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PARIS Senior year for most students is a combination of making plans and contemplating the start of adulthood. What schools or training to attend, where to work, where to live. Not to mention, maybe how to get through school when they can’t go to school.
OHCHS student Tiana James of South Paris launched her nursing career before the start of senior year.
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Tiana James of Paris made quick work of those routine challenges and has taken on much, much more during her senior year than most adults have to worry about.
Facing COVID-19
Last July, at the age of 17, James passed the exams and completed the requirements to become a certified nurse’s assistant, a step towards her eventual career as a nurse specializing in women’s health. The first thing she did was apply for a job at a local hospital to gain experience and earn a paycheck.
Obituary: Mary Ann Briggs
NORWAY - Mary Ann Briggs, 71, of Norway passed peacefully at home on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. She was born in .
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Mary Ann Briggs
NORWAY – Mary Ann Briggs, 71, of Norway passed peacefully at home on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. She was born in Haverhill, Mass., on July 22, 1949, the daughter of Charles Frederick and Elinor Koistinen Heikkinen Briggs.
In 1956 Mary moved to Maine after the death of her father. They lived on Paris Hill where she attended the Lincoln School, then moving to West Paris before spending her high school years in western Massachusetts, graduating from Northfield Mount Hermon school in 1967. Mary graduated from Northeastern University with a BA in Biology.
Schools eliminate some graduation requirements due to pandemic
Community service, sports, clubs and even credit standards are being waived this year.
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Edward Little High School students Tania Bachelder, left, Erin Anderson, Emily Kramarz and Emily Barnhart clear a trail corridor in May 2017 at Mount Apatite in Auburn. EL seniors will be required to complete fewer hours of community service in 2021 and 2022 because of the pandemic.
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Some local school districts are waiving certain graduation requirements such as community service this year because of the pandemic.
The Auburn School Committee voted unanimously last week to reduce the required number of community service hours from 24 to 16 for the Class of 2021 and to 20 for the Class of 2022.
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PARIS A ventilator malfunction in the B Wing of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School led to frozen pipes bursting over the weekend, flooding more than a dozen classrooms on the second and first floors, Superintendent Rick Colpitts told directors Monday night.
Part of OHCHS’ new HVAC system malfunctioned and froze over the weekend, leading to pipes bursting and damaging more than a dozen rooms in the school’s B Wing. This image showed the project in process last August.
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One room had new technology equipment stored.
“I’d like to thank the Paris, Norway and Oxford Fire Departments that spent as much as three hours (Sunday) afternoon helping to clean up, as well as our custodians who were there in force trying to clean things up,” he said. “There are 20 to 30 dehumidifiers and fans running now. Sheetrock will have to be removed a couple of feet up from the floor and mold will make the rooms uninhabitable for a perio
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University of New Hampshire announces dean’s list
DURHAM, N.H. The following area students have been named to the dean’s list at the University of New Hampshire for the fall 2020 semester:
Faye Taylor of Brownfield, honors; Kaia Staples of Brownfield, highest honors; Jasmine Taudvin of Gray, highest honors; Olivia Toole of Naples, high honors; Corilie Green of Pownal, highest honors; Michaela Morrill of Auburn, highest honors; Oliver Jacques of Auburn, honors; Rylee Saunders of Jay, high honors; Conrad Laroche Albert of Lewiston, honors.
Logan Lajoie of Mechanic Falls, highest honors; Laura Ireland of Wayne, honors; William Rolfe of West Paris, highest honors; Corinna Coulton of East Winthrop, highest honors; Kierra Rolston of Litchfield, high honors; Mark Greenwald of Readfield, honors; Hannah McLaughlin of Winthrop, high honors; Carolyn Frank of Chesterville, high honors; Emma Kearing of Carrabassett Valley, highest honors,