WALES — The school board unanimously voted in favor of offering retirement incentives Wednesday night, and 18 teachers have already taken them up on it. Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said Thursday that nine teachers had told him they’d be interested in retiring at the end of this school year and another nine at the end of […]
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RSU 4 weighs paying teachers to retire
WALES — On Wednesday night, the school board will weigh whether to give up to five $4,000 annual payments to teachers on the cusp of retiring as incentive to make it official. Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said Regional School Unit 4 is not looking to trim staff; the plan is to rehire for those positions. Payments […]
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RSU 4 busing up for discussion again
WALES — School board members will take up the idea of privatized busing — again — on Wednesday and could vote to put the issue to rest for a while. Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said he’ll lay out some issues around the topic at the meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Oak Hill High […]
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RSU 4 joins Poland, Gray-New Gloucester for joint hockey team
WALES — After a several-year hiatus, hockey is back. Regional School Unit 4 students will play with the 26ers out of Poland and Gray-New Gloucester on a cooperative, Class A team after the school board approved the proposal earlier this month. There’s no cost to the local district for the first two years, according to […]
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People You Know: Kathy Martin, teacher-turned-principal
SABATTUS — As soon as school let out in Auburn in June, Kathy Martin headed here, eight miles away, for the last week of classes and let students fire away. What was her favorite book? they asked. Her favorite movie? What’d she like to do with her family in the summer? All the important things, […]
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Voters in Litchfield, Sabattus, Wales approve school vote in first ballot
Schools in Sabattus, Wales and Litchfield have a budget for 2014-15. Voters in all three towns approved RSU 4’s $18.1 million spending package Tuesday, sweeping away some of the bad feelings left by 2013’s summer-long budget controversy that ended after three votes. “I think the communities probably did some thinking and realized that investing in […]
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RSU 4 budget ready for voters on Tuesday
Voters from Sabattus, Wales and Litchfield gave their initial approval to RSU 4’s $18.1 million school spending package Wednesday. The 53 voters made no changes to the 16-item budget but they asked lots of questions, Superintendent James Hodgkin said. “I think we were pretty well-prepared,” Hodgkin said. “We went through a pretty comprehensive process in […]
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RSU 4 voters to weigh $18.1 million budget
An $18.1 million school spending package will go to voters in Sabattus, Wales and Litchfield on June 10. That budget figure, approved by the RSU 4 school board on April 30, calls for a 2.8 percent increase over last year’s controversial budget. In 2013, the RSU 4 budget referendum failed twice before winning approval. “I […]
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RSU 4 board meets on busing. Again.
WALES — Waiting for a decision on the matter of RSU 4 bus routes? Wait some more. After an hour of behind-closed-doors discussion Wednesday night, the School Board promptly announced to the public that no vote would be taken on the issue. They tried to move on to the next agenda item, but the roomful […]
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RSU 4 delays vote on privatizing bus service
WALES — After more than two hours of discussion Tuesday night, the school board delayed until next week voting on whether to privatize RSU 4 bus routes. Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said the board is expected to vote at a meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at Oak Hill Middle School. The district is […]