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SUSAN JOHNS Wed, 05/12/2021 - 8:30am
Is regularly pool-testing students and adults for COVID–19 doable, and could it help prevent spread? Wiscasset School Committee listened and asked questions Tuesday night, May 11 as staff nurse Marilyn Sprague explained the program she said the state is encouraging. After hearing Sprague’s answers and Wiscasset Middle High School Assistant Principal-Athletic Director Warren Cossette’s support for the idea, the committee gave Sprague the go-ahead.
According to the discussion, if the department went through with the pool testing, it would likely start next fall, the department would first be charged $185 for a waiver involving the lab testing; classes or other pools of students and adults would, unless they opt out, take nasal samples with swabs that would then go to Boston for testing, the department would have results within 24 hours, and any positives would mean more testing to find who it was. Pool testing aims to detect a cas
At the April 13 Wiscasset School Committee meeting, the committee accepted two new hires, including the new principal for Wiscasset Elementary School. Superintendent Terry Wood said Kathleen Pastore comes from Massachusetts, has owned a home in New.
Wed, 01/06/2021 - 8:45am
A request for a ballot question to weigh the financial benefits of tuitioning high school students was put on hold Jan. 5 until the Wiscasset select board can discuss the proposal with school officials. A tentative meeting date is set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 over Zoom.
Passions ran high Jan. 5 when the select board took up the request to form an exploratory committee or ask voters’ approval for one. Former selectman Judith Colby and budget committee member William Maloney made the request in lieu of a petition. A copy was included in the select board’s supporting documents.
Wiscasset selectmen to take up citizens’ request Tuesday night
SUSAN JOHNS Thu, 12/31/2020 - 6:30am
A cleared walkway along the front of the Wiscasset municipal building Jan. 5, 2018. File photo
Bill Maloney and Judith Colby do not know if Wiscasset would save or lose money tuitioning out its high school students. No one knows, they said in phone interviews Wednesday. And if it happened, both said they would want the town to go into it knowing the numbers. So the two are asking selectmen to ask voters next June for a committee to do the math.
“What’s the impact on money from the federal and state government; transportation costs of sending children, are they going to be accepted at say Bath or Lincoln Academy? There’s a lot of loose ends,” said Maloney, who serves on the budget committee and served on the downtown project’s public advisory committee. “So, if you get this stuff out of the way before, then if someone wants to eliminate the high school, yo