DIXFIELD – SAD 21 directors voted unanimously Monday night to expel a Dirigo High School student.
No explanation was given after the board left an executive session prior to the vote. Last week, Superintendent Thomas Ward would only say that the incident for which the student was expelled happened in June.
In other business, directors approved the hiring of the following people:
• Owen Libby, as physical education teacher for kindergarten through fifth grade.
• Sarah Greenwald, as grade four teacher at Dixfield Elementary School.
• Tania Clark, as seventh- and eighth-grade language arts teacher at Dirigo Middle School.
• Athena Sanders, as science teacher at Dirigo High School for grades 9 through 12.
Ward also notified the board about his hiring of the following:
• Diana Jones, as an education technician I for special education at the middle school.
• Jenn Bolduc, as an education technician III for special education at the high school.
• Sarah Veayo, as an education technician III for the high school library.
• Crystal Duguay, as an elementary guidance instructor.
• Michele Araujo, as an education technician III at Dirigo Elementary School.
• Lynn Morse, as an education technician II at Peru Elementary School.
Additionally, Mary Virgin-Brooks transferred from food service to part-time secretary at the high school, and Pam Beane was transferred from education technician III for special education at the middle school to Title I education technician III at Dixfield Elementary School.
Ward accepted resignations from Kevin O’Reilly as guidance director at the high school, effective Friday, Aug. 26, and Pat Foster as seventh- and eighth-grade language arts teacher at the middle school, effective immediately.
Hired as new high school football coaches were Hart Daley, head coach, and assistants Scott Blaisdell and Lou Brann. The new head football coach at the middle school is David Crutchfield.
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