PARIS — Members of the SAD 17 Board Curriculum Committee, told the full board at last week’s meeting that they are looking into the effects of a later start time for students. “This is just research. We are not changing bus schedules or start times,” Curriculum Committee Chairman Ann Macro emphasized to the board. “We are […]
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Oxford students ask for more gym time
OXFORD — A group of Oxford Elementary School fourth-grade students are asking for more time for physical education. In letters to the SAD 17 board of directors, the students said they have gone as long as five weeks in a row without gym class because of field trips, holidays and other activities. They usually get 40 […]
Middle school lacrosse coming to Oxford Hills
PARIS — Lacrosse may soon be coming to Oxford Hills Middle School, thanks to an active group of parent volunteers who received consent to proceed with a lacrosse club from the SAD 17 Board of Directors at Monday night’s regularly scheduled board meeting. “The hockey club started very similar,” said Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Principal […]
Ruth Marie Wiles
1920 – 2015 SCARBOROUGH — With the same grace and dignity that she exhibited throughout her life, Ruth Wiles, beloved mother of Kathryn Wiles Stevens and Thomas Wiles, passed from this life to the next on Monday, Oct. 19, three weeks shy of her 95th birthday. Ruth was born in Roxbury on Nov. 10, 1920, […]
SAD 17 sidelines two buses for repairs
PARIS — School Administrative District 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts informed the board of directors Monday night that two buses were pulled from service this month after a director reported defects. Director Toby Whitman of West Paris was concerned after a sporting event Sept. 5 about rust holes allegedly large enough to fit a cellphone through, and uneven […]
Oxford Hills classes begin Tuesday
PARIS — New teachers, new students and new programs will greet thousands of children headed to classes in the Oxford Hills School District next week. On Tuesday, Sept. 1, all elementary students and seventh- and ninth-graders will return to school. All others start Wednesday, Sept. 2. The district includes the towns of Norway, Paris, Hebron, West […]
THS has new dean of students
BETHEL — The SAD 44 board has unanimously approved the nomination of Kristin Chambers Dacko as dean of students for Telstar Regional High School. She succeeds Cheryl Lang, who was named last month as the high school principal. “We feel very, very fortunate to have such a great candidate to bring before you,” Superintendent David […]
Paris Cape Historical Society expands
PARIS — The Paris Cape Historical Society is expanding and wants the community to utilize the new meeting, archival and research space once it’s complete. A groundbreaking ceremony was held July 6 for the new addition to the society’s home and museum at 77 High St. Joseph Boudreau, chairman of the Board of Trustees, who also […]
SAD 17 board approves team trip
PARIS — School Administrative District 17 directors voted Monday evening to allow the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School varsity baseball team to miss three days of school to play in a preseason tournament in North Carolina next spring. The vote was 11-4. The majority agreed to send the hand-selected team to North Carolina from April […]
SAD 17 names two new principals
PARIS — Two School Administrative District 17 elementary schools will have new principals this fall. Beth Clarke, who served as interim principal of the Agnes Gray School in West Paris this year, has been named principal of the Agnes Gray and Hebron Station schools. She will take over from Melanie Ellsworth, principal of the Hebron […]