Emergency state aid for Bath elementary school damaged in fire unlikely this year
A state Board of Education committee declined to recommend emergency funding to rebuild the Dike Newell School.
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A state Board of Education committee declined to recommend emergency funding to rebuild the Dike Newell School.
Bath-area school officials prefer to build a new school that would combine students from the burned-down Dike Newell School and another elementary school.
Rural Bath residents want to build a $1.6 million fiber-optic network to connect 500 homes and businesses.
Brunswick public schools and Regional School Unit 1 are among dozens of school districts across the state that were underfunded by $42 million.
The Regional School Unit 1 budget would increase the tax burden from Bath, Arrowsic, Phippsburg and Woolwich by a combined 3.54%, lower than surrounding districts.