Pre-K back in Tremont’s school budget
Pre-K and two additional teachers for the 2021-22 school year are part of the proposed FY22 school budget for Tremont Consolidated School.
Pre-K and two additional teachers for the 2021-22 school year are part of the proposed FY22 school budget for Tremont Consolidated School.
As of the end of February, the latest estimate to upgrade a portion of the Main Street sidewalk was $1.6 million. That amount is $400,000 more than last year’s estimate, according to an update given by interim town manager Dana Reed during the Feb. 23 Board of Selectmen meeting.
With the additional items of a pre-K program, window replacements for each stairwell and a new fifth-grade teacher position, the proposed FY22 budget for Pemetic Elementary School is expected to increase by 3.64 percent.
Emergency calls to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office in 2020 were up 1,300 over those in 2019. “This year was an unusual year,” said Chief Deputy Patrick Kane in a conversation with the Islander this week regarding the numbers from last year. “It’s really kind of across the board, in every area, calls for service are up.”
There have been a lot of changes at the Southwest Harbor Town Office in the last couple of months that are expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
As they continue to work out the procedural details of granting a local license to operate a marijuana retail store, members of the Southwest Harbor Board of Selectmen unanimously agreed on Tuesday night that the first application to go before the town was complete.
Owners of Acadia Wilderness Lodge are applying to build what looks to be the largest campground on the ‘quietside’ of Mount Desert Island on a 42-acre parcel off Tremont Road.
Without a clear idea of when her next opportunity will be to host an in-person tea party or to read aloud for Toddler Story Hour, children’s librarian Susan Plimpton has decided to retire after nearly a quarter of a century at the Southwest Harbor Public Library.
It has been four years since the idea of reconstructing a portion of Southwest Harbor’s Main Street sidewalk was first brought to selectmen by then Town Manager Don Lagrange.
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