The Community School District held a public forum Sept. 27 to discuss the potential costs and tax impacts of the Boothbay region school renovations and proposed new high school. According to the presentation, Boothbay residents would face the.
The Community School District school board and board of trustees have approved a referendum question around funding an $89 million project for the Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor schools by bond. The motion to approve the draft language took place during.
We all hoped the COVID-19 pandemic – which dominated the news for the second straight year – would end sometime in 2021; however, the end-of-the-year numbers for cases, hospitalizations and deaths have increased to record levels since March 2020.
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District boards met with Lavallee Brensinger architects Nov. 5 for the first time since January to discuss two concepts for the redesign of Boothbay Region Elementary and High schools. The firm was chosen in November 2019 to create a master plan for the two schools’ campus. March sessions never occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design principal Ron Lamarre and K-12 studio leader Lance Whitehead presented the $50 million and $60 million concepts, and several models and methods involving proposed layouts in a standard daily school schedule. Said Whitehead, “Today is about discussing the initial concepts and discussing what we learned from the early presentation, reviewing the scope of how we want to shape this and then giving us direction to keep this going …”