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PublishedMay 31, 2023
Kennebec County Teacher of the Year gives students a chance to restore alewife harvest in Gardiner
Sharon Gallant and her Gardiner Area High School students have worked with a local nonprofit for five years to collect data on the fish often used as lobster bait in hopes they can help bring the commercial harvesting industry back to the city.
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PublishedMay 20, 2023
Culinary arts students at Augusta-based technical center learn by running school’s food trailer
Chef Heidi Parent strives to be innovative with her culinary arts program, including using COVID-19 pandemic relief funding to buy a food trailer for her students to run.
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PublishedMay 18, 2023
Gardiner officials debate additional spending for property revaluation in city spending plan
City Councilor Terry Berry wants to see funding for a citywide revaluation pushed up the priority list, but infrastructure projects not included in the city's proposed budget are also emerging priorities.
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PublishedMay 5, 2023
Gardiner-area school board passes $30.1 million budget
The spending plan includes a 13% increase to the local share, driven by rising town valuations, salary increases and higher costs of necessary expenses like transportation for students with special services.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2023
Augusta-area school districts plan to use new funding from state to lessen taxpayer burden
Though most school budgets are still being finalized, officials have signaled their intent to use funding from the state's recent calculation error to reduce the amount they must ask municipalities to raise through taxes.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2023
Gardiner-area principal to step down, with director of remote learning academy taking reins in July
Lauren Arnold, who is currently director of Western Maine Remote Academy, was hired Tuesday night by the MSAD 11 board of directors to replace Principal Chad Kempton, who held the job for about 20 years.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2023
Pittston residents to vote on $1.6 million budget at annual Town Meeting
The annual Town Meeting is Saturday at Pittston Randolph Consolidated School and will be followed by a municipal election Monday at the Pittston Town Office.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2023
Winthrop school board raises substitute ed tech pay by $30 a day to attract workers
The move to match the $130-a-day rate substitute teachers are paid makes Winthrop Public Schools among the highest-paying district in the Augusta area for substitute education technicians.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2023
School meals served on remote learning days will now be reimbursed by the state
The news could be a boon to central Maine districts that were facing thousands of dollars of unbudgeted expenses or ending the school year in late June.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
School until late June or thousands of dollars in unbudgeted expenses?
Districts, including those based in Augusta, Gardiner and Winthrop, are no longer reimbursed for providing students meals on remote learning days, complicating efforts to reschedule missed hours of instruction.
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