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Island Briefs
Seward vigil
BAR HARBOR In honor of Walter Seward, friends and relatives are invited to Waldron Road’s Glen Mary Pool for a vigil on Friday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. This event at Seward’s favorite pool will follow his celebration of life at the Bar Harbor Inn on April 10. Attendees should bring their own candles, chairs and refreshments. Masks will be required.
Small-Dollar campaign
BAR HARBOR For the month of April, the YWCA Mount Desert Island will be holding a Small-Dollar Donor campaign. Donations given to the general fund during this time will be matched up to $1,500 by the Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
School committee approves $7M budget for 2022
BAR HARBOR The Bar Harbor School Committee unanimously approved $7,152,378 for the 2022 Conners Emerson budget, which will head to voters in June, at its meeting on Monday. After a thorough review of the third draft, committee members decided to remove $50,000 for outdoor instruction from the budget before voting in favor of a proposed 7 percent increase.
With no guarantee of future pandemic conditions, the Conners Emerson staff has been discussing their budget for the fiscal year of 2022 since September. Principal Barb Neilly’s budget drafts were addressed at monthly committee meetings throughout the fall. At Monday’s virtual meeting, the budget draft was introduced by Neilly who said there were no changes to anything that had already been recommended, with the exception of a health insurance increase. “We did take into account an 8 percent projected rate for the Blue Cross Blue Shield across the board,” she sai