by Will Tuell 

Morgan Swan of East Machias was unveiled as the 2022 National Grange Educator of the Year during a ceremony at the Jonesboro Grange on December 30. Swan, a native of the Caribou area, has been teaching kindergarten at Elm Street School in East Machias since 2019 where she started the previous year as an educational technician under longtime kindergarten teacher Diane Abrams.