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
Jonathan Carsley, a teacher from Buckfield Jr/Sr HIgh School was named the post's teacher of the year while Rhyann Holden, who is homeschooled was the winner of the Voice of Democracy contest.