PARIS — Superintendent Rick Colpitts unveiled a proposed $40,046, 613 Fiscal 2019 budget at the April 3 Board of Directors meeting. The proposed budget shows a .39 or $157,166 decrease over the approved Fiscal 2018 budget of $40,203,780. It does not include the state subsidy for vocational education because of a change in the funding formula […]
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Marketing, DECA celebrate 50 strong years
PARIS — The Oxford Hills Technical School marketing program is celebrating 50 years of success this year. Since 1968, the vocational program has combined marketing, entrepreneurship, and retail management and academics to produce successful business men and women whose careers have taken them across the country and beyond. “The Oxford Hills marketing program set a […]
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School security is complicated, multifaceted
PARIS — School safety and security has become everyone’s business. A mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 that killed 14 students and three adults, has sparked debate, outrage, conversation and, in the Oxford Hills School District, a community-wide effort to ensure students can be educated in a […]
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Extra hours may make up for snow days
PARIS — Students attended school last Friday and, depending on the upcoming weather, may have to stay late for an extra hour for at least a week after April school vacation following action the Board of Directors to mitigate the impact of nine snow days already used this year. The last day of school for students […]
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Paying respect, being heard and working on solution
PARIS — At 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 15 – one day late because of the snowstorm – approximately 200 of the 1,100 student body at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School walked quietly out the side door and assembled at the bus loop. Administrators including Superintendent of Schools Rick Colpitts, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett and Principal Ted Moccia, […]
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Parents concerned about politicized student walkout
PARIS — SAD 17 Director Natalie Brown said she believes the administration was “remiss” in not bringing directors into the planning conversation about a student walkout that subsequently turned into a political anti-gun rally at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on March 15. Brown addressed her fellow directors and administration at the end of the […]
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Walkout was to be apolitical
PARIS — The Oxford Hills School District administrators said they had three options when determining how to respond to last week’s student walkout at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in remembrance of 17 students and faculty members killed last month at a Florida high school. Nikolas Cruz slipped into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
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Help PES at McDonald’s!
PARIS — Once again McDonalds in Paris is helping Paris Elementary School. On Monday, March 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. 20 percent of all purchases will go to Paris Elementary School Parent teacher Organization. Purchases may be made in the store or at the drive-through.
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High school roof problem needs to be fixed
PARIS — It will cost an estimated $4.5 million to replace the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School’s roof and its HVAC system. That’s the message Superintendent Rick Colpitts gave the SAD 17 Board of Directors at its March 5 meeting during an informational presentation on the problematic roof. The 20-year-old roof structure remains stable but its […]
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Students building for students
WEST PARIS — Students in the Agnes Gray Elementary School have been watching a classroom grow in the backyard of their school. The outdoor classroom, which will allow the approximately 100 students to bring indoor learning to the outdoors under nearby hills, trails and a stream, is nearing completion. Students from the Oxford Hills Technical School’s […]