KINGFIELD—Regional School Unit 58 directors got their first look at potential budget shortfalls that will impact staffing, programs and services for the coming fiscal year. On Thursday night, Superintendent Susan Pratt told the board they must face tough decisions to fund the 2018-19 school year. In a presentation to the board and an audience of teachers, […]
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RSU 58 board approves art club, accepts resignations
STRONG — Mt. Abram High School students got the OK from Regional School Unit 58 directors Thursday to start an after-school arts club. Student Bradley Frost said the club would provide an opportunity for feedback from other artists. Student Serena Sitz said the club would offer more time for individual art projects beyond the time in […]
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RSU 58 in good financial shape
PHILLIPS — Regional School Unit 58 directors received good news Thursday night: The district is financially healthy. Roger Lebreux and Amy Chasse of Runyon Kersteen Ouellette, a South Portland accounting firm, provided the annual review of the district’s finances and account balances. The audit included strengths, weaknesses and any areas of potential improvement. Part of the […]
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RSU 58 board reverses decision on forming service center
SALEM TOWNSHIP — The Regional School Unit 58 board of directors reversed its decision and agreed to join a regional service center Thursday night. Superintendent Susan Pratt told directors she and six other regional superintendents recently met with a Drummond Woodsum law firm attorney on ways to meet a Maine Department of Education deadline of Nov. […]
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RSU 58 opts to pay penalty
KINGFIELD — The Regional School Unit 58 board of directors faced a no-win situation, deciding to accept a Maine Department of Education $31,000 penalty, rather than partnering with another school district to develop a regional service center. The problem wasn’t that the district couldn’t find a partner district and develop a plan, Superintendent Susan Pratt […]
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RSU 85 board advised of student programs
STRONG — The first two weeks of school have been packed with interesting challenges for Regional School Unit 58 staff and students, school directors were told Thursday evening. Superintendent Susan Pratt told them about a program that provides high school students with the information and skills to continue education after high school. “We celebrated National […]
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Strong students expand learning with drumming
STRONG — Kids need to move. Daily, they sit in classrooms. Later, they may sit in front of televisions and computers. Teachers and others involved with the cognitive development in young people have long understood the connection between movement and learning. They know that those children not involved in some sort of physical activity may […]
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RSU 58 facing school building repairs
SALEM TOWNSHIP — Voters soon will have to revisit some difficult financial choices to pay for repairing, rebuilding and upgrading two of Regional School Unit 58’s four schools. In October 2013, the school board unanimously agreed that sending Mt. Abram High School students to other school districts was not a workable option to cut taxpaxpayers’ […]
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Kingfield to vote on spending, elect officials
KINGFIELD — Voters Saturday will be asked to elect selectmen and a school board member and to approve the 2016-17 town budget. The meeting will start at 9 a.m. at Kingfield Elementary School. Incumbents Heather Moody and Ray Meldrum are running for three-year Board of Selectmen terms without opposition. Regional School Unit 58 Director Beth Luce […]
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Voters approve $9.19M RSU 58 budget
SALEM TOWNSHIP — Voters from Avon, Kingfield, Phillips and Strong on Tuesday approved a $9.19 million budget for Regional School Unit 58 for 2016-17. According to Superintendent Susan Pratt, the budget is $215,943, or 2.3 percent, less than last year. This year, the school board recommended that $760,827 was needed to pay for athletics, co-curricular […]