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BILL PEARSON Tue, 05/11/2021 - 12:45pm
It was a night filled with good-byes as two Edgecomb school officials participated in their final meeting with the current committee. Chairman Tom Abello is leaving the board after eight years. Principal Ira Michaud will head to Nobleboro Central School next fall. Michaud recounted during the May 10 committee meeting how Abello led major changes in Edgecomb Eddy School. “When I started four years ago, it was your first year as chairman. In that time, there have been a lot of new programs, agreements, and you absolutely shifted how this school operates.Your leadership has been awesome, and I appreciate how you stood up for the school,” he said.
SUSAN JOHNS Sat, 05/08/2021 - 8:45am
Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 plans to keep sending its pre-kindergarten Alna and Westport Island students to Edgecomb Eddy School past the 2023 end date of a pair of 2018 pacts with Edgecomb and Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District. In SVRSU’s Thursday night, May 6 board meeting and a phone interview the next day, Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle said the partnership works for everyone. And now Edgecomb wants to extend it, he said.
The board unanimously authorized Tuttle to extend it another five years. He said Friday, he did not know if the extension will run five years from now or five years from 2023, for a 2028 end date, but either way, he would take it.
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BILL PEARSON
Edgecomb Town Hall. File photo
For the second consecutive year, Edgecomb voters will decide municipal spending through a referendum election. Selectmen opted against a traditional town meeting due to coronavirus concerns, and voters will head to the polls May 21 to decide municipal and school budgets and elect town officers. On April 6, selectmen finalized a 60-article warrant. Polls are open from 1 to 7 p.m.
The proposed combined municipal and school budget is $4,917,732, a $95,315 increase or 1.98%. The Fiscal Year 22 school budget is $3,283,589, a 0.9% decrease. Lower education spending also translates to a lower local school assessment. That decreased from $2,569,806 in Fiscal Year 21 to $2,432,378 or a 5.3% drop.
BILL PEARSON Wed, 04/21/2021 - 12:00pm
Selectman Ted Hugger welcomes Edgecomb Eddy School Principal Ira Michaud during his first year as principal in 2017. File photo
The Edgecomb School Committee is looking for a new principal at Edgecomb Eddy School. Ira Michaud notified the committee April 13 he is leaving at the end of the school year, after serving as principal for four years, to become the new principal at Nobleboro Central School. On April 21, Michaud told the Boothbay Register he accepted the job.
“The biggest reason for leaving is this is another wonderful school,” he said. “Also I missed working with seventh and eighth graders, and this is also the district where I started my administrative career.” Michaud’s wife teaches and three children attend school in Alternative Organizational Structure 93.