WESTPORT When more activities began opening up last summer, the school district’s extended day program was the first to offer a summer camp.
Fast forward a year later and this once little-known program has 60 children signed up for its daily summer program, a summer waiting list and youngsters signing up for the fall before and after school care sessions.
“It has taken off,” said program director Jennifer Chaves. “It’s been a really exciting thing for the community.”
Chaves said that the program has been in existence for several years but has grown in popularity the last few years. She said it is one of the few communities in the state to offer child care before and after school, as well as a summer program.
Westport considering town sites for central business office
Jeffrey D. Wagner
WESTPORT The town will be getting a new junior/senior high school building on Old County Road later this year, but no decision has been made yet for where the business office will be located.
Right now, the main candidates include keeping the central business office in a portion of the current high school on Main Road or moving the offices to the modular building adjacent to the Macomber Primary School. That building is used for grade 2 classrooms and other Macomber programs. Grade 2 will move back to the Westport Elementary School later this fall when the junior/senior high school opens up. WES will then return to a grades 1 through 4 building.