NORWAY — A local couple said parents are not being notified of lice outbreaks in SAD 17. “This is crazy. As a parent, I want to know if there is a problem,” said Angela Bonville, whose 11-year-old daughter came home from the Guy E. Rowe School in Norway this week with nits, or lice eggs, […]
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SAD 17 officials give go-ahead to move offices to Paris
PARIS — The SAD 17 board of directors on Monday unanimously approved an amendment to its 20-year lease with the Western Maine University and Community College Center to allow school administration offices to relocate to the center on Main Street. Moving the central offices from leased space at Oxford Plaza on Route 26 in Oxford […]
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SAD 17 Central Office move called ‘win-win’
OXFORD — A plan to move Oxford Hills School District’s administration offices to the Western Maine University and Community College Center at 232 Main St. in Paris will be considered by school directors Monday night. The school district owns the building. Moving the Central Office from leased space at the Oxford Plaza on Route 26 […]
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SAD 17 survey shows student use of inhalants up
OXFORD — The use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana by Oxford Hills students has decreased over the past decade, but use of inhalants is up, according to a youth health survey released by SAD 17 educators this week. “A major concern is sniffing inhalants,” district Health Coordinator Pat Carson said. She and high school health […]
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SAD 17 board approves 2014-15 budget
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Board of Directors approved the proposed $37.65 million fiscal year 2014-15 budget at its meeting Monday night. The proposed budget will defer major maintenance projects but maintain programs districtwide and add teaching positions, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said . The budget, which is 4.27 percent more than this fiscal year, requires […]
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SAD 17 budget adds teachers, defers roof, paving projects
NORWAY — The proposed $37.65 million SAD 17 budget will defer major maintenance projects but maintain programs districtwide and add teaching positions, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said at Tuesday night’s budget hearing. Less than a dozen people attended to hear Colpitts unveil details of the proposed fiscal 2014-15 budget. During the nearly 90-minute presentation at the Guy […]
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SAD 17 budget hearing in Hebron rescheduled
OXFORD — SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts has announced the public hearing on the 2014-15 school budget for Hebron and West Paris residents has been postponed to Thursday, April 17. It will be held at 7 p.m. at Hebron Station School. It was originally scheduled for April 16. The others hearings are: * 7 p.m. […]
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SAD 17 lowers average local assessment increase
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Budget Committee has reduced the expected average increase in the local assessment for 2014-15 from 4.5 percent to 3.99 percent. “We got our final rate increase for health insurance, and it was 7.5 percent,” Business Manager Cathy Fanjoy Coffey said. “We had budgeted 9.5 percent. We used that savings to […]
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Superintendent presents $37.65 million budget
HARRISON — The SAD 17 Board of Directors got a first glimpse of Superintendent Rick Colpitt’s proposed $37.65 million budget for 2015, which includes measures to reduce class size at district elementary schools. The budget for fiscal years 2014-15 is 4.75 percent greater than 2013-14 and represents an overall 4.5 percent increase in what town’s […]