FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted Thursday to expel a high school student for an indefinite period of time for having drugs on school property. The vote followed an hourlong expulsion hearing. They directed Superintendent Tom Ward to notify the student and parents and to develop a re-entry plan for the student.
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RSU 9 sets tentative timeline on budget votes
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors reviewed a tentative timeline Thursday for developing a new 2016-17 school budget and scheduling votes on it. The $32.97 million budget presented to voters Tuesday was rejected. With only 10 of the 16 directors in attendance Thursday, the board reviewed the following tentative schedule: • Budget discussion at […]
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RSU 9 board to consider second budget vote
FARMINGTON — Tom Ward, superintendent of Regional School Unit 9, said Wednesday that the school board will meet Thursday to discuss a timeline for a second budget vote. The proposed budget of $32.97 million for 2016-17 was defeated Tuesday, 1,518 to 1,715. It was an increase of $929,273 over this fiscal year. Voters in Farmington, Industry, […]
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RSU 9 voters reject school budget
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 voters rejected a proposed $32.97 million budget Tuesday by a vote of 1,518 to 1,655. Voters were favoring keeping a two-step voting process in place on a proposed budget for the next three years 2,183-908. The district currently uses the two-step process. Farmington voters approved the budget in a […]
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RSU 9 voters to consider keeping 2-vote process on annual budget
FARMINGTON — In addition to validating a $32.97 million school budget, Regional School Unit 9 voters will have a second question to decide at the polls in each of the 10 towns Tuesday, June 14. Voters will be asked whether they want to continue the yes-or-no budget validation referendum process in the district for the […]
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RSU 9 budget meeting contentious at times
FARMINGTON — The first shot against the proposed Regional School Unit 9’s $32.97 million budget was fired just after the discussion began on Article 1 on Wednesday night. From there, it was a volley of shots between those who were in favor of validation and those opposed. According to comments overheard in public and on […]
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RSU 9 director asks 2 Farmington voters to hold budget questions
FARMINGTON — A Regional School Unit 9 school director asked two Farmington women to hold questions Wednesday night while they were waiting for the districtwide budget meeting to vote on a proposed $32.97 million school budget. Director Nancy Porter of Farmington gave a handwritten note to Elaine Graham and told her to pass it to […]
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RSU 9 voters send $32.97M budget to referendum
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 voters set a $32.97 million budget for 2016-17 on Wednesday in the first of two votes on the proposed spending plan. In a town-meeting-style forum at Mt. Blue Campus, voters also set $404,034 for the proposed adult education budget. The local share is $153,982. It is $18,544 more than this […]
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Voters approve $9.19M RSU 58 budget
SALEM TOWNSHIP — Voters from Avon, Kingfield, Phillips and Strong on Tuesday approved a $9.19 million budget for Regional School Unit 58 for 2016-17. According to Superintendent Susan Pratt, the budget is $215,943, or 2.3 percent, less than last year. This year, the school board recommended that $760,827 was needed to pay for athletics, co-curricular […]
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RSU 9 digital media students live-streaming board meetings
FARMINGTON — Three digital media students are keeping the residents of Regional School Unit 9 informed about happenings of the school board. Alex Haggan, 16, of Farmington, Ben Luchini, 18, of New Sharon and Samuel MacDonald, 17, of New Vineyard are live-streaming board meetings on the internet. They are digital media students of Chris Davis […]