FARMINGTON — Ninety-six percent of 85 students who took a survey at the Mt. Blue Middle School believe they are getting too much homework, student Jack Cushman said Tuesday night. Four percent of the students said they hardly ever have homework. Cushman, Isabelle Fifield and Hunter Donald, all of New Sharon, and seventh-graders in the […]
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RSU 9 board adds 20 days to Mt. Blue student’s suspension
FARMINGTON — RSU 9 directors voted Tuesday to add five days to a 10-day out-of-school suspension, and 15 days of in-house suspension for a Mt. Blue High School student for a drug-related matter. The student has served the 10-day suspension, Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday. Administrators and Ward are working with the student to develop […]
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RSU 9 lists schedule for flu vaccinations for students
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue Regional School District will offer free flu vaccines for students beginning Oct. 27 at Mt. Blue Middle School. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against this serious disease, Regional School Unit 9 nurse Karen Marceau said […]
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RSU 9 board approves assistant director for special services
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted Tuesday to approve Ruth Gauvin as interim assistant director of special services. Gauvin, of Farmington, has been a special education teacher at Cascade Brook School in Farmington for 21 years. She will assist interim special services director Christine Gatto-Shea. Both will work four days a week. The […]
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Wilton enters contract with New Gloucester company for revaluation
WILTON — Selectpersons approved a property revaluation contract Tuesday with John E. O’Donnell & Associates of New Gloucester for a cost of $225,000, Town Manager Rhonda Irish said Friday. Voters approved raising $56,250 at town meetings in 2013 and June for half of the cost, she said. They will be asked to raise the remainder at […]
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RSU 9 short of bus drivers
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 has a shortage of bus drivers, but it is not the only school district needing help. The problem is statewide, David Leavitt, director of support services, said. “We are three drivers short. We have been since the start of school,” he said. Two of those are regular to-and-from school […]
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RSU 9 directors reverse special education restructuring
FARMINGTON — RSU 9 school directors reversed a decision made Sept. 9 and voted Tuesday to not pilot a restructuring of the district’s Special Education Department. The plan was to have a special education teacher in each of the district’s seven schools become a building-based coordinator for this school year. Instead, directors decided to go […]
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RSU 9 school bus, truck collide
FARMINGTON — No schoolchildren were injured Wednesday when a pickup truck and a RSU 9 school bus collided at a four-way stop intersection in West Farmington, Farmington police secretary Bonnie Pomeroy said Thursday. A Mazda pickup truck driven by Nicholas King, 16, of Weld was heading from Temple Road to Bridge Street, and a 2013 […]
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RSU 9 to get eight new copiers in new lease-purchase pact
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 will get eight new copiers under a new municipal lease-purchase agreement the board of directors approved Sept. 9 for $193,902.41. The cost of the Xerox copiers is $113,091.08. The remaining $72,910.66 and another $7,900.67 is to pay off two other lease purchase agreements from 2012 with the same company, […]