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Read Article PARIS — Oxford Hills residents of School Administrative District 17 will get a chance to vote on a $43.9 million budget at a referendum scheduled for June 8. The Oxford Hills School Board budget represents a 2.32% increase from the current fiscal year. The proposed local assessment is 0.29%. The general purpose aid funds provided by Maine Department of Education is decreasing by $299,340. Two of the eight communities in the district, Harrison and Oxford, will see slight decreases in their overall expense of -2.2% and 0.82% respectively. The other six will increase from 0.25% (...

Many people in the valley may know Debbie Keetch and some of you may not, but many of your children may know her very well as she taught school at Paris Elementary and then at the Middle School for 41 years! Debbie was born and raised most of her childhood in Dingle. She went to school in Bear Lake until her senior year at Bear Lake High School, but when the Railroad depot went out her family had to move to Pocatello. At that point, Debbie finished her senior year and graduated from Highland High School there. A year after graduation, she married her high school sweetheart, Dan Keetch, and th...

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and blue pinwheels and signs can be seen in several places round the valley in recognition of this important month. The State of Idaho created an Initiative for Child Abuse Month and made pinwheels available to plant as pinwheel "gardens" to reflect support for Child Abuse Month. Bear Lake School District supported the Initiative by having the 5th graders at AJ Winters, Paris Elementary, and Georgetown Elementary, as well as the Middle School and High School, plant pinwheel "gardens" in front of the schools. They also placed signs at the schools reflecti...

Read Article REGION — In recent years recruitment and retention for police departments in Maine and across the U.S. has become more and more of a challenge. In Franklin and Oxford counties, local forces have fared a little better than more urban communities. But the pandemic has stalled high school and college law enforcement education, as well as the residential certifications sessions held twice a year at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. The academy’s programming remained in limbo for months as public gathering and social distancing restrictions made it impossible to o...

Read Article OXFORD HILLS — Despite being part of Maine Department of Education’s county-wide yellow designation, SAD 17 continues to maintain safe spaces within its schools. As of Dec. 15, the district website lists 12 students or staff having confirmed cases of COVID-19. None of those cases have been detected as spreading within the schools themselves. One school, Paris Elementary, is currently closed and fully remote because there are not enough available educators and staff to support in person learning. Overall, the number of students and staff in quarantine is 80, up slightly from ...