FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 Director Ryan Morgan has resigned nearly a year after being elected to a three-year term. Selectmen will be asked to shorten the time for filing nomination papers from 100 days to 10 days at their meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the Town Office, Town Clerk Leanne […]
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RSU 9 directors to decide on superintendent search aspects
FARMINGTON — The search process for a new school superintendent typically takes about three months, according to Steven Bailey, executive editor of the Maine School Management Association. He outlined services Tuesday night that his nonprofit organization could provide the Regional School Unit 9 board of directors at the Mt. Blue Campus. The school board’s Administrator […]
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RSU 9 board to hear options on superintendent search
FARMINGTON — The Maine School Management Association will present options Tuesday to help the Regional School Unit 9 board search for a new superintendent. The workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Forum at Mt. Blue Campus. It is open to the public. Superintendent Tom Ward announced in December he would retire at […]
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No injuries reported when SUV hits RSU 9 bus in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — No one was injured Wednesday afternoon when an SUV hit the back of a stopped Regional School Unit 9 school bus loaded with children on Cape Cod Hill Road, according to police. Franklin County sheriff’s Sgt. Matthew Brann responded to a report of a “property damage only accident” at approximately 3:23 p.m. […]
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RSU 9 staff: Elementary-level alternative education needed
FARMINGTON — Elementary school staff in Regional School Unit 9 have been bitten, punched, pushed, kicked and spit on, to name just a few of the behaviors exhibited by some schoolchildren in recent years, administrators say. Each year dozens of office referrals are made for offenses of physical aggression, overt defiance and disruption. It is […]
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RSU 9 superintendent to retire
FARMINGTON — Tom Ward, superintendent of Regional School Unit 9, will retire at the end of the school year on June 30, 2018. After 41 years in education, 21 of them in RSU 9, he’s following his doctors’ recommendations to find something less stressful to do. Ward, 63, of Temple, wrote in his retirement letter […]
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RSU 9 approves employee contracts
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors approved three new contracts for three employee groups that had been working with expired contracts this year. The board made the decisions Nov. 21. The board approved a three-year contract with Food Service employees. The service is a separate, self-sufficient enterprise that is not included in the school […]
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RSU 9 to submit sharing application
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted unanimously Tuesday to submit a preliminary application to form the Western Maine Regional Service Center. The preliminary application does not lock the district into continuing to be a member of the center that would include several districts sharing services under system administration, Superintendent Tom Ward said. Part […]
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Blocked roads create maze for RSU 9 bus drivers
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 bus drivers did all they could to pick up children on roads still blocked by downed trees and power lines Tuesday, Superintendent Tom Ward said. Sections of several roads were closed in the 10-town district, after a powerful wind storm hit the area Sunday night into Monday. “We did […]
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RSU 9 budget vote results
RSU 9 referendum results Yes Farmington: 821-342 Industry: 91-52 Starks: 137-16 Temple: 76-43 Vienna: 87-27 Wilton: 381-247 No Chesterville: 91-131 New Sharon: 150-159 New Vineyard: 56-81 Tie Weld: 44-44 Total: 1,934 to 1,142