The $47.7 million spending plan, up $4.2 million from this year’s school budget, is now under review by the school board’s Finance Committee.
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New year could bring evictions for many renters in Westbrook
More than 200 Westbrook households and hundreds of asylum seekers will be impacted when federal rent assistance ends.
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Poitras returning to Westbrook School Committee for fourth term
Noreen Poitras handily defeated her challenger, Flynn Ross, 751-532.
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Poitras, Ross vie for Westbrook Ward 3 school board seat
Two candidates are hoping to land a three-year term on the School Committee in Westbrook’s Ward 3 race in the city’s election next month. Three-term incumbent Noreen Poitras is facing challenger Flynn Ross, a school and community volunteer. Poitras, 55, is frustrated with the state’s formula for funding school districts, while Ross says Westbrook schools […]
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Youth descended on Westbrook police station Saturday where Black juvenile taken
A crowd also confronted police officers at Together Days at Riverbank Park where the juvenile was suspected of fighting.
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Stricter cellphone policy for Westbrook Middle School starts in fall
The School Committee votes 6-1 on the changes that will impact seventh graders next year and eighth graders the year after that.
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Westbrook council gives preliminary approval to city, school budgets
After a final vote, the school budget will still need to be approved by voters June 14.
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Cell phone ban considered for all grade levels at Westbrook Middle School
The Westbrook School Committee will discuss the potential crackdown on May 9.
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Proposed budget nudges up Westbrook property tax bills 1.5%
City revenue growth helps offset the increases in both the municipal and school budgets.
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Inadequate hot water system to be fixed at Westbrook High School
The school will be closed this summer so the repairs and other scheduled work can be completed.