OXFORD — The Oxford Hills School District has been able to reduce its bus routes by almost a dozen since it began using a state bus transportation program, according to SAD 17 Transportation Director David Fontaine. “It gives me a visual of where students live,” Fontaine said in a presentation to the SAD 17 Board […]
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March planned to raise student aspirations
OXFORD — The Oxford Hills School District community is being asked to participate in the Oct. 22 Aspire Higher march. “This is a march, not a parade, in support of students’ aspirations,” Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the board of directors at its meeting Monday night. The annual event recognizes the importance of having post high […]
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Money approved for school lighting
OXFORD — The State Department of Education has unanimously approved using part of a $1 million energy efficient contract with Siemens Building Technology to convert some 600 lights at SAD 17 schools to LED fixtures. The project, to switch out the lighting and to convert two oil burners to wood pellet burners, is being financed […]
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Principals report ‘excellent’ start to new school year
OXFORD — Principals and administrators from across the eight-town Oxford Hills School District reported a smooth start to the new school year at Tuesday’s meeting of the board of directors. Superintendent Rick Colpitts said the district hired 68 employees since last year, almost 12 percent of the district’s staff. Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett applauded the […]
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Standards laid out for SAD 17 program approval
OXFORD — Beginning this year, projects and programs floated by executive staff at Oxford Hills School District will be assessed by a set of standards laid out by Superintendent Rick Colpitts at the school board meeting Tuesday evening. Colpitts told board members that the decision whether or not to OK certain projects would be made in […]
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SAD 17 classes get off to good start
NORWAY — Retiring Guy E. Rowe School Principal George Sincerbeaux wore a Donald Duck tie and a big smile Wednesday morning as he welcomed some 450 students. SAD 17 schools opened for students in kindergarten, grades one to seven, and grade nine Wednesday. The remainder of the students start school Thursday. Wearing a green, short-sleeve […]
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SAD 17 prepares to welcome students, staff
OXFORD – New teachers, new students and a new school will greet the thousands of children headed to classes in the Oxford Hills School District this week. On Wednesday, Aug. 28, kindergartners at Waterford and West Paris schools, and students from around the district in grades one through seven and grade nine, go back to […]
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Middle School South campus nearly ready; viewing planned
OXFORD — Oxford Hills Middle School students and their families will have an opportunity to see the newly refurbished campus on Madison Avenue during a walk-through Tuesday evening. Principal Troy Eastman said the school will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 20 for viewing. An open house for parents to meet their children’s […]
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Oxford Hills receives two-year waiver from state-mandated school improvement provisions
OXFORD — The Oxford Hills School District will save $120,000 set aside for mandated tutorial services under the No Child Left Behind legislation. Curriculum Director Kathy Elkins told the Oxford Hills School District board of directors Monday night that the Department of Education has approved a waiver allowing the state to calculate a new way […]
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Portable classrooms removed from Paris school grounds
PARIS — The portable classrooms at Oxford Hills Middle School on Pine Street have been removed from the site. Movers from Schiavi Corp. from Oxford loaded up the last of the seven portable units Thursday. Some had been there for 25 years. The portables were sold by bids to three people for a total of […]