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English: equinoxFrench:  équinoxeSpanish: equinoccioGerman:  TagundnachtgleicheItalian: equinozioArabic:  alaietidal الاعتدالChinese: Chūnfēn 春分

Word of the Week

Equinox(E-qui-nox. Sort of rhymes with see the fox.)When day and night are the same length. It happens two days each year, one in March and the other in September.On the fall equinox, Jenny and Albert went on a nature walk and helped their family build a campfire.

Current Events/Fall Equinox

There are two days each year when day and night are the same length. One is in March and the other in September. These days are called equinoxes. (E-qui-nox-es. Sort of rhymes with see the foxes.)Equinoxes are the same in the upper half of the earth and the lower half (called hemispheres.) So days when […]

Mt. Blue runners take first in home meet

FARMINGTON — The Mt. Blue High School boys and girls cross country teams each took first place in a four team meet at home on Friday. In the boys race, Mt. Blue’s Cyrus Evans, Henri McCourt, and Luke Doscinski took the first three places to key the victory. Spruce Mountain’s Abram Geissinger and Cony’s Sam […]

What I’ve Learned

I was an adult before I learned an important thing about novels: they don’t have to be read straight through from beginning to end without stopping. Up until my mid-20s, that’s how I read. That’s how I thought everyone read.I’m not a fast reader, so a 60,000 word novel would take me close to five […]

Beagles arrive at RPC

Maine shelters to welcome 100 beagles as part of national placement efforts of approximately 4,000 beagles removed from the Envigo facility in Cumberland, Virginia

Word of the Week

Literacy(LIT-er-uh-see)The ability to read and writeWhen a teacher came to LiLa’s village, the literacy there improved.Most of the villagers became literate.

International Literacy Day

Literacy is the ability to read and write. Not everyone can do that. In fact, more than 700 million people in the world can’t read and write. That’s more people than live in Canada, the United States, and Mexico combined!International Literacy Day, which is on September 8 each year, is a day for people who […]

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