POLAND A number of questions have been raised as Regional School District 16 has dealt with heating and ventilation system concerns at its three elementary schools. Questions include why the matter grew from a problem at Minot Consolidated School school last year into a $5.1 million bond proposal for all three schools; how much […]
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Graduate Kathryn Darling chats Friday with her boyfriend, Eelias Hesketh, on the tarmac at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport before the Poland Regional High School graduation.
Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
AUBURN As more than 100 Poland Regional High School students prepared to graduate Friday night, it was nearly impossible for anyone to forget it was happening at an airport.
Behind the parking area, as friends and family of the graduates huddled in and around their cars, a full-size plane loomed over all.
Around the stage, smaller airplanes were parked here and there, near bland hangars, and who could overlook that graduation was happening in the middle of a runway at Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport?
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It did not seem a big a deal last year when the Regional School Unit 16 board of directors decided it would not offer remote-only learning to students who did not have a solid reason for staying away from the classroom.
But it turns out the move pushed 74 students who had been on the district’s rolls to home-school, at least until the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control across Maine.
Because the district relies in large part on state aid based on the number of students in the three-town school district, officials learned this spring RSU 16, which enrolls students from Mechanic Falls, Minot and Poland, is losing almost $500,000 in aid this year.