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Paying respect, being heard and working on solution

PARIS — At 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 15 – one day late because of the snowstorm – approximately 200 of the 1,100 student body at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School walked quietly out the side door and assembled at the bus loop. Administrators including Superintendent of Schools Rick Colpitts, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett and Principal Ted Moccia, […]

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Parents concerned about politicized student walkout

PARIS — SAD 17 Director Natalie Brown said she believes the administration was “remiss” in not bringing directors into the planning conversation about a student walkout that subsequently turned into a political anti-gun rally at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on March 15. Brown addressed her fellow directors and administration at the end of the […]

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Listen!

This nation should be proud of its children. Especially those children from Parkland, Florida. For the first time in decades those with power are waking up to the scourge in America that exists nowhere else. They are hearing the voices of our children. And they are listening. Americans are always outraged after a mass shooting, […]