SANGERVILLE —Time is running out for local school districts to avoid a financial penalty for failing to consolidate. This has prompted a Sangerville school director to begin urging town officials and residents to support a measure for  SAD 4  to join an Alternative Organizational Structure.

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SCHOOL DISCUSSION — SAD 4 director Ron Labonte urged the selectmen on Aug. 26 to promote the school district forming an Alternative Organizational Structure with neighboring SADs 41 and 68. Labonte requested that the selectmen attend a board workshop titled “Reorganization of System Administration” to discuss whether SAD 4 should consolidate with neighboring school districts. The school board will vote on the proposal at its meeting at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Sept. 14 in the Piscataquis Community Secondary School cafeteria.

SANGERVILLE —Discussions about the potential cost for repairing one mile of gravel roads resulted in a resident stating his opposition on Aug. 26 to the proposed project. Brent Randall urged the selectmen to reconsider spending up to $100,000 for repairing one mile of gravel roads because “it was out-of-line compared to last year’s maintenance costs.”

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ROAD WARRIOR — Resident Brent Randall urged Sangerville officials on Aug. 26 not to spend nearly $100,000 to repair a mile’s worth of gravel roads this fall. The selectmen are expected to open bids on Aug. 31 on repairing a one-mile section of the Brockway Mills and Burroughs roads. The bid specifications were recommended by Maine Department of Transportation consultant Phil Curtis who estimates it will cost $100,000 per mile to repair the town’s most troublesome gravel roads.

Bus 2 driver Roger Cyr Sangerville/Guilford: Flanders Hill Road at 7 Gray Road at 7:02 East Sangerville Grange Road at 7:10 Line Road at 7:18  McNaughton Hill Road at 7:27 Doughty Hill Road at 7:28 Mill St. at 7:42 School St. at 7:43- Pleasant Ave. at 7:45 Oak St. at 7:52- PCSS/PCES at 7:58.  

SANGERVILLE — Boaters requested in July that the selectmen create more parking space at the Center Pond boat landing. Center Pond residents — fearing that the town would make wholesale changes  to the popular site —attended the Aug. 10 meeting encouraging the board to keep everything the way it is.

ROAD RANGER — Maine Department of Transportation consultant Phil Curtis presented the Sangerville selectmen with a report on Aug. 10 about the scope of work needed to repair three of the town’s most troublesome gravel roads. Curtis is known as the department’s “Road Ranger” because he provides a free consultation service to towns. He estimated it would cost about $100,000 per mile to repair the Knowlton Mills, Burroughs and Brockway Mills roads.