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, […]
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New RSU 9 buses fueled by propane
FARMINGTON — RSU 9 is powering four 2015 school buses with liquid propane. “It’s better for the environment. It’s doing the right thing, plus it is a U.S. product,” David Leavitt, director of RSU support services, said Monday. The district entered into a lease-purchase agreement in August for the Blue Bird buses at $365,390. The […]
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RSU 9 late-arrival, early-release days allow professional development
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors were presented last week with a list of what teachers and other education staff will be doing for professional development on late-arrival and early-release days. It is a working document, Leanne Condon, assistant superintendent/director of curriculum, said. There are 32 one-hour delayed start Wednesdays left this school year. […]
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Wilton director resigns from RSU 9 school board
FARMINGTON — RSU 9 Superintendent Tom Ward presented school board Director James Black a certificate on behalf of the board Tuesday for Black’s service to the school district. Black of Wilton resigned from the board Tuesday because of his new job duties and family responsibilities. He was elected to a three-year term in June 2013. […]
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RSU 9 opening a success, administrators say
FARMINGTON — By all accounts, opening day in RSU 9 was a success, administrators told the Board of Directors on Tuesday. There were only a few tears from younger students and a couple of students went on the wrong buses, but other than that, everything went smoothly. The student population has grown by 30 students […]