High School student finds new employment opportunity as plumber through state legislation

BIDDEFORD — Biddeford Regional Center of Technology graduate Nate Leary of Saco became the first high school graduate in the State of Maine to pass the State’s journeyman plumbing exam through a new career pathway option created by state legislation.  Passed last year, the legislation allows graduates from Career and Technical Education plumbing programs to take the journeyman plumbing test upon graduation and become a journeyman-in-training.