Education

On the evening of August 4 the Robbinston school board struggled to come up with $67,933 in cuts to the school system budget. The board was required to do so by the town's voters at the July 28 budget referendum vote that saw townspeople uphold the budget that had been reduced.

Robbinston School Committee Chair Tom Critchley is not confident that the local grade school could be kept open this coming year if voters approve the school budget at the Monday, July 28, budget validation vote.

The end result of two hours of discussion by the Eastport School Committee at a meeting on June 24 was to cut $36,000 from its budget of the $100,000 requested by the city budget committee.

In a lopsided referendum, Lubec voters have rejected plans to demolish the shuttered high school wing of the Lubec Consolidated School.

At a non-binding referendum on June 15, Robbinston voters showed -- by a vote of 110 to 80 -- that they would support closure of the Robbinston Grade School and the tuitioning of all students to Calais.

Ann Luginbuhl, an educator at the Charlotte Elementary School, has been awarded the 2014 County Teachers of the Year Award for Washington County. In February, 376 Maine teachers were nominated for consideration for the award, with one teacher from each of the 16 counties selected.