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Nokomis Regional High School
Nokomis Regional High is a secondary school located in Newport, Maine, United States. Nokomis is a public school which accepts students from Newport, Corinna, Palmyra, Hartland, St. Albans, Plymouth, Etna and Dixmont The school principal is Mary Nadeau. The school mascot is the Warrior, and the sports team name is "Nokomis Warriors". Notable alumni * Dean Cray, State Legislator * Cooper Flagg, basketball player (transferred out after freshman year) * Aaron Frey Aaron M. Frey (born c. 1978) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 58th Maine Attorney General, Attorney General of Maine since 2019. He formerly served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic representative in the Maine Ho ..., Maine Attorney General * Josh Tardy, State Legislator References External links * Public high schools in Maine Schools in Penobscot County, Maine Educational institutions established in 1968 1968 establishments in Maine {{Maine-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Public High School
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-funded schools are global with each country showcasing distinct structures and curricula. Government-funded education spans from primary to secondary levels, covering ages 4 to 18. Alternatives to this system include homeschooling, Private school, private schools, Charter school, charter schools, and other educational options. By region and country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Etna, Maine
Etna is a New England town, town in Penobscot County, Maine, Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,226 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Etna is named for the famed Mount Etna in Italy. It was originally known as "Crosbytown" after its first proprietor, Gen. John Crosby of Hampden, Maine, Hampden. Etna was incorporated as a town in 1820. it had a population of 802. Camp Etna is a summer colony where Spiritualism (movement), spiritualists have held yearly meetings since 1876, when Daniel Buswell, Jr., held the first meeting in a tent. A temple seating 1,100, a club house, and 78 cottages were built in 1880. The grave of Mrs. Mary Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt, a leader and benefactor of the camp, is marked by a monument.Federal Writer's Project of the WPA for Maine, ''Maine: A Guide Downeast'' (Washington:1937), p. 299; Cadwallader, M. E. ''Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer.'' Progressive Thinker Publishing House: Chicago, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Schools In Penobscot County, Maine
A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory education, compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the ''School#Regional terms, Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Public High Schools In Maine
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word ' populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Josh Tardy
Joshua "Josh" Abraham Tardy (born 1968) is an American politician and attorney from Maine. A Republican, Tardy served in the Maine House of Representatives from the 125th and 25th districts from 2002 to 2010, including two terms (four years) as Minority Leader (2006-2010). He also served as Assistant Minority Leader from 2004 to 2006. He was unable to seek re-election due to term-limits. He has practiced law since 1993. From 1993 to 1994 he was a litigation associate with the law firm of Rudman and Winchell. He later was co-owner of the Millennium Weddings and Convention Center and Moosehead Manufacturing before it closed in 2011. He later was a partner with the law firm of Irwin, Tardy & Morris. He now serves as Of Counsel for the law firm of Rudman and Winchell. Before serving as a state representative he served as chairman of the Maine School Area District 48 Board. He now serves as chairman and commissioner of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services. During the spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aaron Frey
Aaron M. Frey (born c. 1978) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 58th Maine Attorney General, Attorney General of Maine since 2019. He formerly served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic representative in the Maine House of Representatives. Early life and career Frey was born and raised in Dixmont, Maine, Dixmont, Maine. He is the son of Michael Frey and Cynthia Bean-Frey. Frey attended Saint Anselm College, where he served as student body president. He graduated from Saint Anselm with a Bachelor's degree in politics, and later received a Juris Doctor degree from Roger Williams University School of Law. He later started a law firm in Bangor. In 2012 he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives. From December 2014 until his resignation, he represented the 124th district, which includes parts of Bangor and Orono, Maine, Orono. Maine Attorney General In December 2018, Democrats in the Maine Legislature chose Frey as their nominee for Maine At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cooper Flagg
Cooper Flagg (born December 21, 2006) is an American basketball player. He attended Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine as a freshman before transferring to Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida. Flagg won multiple national high school player of the year honors as a senior and was ranked the top recruit in the 2024 class. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, where he was named a consensus first-team All-American and the consensus national player of the year. Early life and high school career Flagg was born in Newport, Maine, and initially attended Nokomis Regional High School. He became the first freshman to be named the Maine Gatorade Player of the Year after averaging 20.5 points, 10 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 3.7 steals, and 3.7 blocks per game. Nokomis won the Class A state championship with Flagg scoring 22 points and grabbing 16 rebounds in a 43–27 win against Falmouth High School in the state final. Flagg transferred to Montverde Academy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dean Cray
Dean A. Cray (born March 5, 1958) is an American politician from Maine. A Republican, Cray served in the Maine House of Representatives (District 28) from 2008 to 2014. District 28 included much of southern Somerset County, including Canaan, Cornville, Hartland, Palmyra, and St. Albans. Cray is the former ranking minority member of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee. Prior to being elected to the House of Representatives, Cray served on the Board of Selectmen of Palmyra for 10 years. Personal Cray, who was born in Dexter, Maine on March 5, 1958, is a graduate of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine Newport is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,133 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town's borders surround the shoreline of Sebasticook Lake. History The town was se .... References 1958 births Living people People from Palmyra, Maine People from Dexter, Maine Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mascot
A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, university society, society, military unit, or brand, brand name. Mascots are also used as fictional, representative spokespeople for consumer products. In sports, mascots are also used for merchandising. Team mascots are often related to their respective team athletic nickname, nicknames. This is especially true when the team's nickname is something that is a living animal and/or can be anthropomorphism, made to have humanlike characteristics. For more abstract nicknames, the team may opt to have an unrelated character serve as the mascot. For example, the sport, athletic teams of the University of Alabama are nicknamed the Alabama Crimson Tide, Crimson Tide, while their mascot is an elephant named Big Al (mascot), Big Al. Team mascots may take the form of a logo, person, live animal, inanimate object, or a costumed c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dixmont, Maine
Dixmont is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,211 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Dixmont was originally granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (of which Maine was then a part) to Bowdoin College, which sold the first settlers their land. For that reason it was initially called "Collegetown". The first settlement was made in 1799. One of the largest purchasers of land in Collegetown was Dr. Elijah Dix of Boston, who never lived there but took an interest in its settlement. When the town was incorporated in 1807, it named itself after Dix. A "malignant fever" broke out among the settlers that same year, killing many of them. Still, the population grew in the decade 1800–1810 from 59 to 337, a rate of increase never repeated. Dr. Dix also died in Dixmont on a trip there in 1809, and was buried in the Dixmont Corner Cemetery. Dix was the grandfather of reformer Dorothea Dix, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Plymouth, Maine
Plymouth is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,325 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,380 people, 537 households, and 366 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 615 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 96.4% White, 0.2% African American, 1.0% Native American, 0.2% Asian, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.6% of the population. There were 537 households, of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.1% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.8% were non-families. 22.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.9% had someone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Newport, Maine
Newport is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,133 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town's borders surround the shoreline of Sebasticook Lake. History The town was settled as East Pond Plantation, then incorporated on June 14, 1814, as Newport. Agriculture was a principal early occupation, and industries included several sawmills, a gristmill, a foundry, cabinetmaking, cabinet shop, and a number of horse harness, harness and blacksmith shops. By 1859, when the population was 1,120, Newport was an important producer of carriages "...which, for durability and finish, [were] not excelled by any in the state." The Maine Central Railroad connected to Newport and made it the terminus for its Dexter & Newport Railway, which opened in 1868. By 1880, the population reached 1,451, and industries included a marble, granite and slate works, and a maker of boots and shoemaking, shoes. In 1891, the woolen mill was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
