Like so many classes, activities and teams, MDI High School’s show choirs never had the opportunity to finish or present this year’s shows. Despite this, our show choirs created the thing that is most important to us and to our students. Don’t get us wrong; our shows this year had the promise to be some of the best …
Editor’s Note: Because the school was not able to hold an in-person awards ceremony this year, the Islander has agreed to print this year’s list of award recipients. Congratulations to all! National Merit Award – Peter Benson Albert H. Cunningham Award – Rachelle Swanson Amory Thorndike Scholarship – Dezirae Zaman Isable Bechtle Scholarship – Adam Nuesslein, Quincy Rozeff Coles Memorial Award – Yarrow Fabian Joyce …
Maine College Circle recognizes that the last few months have been full of challenges, but you all did such a great job on your 2020 MDI Future of Eastern Maine College Aspirations Scholarship applications that we just couldn’t choose a few of you. So, we decided to recognize all of you for your great effort and aspirations, and to award all …
By Winslow Jeffery Hello, Class of 2020! I would just like to start this off with a huge thank you to Mr. Haney, and to all of the staff and students and parents who have made this week truly special. Thank you to Tasha Higgins, your sandwiches are unmatched and deliciously nostalgic; and to Hatsana, whose kindness …
CUMBERLAND – The Maine State Golf Association is pleased to announce the two winners of the Frank Langlois Scholarship. This award gives a one-time grant of $5,000 to one male and one female student who have shown an active interest in golf in Maine. This year’s Frank Langlois Scholarship recipients are Gabrielle James of Bar Harbor and …
While some claim their high school years were the greatest of their life and others cringe at the mention of high school, I believe most of our experiences fall between these distinct lines. High school is not just a place, it’s a society, full of teenagers trying to find their way in life. I joined Mount Desert Island …
Dear students, parents, teachers, staff and members of our community: The 2019-2020 school year has been anything but “typical” for students and teachers around the world. In today’s global society, we watched how quickly and unsparingly a pathogen can spread throughout the population of our planet. The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious and ongoing impacts on the scope and way in which we …
BAR HARBOR — A group of Mount Desert Island High School students is asking community members to sign an online letter urging the school system to take concrete action to combat racism and promote racial equality. The letter lists 11 steps the schools should take. These include: Altering the curriculum “to cover the history of racism in this country and how …
BAR HARBOR — This year, Mount Desert Island High School waived the requirement that students complete at least 20 hours of community service to graduate. But despite that decision, the senior class had collectively logged 3,347 hours of community service. “That is 418 eight–hour days, which is a lot of help within our community and beyond,” said Wendy Littlefield, …
BAR HARBOR — There still seems to be some confusion in area towns about what, exactly, the proposed straw poll on planning for a consolidated middle school is asking voters to weigh in on. The question that Mount Desert Island Regional School System officials have asked town boards to include on their town meeting warrants is this: …
