Danville Junction Grange members collected $75 for the Park Avenue School BackPack Program in Auburn. The program provides students suffering the effects of chronic hunger at the Auburn school with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food to eat during weekends and school vacations. For $250 a year per student, Good Shepherd Food-Bank is able to provide a variety […]
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Proposed $100 parking fee draws ire of Scarborough students
SCARBOROUGH — Generating $50,000 additional revenue in any school budget is a challenge. Scarborough High School seniors Katie Elliott and Jack Sullivan are leading efforts to make it a bigger challenge as they seek to block a plan to charge students $100 to park at school this year. “It’s not fair to put the fees […]
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Ellsworth moves ahead on plans for former schools
ELLSWORTH — The city is one step closer to turning a former school site into the city’s signature park while renovating another former school into a community and senior center. The city has signed a $279,000 deal with Woodard and Curran, a Bangor engineering firm, to lead the efforts to turn the former Bryant E. […]
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State takes away grant to Auburn schools, for now
AUBURN — A $300,000 grant the state Department of Education awarded to local schools on April 21 has been rescinded because another school district appealed the process, DOE spokesman David Connerty-Marin said Monday. Auburn School Department’s loss of the $300,000 grant will mean there will be no expansion of a summer and after-school program for […]
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RSU 9 to outline proposed budget Monday
FARMINGTON — Voters will be able to review next year’s school budget at a public hearing Monday at Mt. Blue High School. At 7 p. m., the Regional School Unit 9 board will present the proposed $28.9 million budget for 2012-13 in the high school gymnasium. The final increases add approximately $3 million to next […]
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State board members go to Auburn schools to learn about technology
AUBURN — As Fairview Elementary School sixth-graders in Stephanie Marris’ class worked on laptops learning about Greek mythology, guests peered over their shoulders. Members of the Maine Board of Education, an advisory committee to the Maine Department of Education, toured Auburn schools Wednesday to see how technology was used in classrooms. “Feel free to ask […]
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Auburn school budget passes on recount
AUBURN — After the numbers were checked Wednesday morning, the Auburn school budget vote has passed, 349 to 344, with one vote blank. Of the people who voted against the budget, 328 said they wanted the budget decreased, and 43 said they wanted the budget increased. The budget is slated to begin July 1 with […]
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Count finds Auburn school vote a tie
AUBURN — School referendum voters turned out Tuesday for a dead heat. Voters will be heading back to the ballot boxes if the unofficial results for the school budget vote hold true. Acting City Clerk Sue Clements-Dallaire said the vote ended in a tie — with 349 residents on either side of the proposed $35.9 […]