MSAD 54 officials want the school to be built on the same property where the Margaret Chase Smith School currently is located on Heselton Street. Nearly 72 percent of voters in Maine's School Administrative District (MSAD) 54 gave their support in mid-June for the construction of a $75 million consolidated elementary school in Skowhegan.ĭistrict officials and architects now will turn their attention to the design development and funding phase of the project to be approved by the Maine Department of Education before going out to bid for construction. The state will cover approximately 95 percent of the cost to build the school. I think we’ll do fine.This architectural rendering is of the $75 million consolidated elementary school that’s planned for Skowhegan. “We’ve done a lot of practicing to get ready for this, so hopefully, the conditions are good. “I’d love it if we could get some 5-pounders,” Carrier said. It’s also an opportunity to show the entire country what two Mainers can do. With Carrier set to attend Bethel University in Tennessee on a fishing scholarship this fall, it could be one of the duo’s last chances to fish together for a while. That’s something both boys are certainly in need of with Carrier having just graduated from high school and Morris only a year away from doing the same. “They give you two or three practice days, so we wanted to take advantage of that.”Īlthough no cash will be awarded to the winning teams, hundreds of thousands in scholarship money will be on the line. “We’ve had to get used to it because it’s a lot tougher to get a bite down here than it is back in Maine,” said Morris, who is using a friend’s 2021 Triton boat for the tournament. Carrier and Morris, though, left Maine for Alabama a week ago to get a few practice days in before the tournament opener. Cuts will be made after the first two days with the teams with the biggest three-fish bags advancing. The tournament began Wednesday morning and is set to run through Saturday. The teens were preparing the boat for the 13th annual high school fishing world finals and national championship this weekend in Florence, Alabama. Zachary Morris, 17, left, carries fishing rods to Colby Carrier, 18, who is loading them into a bass fishing boat on June 12 in Skowhegan. It’s a little different than what we’re used to, but I’ve fished the lake below it at another tournament, so I’m not totally unfamiliar with it.” “You try to go and find a school of bass and see what they’re doing. “It’s a little less about fishing the cover and a lot more about school-fishing and ledge-fishing,” Carrier said. Both species are present in Pickwick and Wilson lakes, though the two are famous for their trophy smallmouth fisheries. The two will travel anywhere, from the Grand Lake Stream region in Washington County to the closer Belgrade Lakes region.Īlthough more so known for its trout, salmon and togue fisheries, Maine is home to largemouth and smallmouth bass in lakes and rivers. With both Carrier and Morris having boats, there’s no Maine body of water with bass that’s unreachable to the duo.
“We’ve both done really well together and learned a lot from each other. “I’d been looking for a partner for a couple years, and I knew him and knew his father, so we became partners,” said Carrier, who qualified with his partner by placing first in a seven-team tournament at Crescent Lake in Casco. Morris and Carrier are representing Maine in the 13th annual high school fishing world finals and national championship this weekend in Florence, Alabama. “We know it’s going to be a pretty big challenge, but we’ve been planning and doing our research to identify what the elite fishermen there do.”īass fisherman Colby Carrier, center, grabs rain gear as he and Zachary Morris, 17, left, prepare a bass fishing boat on June 12 at the Carriers’ home in Skowhegan. “We’ve been excited about this for a while,” said Carrier, a recent Skowhegan Area High School graduate. The event, held on adjacent Pickwick and Wilson lakes, pits the two Mainers against the best of the best in their age group from all across the United States, as well the world. Now, their fishing prowess has brought them across the country, where they’re competing in one of their biggest events nationwide.Ĭarrier and Morris are in Florence, Alabama, for The Bass Federation’s high school national championships. The duo’s win in that tournament - the largest in the state of Maine - was one of their many countless victories together in thousands of hours spent on the water. Colby Carrier, 18, left, and Zachary Morris, 17, pose with their fishing rods and gear on June 12 in Skowhegan.
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