BETHEL — Crescent Park Elementary School will add two pre-kindergarten classrooms for the 2018-19 school year if the proposed budget is approved by voters June 12, Principal Elaine Ferland said. The $11.32 million budget includes a 2.2 percent increase in local taxes, according to a budget review sent to SAD 44 voters by Superintendent David Murphy. […]
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Woodstock 4-H camp prepares for season
Sasha Lennon nails plastic on the end of a greenhouse in the middle of Alice’s Acres, a plot of land at the University of Maine 4-H Camp & Learning Center in Woodstock on Monday. The Bates College graduate is an AmeriCorps volunteer who teaches and does chores at the camp on Lake Christopher. In the […]
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School sign-up is announced ANDOVER — The Andover Elementary School pre-kindergarten and kindergarten sign-up is under way. Call 207-392-4381 for more information. Eagles to host Mountain Valley Kids Fest RUMFORD — The Rumford Eagles will host a Mountain Valley Kids Fest for Child Advocacy on Saturday, May 19, for the benefit of bettering the health, […]
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Woodstock school celebrates Dr. Seuss
Woodstock Elementary School secretary Cindy Bobbe greeted students dressed as “The Cat in the Hat” on Monday during a celebration of children’s author, Dr. Seuss, whose birthday was Friday, March 2. Bobbe plays the part every year. For a week there were designated days, including “Thing I and Thing II Day,” “Green Eggs and Ham […]
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SAD 44 school rankings announced to board
WOODSTOCK — A website that ranks schools based on student test scores has listed Telstar Regional High School next to last in the state, SAD 44 Director John Walker told the board Monday night. The rankings by SchoolDigger.com are based on test scores supplied by each state’s Department of Education, according to the website. Walker […]
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SAD 44 funding formula will remain the same
BETHEL — Voters in School Administrative District 44 towns Tuesday rejected changing the formula for sharing costs, according to Superintendent David Murphy. The tally from Bethel, Greenwood, Woodstock and Newry was 760-779. The measure failed by 19 votes. Newry voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new formula, 123-41. Bethel voted down the change, 374-427; Greenwood […]
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Woodstock man sentenced to 24 months in prison on trafficking charges
NOTE: Waiting on a mugshot from OCJ. PARIS — A Woodstock man pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court to two felony counts of trafficking in heroin and a single felony count of conspiracy to commit drug-trafficking. Brandon Blood, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison with all but 24 months suspended. Blood […]
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Starting a 'second life' with art and music
WOODSTOCK — When Monica Mann left her job at Wells Wood Turning in Buckfield this spring, her co-workers presented her with an unusual retirement gift: a brick of pottery clay. Although she had been working in the wood products industry for the past five years, Mann was about to return to her studio to resume […]
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Woodstock principal ends 38-year career
WOODSTOCK — Jolene Littlehale, an educator for 38 years and most recently principal of Woodstock Elementary School, retired from School Administrative District 44 at the end of this school year. Her passion for teaching started at age 5, she said. “My elementary teachers used to have me help other students in my class who were […]
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Headstone dedicated to Civil War vet in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK — George Lincoln Whitman was honored on Saturday at the South Woodstock cemetery, 105 years after his death, by several local veterans groups with a ceremony, flowers, flags and something he’d never had before — a headstone. Whitman was born in Paris in September 1834 and enlisted in the 23rd Maine volunteer infantry regiment, […]