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SAD 44 resident approve a $9.99 million budget
BETHEL — With little discussion, about 50 residents from SAD 44’s five member towns unanimously approved the proposed 2012-13 operating budget of $9,989,269. The approved figure is $261,969, or 2.69 percent, higher than the current year’s budget. Residents from Bethel, Andover, Newry, Woodstock and Greenwood will now decide in their individual towns whether to accept […]
N. Willard: Support love, not hate
We have heard it before and here it is again: Paul Madore insists that because gays are asking for equal rights they are requesting “special treatment.” If others already have the right to marry, how can it be considered “special” to request that same right? It is no different than asking for equal pay for […]
SAD 44 proposed budget moves to vote
BETHEL — The SAD 44 board signed the 2012-13 budget warrant Monday night and set the first of two votes for 7 p.m. May 29 at the Helen C. Berry Auditorium at Telstar High School. Superintendent David Murphy said residents of the five district towns will vote on 16 articles that comprise the proposed $9,989,269 […]
SAD 44 board adopts a $10 million school budget proposal
BETHEL — The SAD 44 board unanimously adopted proposed 2012-13 operating budgets of $9,989,269 for general education and $157,866 for adult and a community education Monday night. There will be a district-wide town-meeting-style vote on the budgets at 7 p.m., May 29, at the Helen C. Berry Auditorium of Telstar High School. Superintendent David Murphy […]
Woodstock man sentenced for stealing, burning car
PARIS — A Woodstock man will serve a year and 90 days for his role in stealing and setting fire to a car in West Paris last year. Carl Richard Lang, 22, pleaded guilty to theft, burglary of a motor vehicle and aggravated criminal mischief Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court. He’ll serve another year […]
Much loved Woodstock Elementary School secretary to retire
WOODSTOCK — Queda Billings believes she was put on this earth for a reason. One of those reasons may be the comfort, safety and security she provides by just sitting in her secretary’s chair when a nervous young parent brings in her kindergartner for the first time. Chances are, that young parent went to Woodstock […]
Fans say goodbye: Wake held for Levon Helm at musician’s Woodstock home
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — There was a reunion, of sorts, at Woodstock on Thursday. Musicians, friends and fans gathered in the board-and-batten barn where Levon Helm staged his Midnight Ramble concerts to remember the influential singer and drummer for The Band, who died of throat cancer last week at age 71. Nearly 2,000 people attended his […]
Proposed SAD 44 budget up 2.69 percent
BETHEL — The SAD 44 Finance Committee presented the full board Monday with a proposed $9.98 million budget that is $261,969 more than this fiscal year. The 2012-13 spending plan is 2.69 percent higher than this year, Superintendent David Murphy said. There is addition state aid, $325,000 carried over because of a mild winter and […]
N. Willard: Showing no compassion
It is obvious that Gov. Paul LePage has a narrow-minded and exclusive focus on business to the exclusion of history. The labor murals that tell the story of the struggles of men working 10 hours and six days per week, the children in sweatshops, the farmers, the fishermen, the Rosie the Riveters of World War […]