BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 4, 2021
Teenagers eagerly spoke up last week at the Ecology Learning Center, a charter high school in Unity, during a vigorous debate about the proposed CMP transmission line corridor. Their teacher, Adam Williams, had given them assignments to argue either for or against the controversial project, regardless of their own perspective on it. “We know there are many ways to see one thing,” Williams told the class. The learning experience is just one way the school stands out, with others including its focus on cultivating compassion, resiliency and an appreciation for both the natural environment and progress. Since September, when the school opened its doors to students for the first time, they have also tapped maple trees to boil syrup, gone on hiking, biking and cross-country ski adventures, and helped maintain the Hills to Sea Trail that runs across Waldo County.