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MEXICO Region 9 School of Applied Technology’s proposed budget for 2021-22 represents a decrease of $2,314 to this year’s budget, according to school Director Brenda Gammon.
At a budget hearing last Thursday, Gammon provided reasons for why the proposed $2.3 million budget is less than current spending.
The Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico. The school enrolls students from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Dirigo High School in Dixfield and Telstar High School in Bethel.
Those reasons include removal of the school’s cooperative education program, a change made because all three of its partner high schools Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, Dirigo High School in Dixfield and Telstar High School in Bethel “have similar programs as to our cooperative education (program),” according to Gammon.
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Community activist Gary Dolloff, left, oversees volunteers Friday morning as they load furniture into a truck for an elderly couple moving from Rumford to New Hampshire. The couple reached out to town officials for help and their request was passed to Dolloff.
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RUMFORD Bruce Grant, a retired disabled veteran, and his wife, Pam, got their request for help to load their belongings into a moving truck Friday morning when volunteers showed up at their apartment on Penobscot Street.
The elderly couple had packed up as much as they could, but loading furniture and other items into a U-Haul truck was too much. They called town officials who passed their request to community activist Gary Dolloff.
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