2006
Draft budget for schools in Eastport cuts three positions
Union 104 Superintendent Arthur Wittine has presented a draft Eastport school budget that eliminates three full-time positions and makes $102,000 in cuts in other areas.
Education
2006
Plans to keep Boat School in city floated
With funding for the Boat School to remain in Eastport under the Maine Community College System appearing increasingly unlikely, supporters of the school are preparing for a plan that seeks the transfer of the school to the city.
2006
Boat School to stay afloat with Husson
Exactly 30 years to the month that the establishment of the Marine Trades Center in Eastport was announced, a new phase in the Boat School's life is taking shape.
2006
Whiting, Cutler, Machiasport set to form new school union
The Maine commissioner of education has given the communities of Cutler, Machiasport and Whiting permission to form a new school union. Susan Gendron, in a letter to MSAD 77 dated March 6, states that she has approved its dissolution agreement, which will become effective on July 1 of this year.
2006
Consolidation talk 'unconscionable,' says superintendent
At the March 7 meeting of the Eastport School Committee, Superintendent Arthur Wittine expressed his "extreme disappointment" about a meeting held recently in Baileyville to discuss the idea of consolidating the Eastport, Calais and Baileyville high schools.
2006
Wittine resigning as superintendent
School Union 104 Superintendent Arthur Wittine is resigning at the end of this school year to accept the superintendent's position for Union 93, which covers Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine and Penobscot.
2006
Small schools supporters rally, criticize state funding formula
Supporters of small schools in Maine have been pressing their case that the state's new funding formula is unfair in its distribution of funds to rural schools, as preliminary state subsidy figures were released last week.