To achieve a 5% increase from this year’s budget of $13.56 million, a reduction of $64,437, the district might cut middle and high school Nordic skiing, middle school clubs such as Speech and Debate, Technology Club, winter cheering teams, discontinue online streaming of board directors’ meetings, and cut an athletic director assistant position, among other cuts.
Marianne Hutchinson
Marianne Hutchinson is a general assignment reporter for the Rumford Falls Times. She has worked for the Times for three years covering the RSU 10 and RSU 56 school boards encompassing the towns of Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield and other nearby towns in the River Valley area. She also covers the selectmen’s and town meetings and other activities of the towns of Canton and Andover. Marianne has lived in Lewiston for 33 years with her husband, Dennis. She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in Journalism and advertising. Before becoming a reporter for the Times she held various positions as an educational technician for English as a Second Language students of Lewiston schools and as a proofreader and production editor for Pine Tree Composition, a former typesetting company in Lewiston. In her spare time, she loves to read books, especially memoirs, and articles from newspapers and magazines. She also likes to attend exercise classes at the YMCA in Auburn or go for bike rides with her husband and friends. During the winter months she enjoys snowshoeing and cross-country skiing with family and friends.
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Rumford-based school district budget ready for final board vote
Directors have trimmed more than $2 million from the original proposal.
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Rumford-based school board cuts eight positions from proposed budget
Special education director, four ed tech and three teaching jobs eliminated.
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Watch: Dixfield-based speech and debate team heading to national tournament
The team qualified for two national tournaments this year, one in Des Moines, Iowa, and the other in Chicago.
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Mexico tech school applications increase to over 260
Director Brenda Gammon said the number is about 50 more than this year.
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Dixfield-based school board approves added procedure on approving library materials
Directors voted 7-1 to give the superintendent the final say.
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Rumford-based school district facing fourth round of budget cuts for 2024-25
Directors have trimmed $2.7 million from the $37.24 million proposal.
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Andover voters reject purchase of electronic sign announcing town meetings, events
Andover residents didn’t pass the vote on whether to purchase and install an electronic sign for the town.
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Face Time: Laurie Milledge — With her husband, raising an autistic son to be ‘very proud of’
Her advice: ‘Try everything till you find what works . . . never give up . . . they are a gift from God.’
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Canton has six positions to be filled in June elections
Nomination papers are available at the Town Office at 94 Turner St.