Community Day will also allow RSU 5 families to receive donated back-to-school items
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Voters approve Freeport-area school budget
On Tuesday, Freeport, Durham and Pownal voters approved Regional School Unit 5’s proposed $37.3 million budget for the upcoming school year.
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Freeport graduates celebrate return to Merrill Auditorium
Freeport High School once again held its graduation ceremony at Merrill Auditorium in Portland Sunday morning after the pandemic forced the event outdoors the past two years.
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RSU 5 Superintendent’s Notebook: Time to say goodbye as one chapter ends, another begins
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” – Fred Rogers I never planned on a specific age of when to retire. As I began this school year, it seemed like it just might be the right year for it to be my last. And it […]
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RSU 5 Superintendent’s Notebook: COVID challenges far from over for students, teachers, parents
Maine reported its first COVID-19 case on March 12, 2020. This was followed in December 2021 with the omicron variant. Currently, the B2 variant is spreading throughout our schools. When the vaccines arrived in spring 2021, there was a sense of hope that the challenges of the virus would be over. Nothing is further from […]
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School board picks new principal for Pownal Elementary School
Holly Johnson will replace Lisa Demick, who is retiring after serving as principal for over a decade.
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Forum: One new RSU 5 family’s journey of hope
(Editor’s note: This guest column by Bonnie Violette, director of instructional support in RSU 5, is running in place of Superintendent’s Notebook by Becky Foley this month.) This month, RSU 5 welcomed new students from Angola, Congo and Nigeria. Their families traveled long distances to make the journey to the United States. I had the […]
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RSU 5 Superintendent’s Notebook: Welcoming asylum-seekers to RSU 5 with open arms
Even though many Americans move multiple times over the course of their lifetimes, nearly 72% of Americans live in or close to the place where they grew up, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For those of us who move farther away, we do so after much planning. We find a job, a place to […]
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RSU 5 Superintendent’s Notebook: Our bus drivers are valued links for schoolchildren
This past fall, a recent survey conducted by EdWeek Research Center indicated that 40% of district leaders reported they were experiencing “severe” or “very severe” staffing shortages. The most problematic shortage is the ever-needed role of bus drivers. Driver shortages are a nationwide problem. Bus routes in the state have been extended, drivers are working […]
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Freeport-area superintendent to retire at the end of school year
Becky Foley, the superintendent of Regional School Unit 5, will be retiring at the end of this school year, according to a community letter.