WALES — Oak Hill High School will reopen Friday after Maine State Police and K-9 units searched the building Thursday morning because of a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall Wednesday. Regional School Unit 4 Superintendent Andrew Carlton sent out a note Thursday to parents saying the school would reopen Friday, but that all Thursday […]
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Oak Hill High School to be closed Thursday due to threat
[UPDATE: Oak Hill High School to reopen Friday after threat closed school] WALES — Oak Hill High School was evacuated Wednesday afternoon following a threat scrawled on a bathroom wall, school officials said. The school will be closed Thursday as a result. Regional School Unit 4 Superintendent Andrew Carlton wrote, in a message to parents: “This afternoon […]
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Turner, Leeds voters say yes, Greene says no; MSAD 52 budget passes
TURNER — SAD 52 residents passed the 2018-19 school budget on a 264-167 vote Friday night, according to Superintendent Kimberly Brandt. Voters in Turner and Leeds both passed the budget. Voters in Greene turned it down, but since the vote is cumulative among the three towns, the $27.36 million budget passed. “I am grateful that […]
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RSU 4 budget vote Wednesday
WALES — The Regional School Unit 4 board of directors will hold a hearing on the 2018-19 budget at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Oak Hill High School gym. The board is recommending a $19.1 million spending plan, which is $350,000 more than this fiscal year. It is a 1.87 percent increase. “Our goal this […]
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Wales man shot, killed by state trooper responding to domestic violence report
WALES — A man was shot and killed early Monday in a confrontation with a state trooper in the Androscoggin County town of Wales, according to Maine State Police. William N. Derick, 54, was fatally shot at his mobile home at 485 Pond Road, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said […]
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Micaela-Lynn M. Lagasse
WALES — Micaela-Lynn M. Lagasse, 15, of Wales returned home to be with the Lord on Friday, May 4. She was born in Lewiston on Oct. 26, 2002. She grew up in the Wales area and was currently attending Oak Hill High School in Sabattus. Micaela was a free-spirited, bright, funny and beautiful young girl who […]
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Margaret "Maggie" L. Scattoloni
AUBURN — Maggie Scattoloni of Wales died Monday, May 7, at the Hospice House in Auburn after struggling with chronic illness for several years. She was 83 years old. Maggie was born in Bangor, daughter of Alfred and Louise MacDonald, on Feb. 22, 1935. She grew up in Springfield, Mass., and graduated from the Hartford Hospital […]
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RSU 4 superintendent issues message in wake of suicide
WALES — Regional School Unit 4 Superintendent Andrew Carlton has advised parents that counseling services are being provided following the suicide of a student Friday. He offered the district’s sympathies to the student’s family and friends. “Because of our close school community, this death touches everyone,” Carlton wrote in a message to parents in Litchfield, […]
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Pallets burn at Wales business
WALES — Stacks of pallets 10 feet high burned at Mason Pallet Inc. on Leeds Junction Road on Wednesday afternoon, according to a Facebook post by the Wales Fire Department. There were no reports of injuries. Wales fire crews reported the blaze appeared to have been started as the result of a permitted burn. […]
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Oak Hill drama club take first in region, moving on to state
WALES — Oak Hill High School’s drama club, Little Theatre in the Woods, won first place in the Regional Class B One-Act Festival and will move to the state competition at Oceanside High School in Rockland on Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24. “Our?Place,” written by Terry Gabbard, takes place on a dock extending […]