OXFORD — SAD 17 Business Manager Cathy Coffey has received international recognition for her work in the Oxford Hills School District. The 21-year district employee was highlighted in the October edition of the online publication of the Association of School Business Officials International. School Superintendent Rick Colpitts made the announcement at Monday’s school board meeting. […]
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Aspiring higher
Kira Kenniston and Kaya Joseph, foreground, and Shane Fellows, background, walk in the Aspire Higher march in Paris on Tuesday. The three Waterford Memorial School students were among an estimated 4,300 Oxford Hills School District students, staff and community members participating in the annual march to encourage higher education. They walked from Oxford Hills Middle School […]
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Oxford students headed to Acadia for science camp
OXFORD – Fifty-five sixth-grade students from Oxford Elementary School will leave Wednesday morning to spend three days in Acadia National Park at a marine science camp. School Principal Kim Ramharter informed SAD 17 directors Monday night that the annual trip to Schoodic Point for the marine science education program is on following the recent federal […]
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SAD 17 board gets report on facilities work
OXFORD – Eight weeks is not a lot of time for SAD 17 Facilities Manager David Marshall and his maintenance crew to get 642,130 square feet of buildings and 179 acres ready for the new school year. “There’s a lot of work in getting this ready,” Marshall told the board of directors at its meeting […]
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Computer software saving SAD 17 money on busing
OXFORD — The Oxford Hills School District has been able to reduce its bus routes by almost a dozen since it began using a state bus transportation program, according to SAD 17 Transportation Director David Fontaine. “It gives me a visual of where students live,” Fontaine said in a presentation to the SAD 17 Board […]
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March planned to raise student aspirations
OXFORD — The Oxford Hills School District community is being asked to participate in the Oct. 22 Aspire Higher march. “This is a march, not a parade, in support of students’ aspirations,” Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the board of directors at its meeting Monday night. The annual event recognizes the importance of having post high […]
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Money approved for school lighting
OXFORD — The State Department of Education has unanimously approved using part of a $1 million energy efficient contract with Siemens Building Technology to convert some 600 lights at SAD 17 schools to LED fixtures. The project, to switch out the lighting and to convert two oil burners to wood pellet burners, is being financed […]
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Principals report ‘excellent’ start to new school year
OXFORD — Principals and administrators from across the eight-town Oxford Hills School District reported a smooth start to the new school year at Tuesday’s meeting of the board of directors. Superintendent Rick Colpitts said the district hired 68 employees since last year, almost 12 percent of the district’s staff. Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett applauded the […]
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Standards laid out for SAD 17 program approval
OXFORD — Beginning this year, projects and programs floated by executive staff at Oxford Hills School District will be assessed by a set of standards laid out by Superintendent Rick Colpitts at the school board meeting Tuesday evening. Colpitts told board members that the decision whether or not to OK certain projects would be made in […]
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SAD 17 classes get off to good start
NORWAY — Retiring Guy E. Rowe School Principal George Sincerbeaux wore a Donald Duck tie and a big smile Wednesday morning as he welcomed some 450 students. SAD 17 schools opened for students in kindergarten, grades one to seven, and grade nine Wednesday. The remainder of the students start school Thursday. Wearing a green, short-sleeve […]