Given the crazy weather of late, it was a happy surprise that the Nordic team had a skate race last Wednesday at Libby Hill in Gray. Conditions were quite soft, but it was great to be out and on a different course. Nick Neveu and Olivia Skillings took first place in their respective races. Tucker […]
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Maine Coast Waldorf School parent Abigail Gray Swartz is the artist behind the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine! You can see the cover and read the story here: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2017-02-06. You may also read the Portland Press Herald interview with Abigail here: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/30/freeport-artist-living-a-dream-with-cover-image-on-this-weeks-new-yorker/ We congratulate Abigail on this fine accomplishment!
Read More »The Early Childhood parents who attended Monday’s One Campaign Morning Coffee were very excited by what they learned about the One Campaign. A tremendous outpouring of support from this community is making it possible for us to unite the entire EC-12th grade school onto this campus and, at the same time, renovate existing buildings to […]
Read More »A one-weekend-per-month format for the internationally-recognized full Permaculture Design Certificate Course, running April through August 2017. Offered by The Resilience Hub in partnership with Maine Coast Waldorf School. The event will be held on the school’s 80-acre campus in Freeport Maine. Through this course, you will: ● Gain a thorough understanding of permaculture origins, ethics, principles […]
Read More »Maine Coast Waldorf School alum Maddie Purcell has founded Fyood Kitchen which is based at Fork Food Lab in West Bayside. Fyood Kitchen is a startup that organizes amateur cooking competitions. It recently won the Big Gig event, which was held at University Credit Union in Orono on Nov. 15. As winner they received $250 […]
Read More »Under sunny skies and moderate temperatures, the ski team enjoyed a spectacular day in Fryeburg last Monday for WMC relay and individual races. The boys placed two skiers in the top 10, while the girls landed three. Boys relay teams took second and third, and the girls teams came in first and sixth. It was […]
Read More »This Friday and Saturday Maine Coast Waldorf High School freshman Brenna Moore, sophomore Finn Dierks-Brown, and senior Thomas McLaughlin will travel to Windham High School to participate in the District 2 Choral Festival. The trio was selected from hundreds of students across the district to participate in this highly competitive musical event. The students will […]
Read More »On January 17th, Maine Coast Waldorf High School held its first forum of the new year welcoming an extraordinary young woman and a rising star in Maine. Fatuma Hussein brought her infectious energy to the high school students and to the 8th graders who had just finished a unit on Africa. Fatuma was 12 years old […]
Read More »Guess What? We did it! Your generosity has helped our community reach our $4.1 million fundraising goal for the One Campaign! THANK YOU! 90% of current parents contributed to the largest capital campaign in our school’s 31-year history. And we did it with gusto—in just shy of a year from organizing the One Campaign’s volunteer […]
Read More »Exciting News! Senior Tucker Pierce is featured in the January 23rd issue of Sports Illustrated! In the section entitled “FACES IN THE CROWD” (p.18) under Tucker Pierce – New Gloucester, Maine – Nordic Skiing – it states: “Tucker, a senior at Maine Coast Waldorf High in Freeport, finished first at the WMC High School Nordic […]
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