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The career and technical education department at Mount Desert Island High School has a new computer-controlled machine that quickly and precisely cuts metal for all sorts of uses.
The Tribal Coalition Fighting to Save Monarch Butterflies Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory path? Butterflies winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. Seventeen years ago, Jane Breckinridge came home. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with a great-grandmother who was Euchee, Breckinridge had left Oklahoma after high school to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she decided to stay after graduation. Some two decades later, ...
Shop tools donated to high school BAR HARBOR – Paul Gloger, a retired industrial engineer and lifelong hobby machinist who lives in Bar Harbor, has donated a number of tools and pieces of equipment to the career and technical education department at Mount Desert Island High School. He had owned some of the tools since childhood. “Now, my wife and I are downsizing, and the excitement for the hobby was waning,” he said. He said his wife, Mary, and their daughters encouraged him to donate the tools and equipment to the high school. The items included a toolchest with tools that ...
collaboration. Bryan Fry's heart was pounding as he stepped back from the snake enclosure and examined the bite marks on his hand. He had just been bitten by a death adder, one of Australia’s most venomous snakes. Its neurotoxin-laced bite could cause vomiting, paralysis and—as the name suggests—death. Fry, at the time a graduate student, had kept snakes for years. Oddly, the neurotoxins weren’t his biggest worry; the nearby hospital would have the antivenom he needed, and, although data is limited, people who receive treatment generally survive. Anaphylactic shock, on the other hand,...
New Otero County commissioners swore their oaths of office on Tuesday and incumbent officials renewed theirs. Sixteenth Judicial District Chief Judge Mark MacDonnell performed the swearing-in ceremonies for Otero and Bent county officials while District Judge Michael Schiferl swore in Crowley County officials. William Culver, who served as deputy district attorney under District Attorney James Bullock for approximately eight years, also swore his oath, succeeding Bullock as district attorney of the 16th Judicial District. Incumbent Commissioner Jim Baldwin, who ran for reelection unoppose...