Special to the Pioneer Times
HODGDON – Graduation dates will stay as is for Hodgdon High School seniors.
This season’s seemingly endless supply of snowy weather threatened to change the original June 3 date for commencement. But at the April 11 school board meeting Superintendent Bob McDaniel announced that graduation dates will not change.
McDaniel said seniors will work some weekends to keep graduation and its associated events scheduled as planned. For everyone else, school will be going a little longer this year because of the district’s five snow days. The last student day will be June 16; teachers’ last day will be June 17.
In other business, the SAD 70 school board approved the use of up to $3,000 for construction of a climbing wall at the high school.
Student surveys originally generated the idea for a climbing wall. Extensive research from students and staff helped create a plan for the project and hopes are that volunteers, grants and fundraisers will also push the project to completion in the near future. Funds OK’d by the board were left over after the district’s other sports equipment had been ordered. Total costs are estimated to be $5,500.
Also at the meeting, various employment contracts were approved. Two-year contract extensions were accepted for Mill Pond School Principal Loreen Wiley and Assistant Principal Mary Harbison. Other contracts were approved for Scott Kissinger, physical education teacher; Noel Pratt, math teacher; Elizabeth Conners, math teacher; and Hillary Medeiros, science teacher. Crystal Folsom was approved as an Ed Tech II in the district, as well as, middle school softball coach. Kissinger was approved as middle school baseball coach.
