East Lyme The Board of Finance after lengthy deliberations approved a proposed $77.99 million budget that officials hope will put the town in a good position as it slowly emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
If the spending plan makes it intact through a public hearing on Monday and a budget referendum in May, there will be one new police officer and numerous new teachers to help the town face the realities of the 2021-22 fiscal year.
The proposal designates $52.21 million for education, $19.38 million for general government, $5.72 million for debt service and $683,113 for capital. It represents a total increase of 2.37% over the current budget.
Brian Lee at Maine Medical Partners in otolaryngology in Biddeford,
Heidi Miller at Maine Medical Partners in the Casco Bay surgical care unit,
Eric Shurtleff at Maine Medical Partners in the division of acute care surgery, and
Josh Vaughn at Maine Medical Partners in orthopedics and sports medicine, a division of orthopedic trauma and fracture care.
Landry/French Construction in Scarborough hired
Bert Kiesow as project development executive. Kiesow has 25 years of experience in construction management.
Maine Community Foundation in Ellsworth hired
Michele Camarco as vice president of finance and CFO. Camarco was previously director of finance and operations at Alpha Gamma Delta Fraternity Inc. in Indianapolis.
7 hours ago in Education, Local Photo: WHCU
ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) A Moravia school principal is on paid administrative leave, and he doesn’t know why.
Bruce MacBain has spent three decades working in the Moravia Central School District. Last month he was placed on paid leave for reasons, according to him, never disclosed by the school board.
MacBain posted on his Facebook page he hasn’t done anything immoral, adding there was no hint or warning from the district. He became principal of the middle and high school last spring.
On the district’s website, John Birmingham is now listed as interim principal. MacBain has been on paid administrative leave since March 11th.
Last year around this time I was cheerfully writing about the great upcoming art exhibitions, dance concerts and plays scheduled for the spring: paintings at the UA’s Joseph Gross gallery by a talented young Liberian refugee; a modern dance in Reid Park by the up-and-coming Hawkinsdance troupe; and an Irish play by acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh at the Rogue Theatre.
I didn’t see any of them. They were all shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.
Things are getting better now, we hope. The vaccine has arrived and this miracle drug just may bring us back to life eventually.
Our year of living dangerously
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Essays
Ed., Tanya Plibersek
NewSouth, $32.99
Commissioned, composed and compiled to the unforgiving deadline of history unfolding, these two books of Australian essays address the rolling emergencies confronting the world through 2020.
Fire Flood Plague collects the thoughts of Australian writers on climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Upturn: A Better Normal, edited by Tanya Plibersek, offers views and vision statements from former Labor politicians, community and industry leaders and policy wonks about Australia’s challenges in every significant area of public life, using the calamity of 2020 as an inflection point.