Gardiner-area bus driver to retire after 50 years
Barbara Astbury has driven three generations to school in Maine School Administrative District 11 in her career as a bus driver.
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Retired bus driver Barbara Astbury is greeted by some of the students she drove during retirement party Tuesday at the MSAD 11 bus depot in Gardiner. Astbury had driven the kid’s parents in West Gardiner too during her 50-year career.
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Then, she took a panel truck, later switching to her father’s car.
It wasn’t until fourth grade she would take a school bus, not knowing at the time the impact it would have on her later in life.
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