Dirigo High News Today

To achieve a 5% increase from this year’s budget of $13.56 million, a reduction of $64,437, the district might cut middle and high school Nordic skiing, middle school clubs such as Speech and Debate, Technology Club, winter cheering teams, discontinue online streaming of board directors’ meetings, and cut an athletic director assistant position, among other cuts.

In April 2023, the board voted to rescind its March 21 vote to build private bathroom stalls at the high school, citing a lack of support and negative responses from the community.

PERU — Jenna Leigh Gordon of Peru, the daughter of Philip Bowman and Stephanie Miles of Turner, and Jason Harold Packard, also of Peru, the son of Stephen and Grace Packard of Peru, announce their engagement. The future bride is a Class of 1998 graduate of Dirigo High School. She is currently enrolled in the […]

Regional School Unit 56 board director Tina Courtway of Peru told the board of directors at their meeting at Dirigo High School on Tuesday that enforcement of the dress code policy adopted last April “needs to be brought to priority.”

Carl Lueders of Canton was elected vice chairman.

Featured on a banner atop the state seal, the state motto was born out of a mysterious committee process led by a prominent Waldoboro politician who opposed statehood.

Students recognized come from Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford counties.

THOMASTON — Veronica “Roni” McKay, 62, peacefully gave up her two-year battle with cancer, while surrounded by the love of her family at home, Monday, March 27, 2023.

THOMASTON — Veronica ‘Roni’ McKay, 62, peacefully gave up her two year battle with cancer, while surrounded by the love of her family at home, Monday, March 27, 2023. Born in Rumford, December 20, 1960, she was the daughter of Irving and Meredith...

During a board of directors meeting in October Superintendent and Principal of Dirigo High School Pam Doyen said some students were upset by others using bathrooms of their choice.