Paul Andrew Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute and a distinguished professor at the University of Maine, has led more than 55 research expeditions into some of the most remote regions of the planet to study climate change and how humans have been involved.

Applications are currently being accepted at the Maine Community Foundation for the Lydia R. Laurendeau Scholarship Fund. Established in 2013, the Lydia R. Laurendeau Fund provides scholarship support to women who are seniors graduating from high schools in Maine who are pursuing post-secondary education in either science or engineering at a four-year university. There is a preference for applicants demonstrating an interest and/or actively participating in their Franco-American heritage.

Plans for the 2018-2019 kindergarten class have begun at Nobleboro Central School. In Maine, a child is eligible to be enrolled in public school in the town where the individual lives provided the child will have turned 5 years old by Oct. 15 of the coming school year.

The honor roll for the second trimester at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta is as follows:

Grade five:

All A’s: Eliana Floge and Mariana Janik; A’s and B’s: Kaiden Abbott, Kellen Adickes, Tyson Ball, Jada Benavidez, Jordan Blanc, Lydia Branson, Jayden Brown, Sean Cushing, Morgyn Deahl, Kaley Edgar, Lucy Fowler, Eric Fraughton, Otis Frost, Gabriel Hanley, Zoe Herald, Joseph Levesque, Harper Lilly, Bryce Meadows, Eli Melanson, Scarlett O’Brien, Tanner Peaslee, Hanna Perce, Olivia Swartzentruber, and Morgan Waltz