OXFORD — SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts has announced the public hearing on the 2014-15 school budget for Hebron and West Paris residents has been postponed to Thursday, April 17. It will be held at 7 p.m. at Hebron Station School. It was originally scheduled for April 16. The others hearings are: * 7 p.m. […]
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SAD 17 lowers average local assessment increase
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Budget Committee has reduced the expected average increase in the local assessment for 2014-15 from 4.5 percent to 3.99 percent. “We got our final rate increase for health insurance, and it was 7.5 percent,” Business Manager Cathy Fanjoy Coffey said. “We had budgeted 9.5 percent. We used that savings to […]
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Superintendent presents $37.65 million budget
HARRISON — The SAD 17 Board of Directors got a first glimpse of Superintendent Rick Colpitt’s proposed $37.65 million budget for 2015, which includes measures to reduce class size at district elementary schools. The budget for fiscal years 2014-15 is 4.75 percent greater than 2013-14 and represents an overall 4.5 percent increase in what town’s […]
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SAD 17 appoints two school principals, facilities director
HARRISON – SAD 17 directors unanimously voted Monday night to approve Superintendent Rick Colpitts’ nominations of two elementary school principals and a facilities director. Daniel Hart, who has served as principal of Telstar Regional High School for the past six years, will replace longtime Guy E. Rowe Elementary School Principal George “Beaux” Sincerbeaux, who is […]
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Committee OKs $37.65 million school budget
OXFORD— The SAD 17 Budget Committee has approved preliminary $37.65 million budget for fiscal year 2014-15, a 4.5 percent overall increase in local spending. The proposed budget was one of two considered in last week’s final committee hearings, which will now be sent to the school board for approval. Town public hearings will begin April […]
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School officials and DEP develop oil spill prevention plan
OXFORD — School officials said this week that oil spill plans have been developed, but efforts are still ongoing to evaluate how to address severely corroded supports under the above-ground oil tank at the Paris Elementary School. “We’re still doing inspections at the Paris Elementary School,” Operations Committee Chairman Nick DiConzo told the SAD 17 […]
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SAD 17 considers option for heating school
OXFORD — SAD 17 directors were told Monday night that the Operations Committee and administrators are looking at several options in replacing an oil tank at Oxford Hills Middle School that the state Department of Environmental Protection said must go. “We’re still looking at all our options,” Nick DiConzo, chairman of the Operations Committee, said. […]
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School officials counting snow days
OXFORD — Schools across the state are watching the calendar as snow days continue to add up during this long winter. “We have six snow days built in. We’ve used five now,” SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts said. “If we use more than six, we then continue to add to the end of the school […]
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SAD 17 budget hearings scheduled; bottom line to be determined
OXFORD — The 2014-15 budget for SAD 17 will be unveiled at public hearings in April, but the amount is still unknown, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said Thursday. “There is no bottom line here for me to report,” he said. Last year, voters approved a $35.94 million spending plan that required an average 6.5 percent increase […]
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SAD 17 addressing absent oil spill plans
OXFORD — SAD 17 officials will consult with engineers after a Maine Department of Environmental Protection report found a series issues with how the school district stores oil. In a 12-page inspection report released Wednesday, the DEP told school officials to have engineers evaluate the condition of oil storage tanks, safety alarm systems, and how […]