Monson News

The deadline was Wednesday for potential charter school operators to give the Maine Charter School Commission notice of their intent to submit full applications later this summer.

State education officials had anticipated letters from four groups -- proposing a statewide virtual charter school, a primary school in Cornville, a high school in Portland and a conversion of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Fairfield to a charter school -- but they weren't expecting one that came in for a school in the Piscataquis County ... (more)

A new question on the 1940 Census of the United States asked, "In what place did this person live on April 1, 1935?" In other words, where did he or she live five years before the 1940 Census was enumerated? Let's go back to Abbot, where my dad and his siblings were the youngest of four generations in the Bennett household near the Moosehorns on ... (more)

The campus of Southern Maine Community College was buzzing with anticipation Thursday as students and others prepared for President Barack Obama 's campaign fundraiser at the HUB Athletic Center this afternoon.