SOUTH BRISTOL, Maine — “Edith, mic check,” calls out a student, standing at the audio control board.

A few minutes later, director John Moxcy calls for quiet on the set, then cues his anchors to speak.

John is in the 5th grade. So are his two on-camera anchors, Edith and Ariel.

Welcome to the South Bristol Scoop —a TV news program written and produced by the South Bristol School 5th grade. All three of them.

“I was kind of excited,” Ariel Larrabee-Cotz said when she learned that she and her classmates were going to start creating their own newscasts.

Reality tempered the excitement when the kids in this small fishing town decided the newscast should include the latest lobster prices.

“I didn’t realize I would have to smell fish every day I went down to get prices,” Ariel admits.

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