St. Agatha News

At the 32nd annual Acadian Festival this weekend, it's all about making connections.

If it's summer in the St. John Valley, it must be Acadian Festival time. Thousands are expected to converge on this northern Maine border town June 25-28 to celebrate and honor all things Acadian from historical re-enactments to local delicacies to a giant family reunion.

A Graz man slipped and fell 40 metres to his death in Lower Austria yesterday afternoon.

School administrators hope the third time is the charm when SAD 27 and SAD 10 voters go to the polls for a special referendum May 28 to decide the fate of a proposed Alternative Organizational Structure.

When the seventh-grade students from St. Agatha Academy took a field trip to the Leeds Center for the Arts Distinguished Speakers lunch series, they came away with a plan.

Spiaggia della Purit is on Gallipoli's Citt Vecchia, an island settlement connected to the mainland by a bridge.

Features In the Shadow of the Border For people living in the St. John Valley, the war on terror has had an unexpected casualty - their traditional way of life.

Maine's capital is joining a national program to offer residents -- and their pets -- discounts on prescription drugs.

George Butros assured me that he is not a doctor, nor does he play one on a oeGreya s Anatomy.a But he looked smart in his white lab coat and seemed to know a lot more about nephrology than your average fourth- or fifth-grader. George was one of the students I met during a recent visit to St.

On March 4 this year, Catholic pensioner Ted Atkinson was imprisoned for 12 weeks for the 'crime' of sending pro-life material to pro-abortionists. Unlike the national media furore sparked by Bishop Richard Williamson's Holocaust reductionism, however, the Atkinson case was passed over in relative silence since the mass murder he deplores-the ...

Students at Saint Agatha Academy celebrated their namesakea s feast day on Thursday, Feb.

Three weeks ago I said to my wife, we really have three wonderful children. How are we so lucky? Each of them is a better person than I. All three of them are Eucharist ministers.

Saint Lucy , Virgin and martyr Dear Cy, I am going to have to be blunt. I hate to do this, but if I don't, who will? You are behaving like a Cretan.

Saint Agatha , Virgin and Martyr Dear Garth, Ok. I just heard the news. Why didn't you tell me about it yourself? Are you ashamed? Afraid of what I would say? Does it bother your conscience that you have ...

St. Agatha students hold legends they created that were authored in Wendy Berrymana TMs seventh-grade literature class.

February is a good month for festivals in Sicily. Carnevale , Italy's carnival or mardi gras celebration, is the top Italian festival in February and Acireale holds one of Sicily's most beautiful carnevale ...

The coffin of Tony Gregory during his funeral mass in Saint Agatha's Church, William Street North, Dublin today.

In Roman mythology, the god Vulcan forged treasures in his workshop deep below the hazy slopes of Mount Etna.