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by Kristine A. Harger
Special to The Star-Herald

PRESQUE ISLE - The SAD 1 and SAD 32 boards of directors have approved submission of a reorganization plan to the state commissioner of education, but that doesn’t mean the boards approve of the plan.

“This is not a good law, (but) … we have responded as we have to respond,” said Charlie Anderson, SAD 1 business manager. Read more

What makes an Aroostook County festival? That is, what do you “need”?

My friend Ben and I discussed this in jest one summer, at the end of what we semi-lovingly called “festival season.” Read more

Two days from the end of the Fall 2007 semester, I tried something new in my junior/senior English class. I had been teaching Macbeth, trying to get my college-bound students to grasp the universal themes in the play. We’d been trudging along and they - and I - needed a break. It was Friday, and I needed to conduct an exam review on Monday. What could I do this day that was still academic? Read more

Clank, whirr! Clank, whirr! Read more

In 3 weeks, I’ll be welcoming a new batch of students into my life, and I am both thrilled and fearful. What will they be like? Will they be excited to learn? Sullen? Chronic skippers? Always tardy? Belligerant? Fearful?

I expect all of the above and then some.

Some of them will pass through the year with nary a blip on my radar. Others will touch my heart. I hope I will do my best by all of them, but I know some will slip through the cracks.

Enough clichés!

3 more weeks until the official end of summer. 3 more weeks until my life is changed again.

I can’t wait.

Kool-aid
Really
Is
Sticky when it dries.
Try
Ice water instead.
Now is the time to
Experiment.

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