PARIS — Classrooms have been cleaned and teachers are getting ready to welcome back students as the 2018-2019 school year gets underway next week. New staff, new programs, new facilities and more await the 3,400-plus students from the eight district towns, including 1,100 at the High School, 500 at the Middle School, and 1,900 at the […]
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Pink Feather Foundation offers free clothes shopping for students
Joni Gordon, president of the Pink Feather Foundation, left, and Jen Kyllonen, treasurer, co-founded the Oxford-based nonprofit that allows underprivileged children and their teachers to shop for donated clothes online for free. Donated cardboard suitcases with the washed and ironed clothes are sent to local schools for the students to take home. (Erin Place/Advertiser Democrat) […]
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Twitchell Observatory is on the move
PARIS — The Roger Twitchell Observatory on Hooper Ledge has seen a lot. The observatory on Hooper Ledge Road has been host to hundreds, probably thousands, of amateur astronomy enthusiasts who have made their way up the winding gravel road on Hooper Ledge in darkness over the last 20 years to view moons, planets, constellations, galaxies…some […]
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Kugell won’t seek chair again
OXFORD HILLS — Veteran SAD 17 Director and Chairman Ron Kugell announced at the June 18 Board of Directors meeting that he will not seek election as the board chair next month. Kugell who has served as chairman for many of his 34 years on the board said he was making the announcement early to […]
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SAD 17 construction funding getting closer
PARIS — Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the SAD 17 Board of Directors at its Monday night meeting that the Oxford Hills Middle School and Agnes Gray Elementary School construction projects may be only a year or two away from state funding. The State Board of Education has released its priority school construction list and has ranked […]
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SAD 17 re-examines field trip practices
NORWAY — All water-based field trips have been stopped until school officials re-examine their practices and policies. Superintendent Rick Colpitts informed the SAD 17 Board of Directors in a June 15 memo that they will review the school district’s own field trip policy, using in part, information that the Lewiston schools may learn after their own […]
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School construction getting closer in SAD 17
PARIS — Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the School Administrative District 17 board of directors Monday night that Oxford Hills Middle School and Agnes Gray Elementary School construction projects might be a year or two away from state funding. The Maine State Board of Education has released its priority school construction list and included Agnes Gray Elementary […]
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School budget ready for voters
PARIS — Voters from the SAD 17 eight district towns will be asked to approve a $39.9 million warrant when the annual budget meeting/hearing gets underway Thursday, June 7 at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the OHCHS Forum. The SAD Board of Directors approved the proposed […]
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School security topic of SAD 17 discussion
PARIS – SAD 17 Director Bob Jewell told his fellow board members last week that additional measures should be taken now, rather than later, to ensure students and staff are safe in the district schoolrooms. With two more shootings on school campuses resulting in the death of 11 students and teachers occurring nationwide and since […]
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Seven suspended at prom for being under influence
PARIS — The SAD 17 Board of Directors were told at its May 21 meeting that seven students were suspended from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School after they arrived at the May 12 prom under the influence of an illegal substance. The issue was brought to the table by Director Bob Jewell who asked why there […]