RVCS and DRHS essay writers honored by VFW Post

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ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS — The Shirley B. Carter VFW Post of Dexter hosted an awards night for winners of the annual Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy Essay contest. Students from the Ridge View Community School and Dexter Regional High School were acknowledged for their winning essays. Pictured are front, from left, seventh-grade winners Cole Smith, Amelia Rolfe and Arianna Jandreau, high school first-place honoree Will Strauch and Dexter Regional High School teacher Vincent Malinauskas. Back, Ray Wallace, Bill French, Lee Jerome, Post Commander David Iverson. Ridge View teacher Sue Killam and Richard Batchelder. Not pictured, high school student Hannah Farrar.