotic theme. The 2024 theme was “How am
Spruce Mountain Middle School had 28 students enter the VFW Patriot's Pen essay contest through the efforts of teacher Denise Acritelli who was named teacher of the year by VFW.