PERU — Natalie Sneller and Kim Dailey explained to residents Tuesday night the costs and implications of Canton, Carthage, Peru and Dixfield forming their own school district. The four towns had formed School Administrative District 21, but merged with Regional School Unit 10 in 2011 under the mandated school consolidation law. A plan to leave RSU […]
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Hearing set on RSU 10 withdrawal effort
DIXFIELD — The Regional School Unit 10 board Monday night tentatively set a public hearing for July 7 on the effort of four towns to leave the district. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Dirigo Elementary School in Peru and board Chairman Bruce Ross of Dixfield will be facilitator. Committees from Canton, Carthage, Dixfield […]
Attorney: All former SAD 21 towns must vote to leave RSU 10, or ‘it doesn’t happen’
SUMNER — The lawyer for Regional School Unit 10, Dick Spencer, told the board that all four towns that once made up School Administrative District 21 must vote to pull out of the district in order for that to happen. “If any town chooses not to withdraw, then it doesn’t happen,” he said following a […]
Carthage board schedules public hearing on RSU 10 withdrawal
CARTHAGE — Selectmen have scheduled a public hearing for 7 p.m. Monday, May 11, at the Town Office on filing a petition to start the withdrawal process from Regional School Unit 10 and to take $8,000 from surplus to fund it. Selectman Steve Brown said Thursday that the board approved a petition Monday brought by […]
Assistant superintendent Gloria Jenkins resigns from RSU 10
DIXFIELD — Longtime assistant superintendent and curriculum coordinator Gloria Jenkins submitted her resignation to the Regional School Unit 10 board Monday night, effective at the end of the current school year. She is retiring from her position. Jenkins began her position as curriculum, instruction and assessment coordinator in 1999 with the former School Administrative District […]