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On Tuesday, June 8, voters will consider five candidates vying for two open seats on the Gouldsboro Board of Selectmen. Selectman Cheri Robinson is not seeking re-election while incumbent Chris Urquhart is running for another three-year term.
RSU 24 Board approves school budget, capital improvement campaign proposed
SULLIVAN The Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) Board of Directors unanimously approved the proposed $18.2 million budget for the 2021-22 school year at its May 4 meeting.
On May 26, there will be a public hearing for voters in the school district to ask questions about the budget and the budget development process. Then, on June 8, a budget referendum will be held in each of the district’s towns, which are Eastbrook, Franklin, Gouldsboro, Mariaville, Sorrento, Steuben, Sullivan, Waltham and Winter Harbor.
The proposed budget is a 5 percent increase from the current budget, due largely to the $721,416 debt service incurred from the construction of the new Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus, the grades-6-through-12 school currently being built behind Sumner Memorial High School.
Positive COVID-19 cases within RSU 24
STEUBEN Positive COVID-19 cases have affected several schools within Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24) since last week.
Students at the Ella Lewis School attended classes remotely on Friday after an individual associated with the school tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a May 6 letter from RSU 24 Superintendent Michael Eastman, three staff members and 23 students were initially required to quarantine and be out of the building until May 17. Then, in a May 10 letter, Eastman said the school received updated information from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stating the school could “lift the quarantine status for those individuals that were impacted by the positive test. All Ella Lewis students and staff that were impacted will be welcomed back into the building tomorrow, May 11.” The letter also states that the Ella Lewis School shares no connection to a positive case detected at a local daycare center.
School custodian gets surprise send-off
STEUBEN Before classes ended last Friday, John Brooks made his final rounds at Ella Lewis School. Intent on his work, the custodian busily tidied and restocked already spotless bathrooms ahead of students being released for spring break.
Pushing his wheeled metal cart, he carried out other tasks along the gleaming hallways. Pausing in the gym, where students were to be recognized for academic achievement, the maintenance man leaned against his workshop’s doorway to listen. But all eyes turned to him.
“I have to admit that I have been somewhat dishonest about our school-wide assembly today,” Ella Lewis School Principal Jackson Green said, addressing Brooks, who will take over on April 26 as Regional School Unit 24’s new supervisor of maintenance for its five schools. “Today is not a school-wide assembly to recognize our amazing student achievement or growth. Today is not about recognizing our improved attendance rate, of which I