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• Families line up for food donations (The Daily Mail)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 07:31:37 am
  CAIRO — In a matter of hours Saturday morning, 150 families of the Cairo-Durham School District flocked to the Cairo Food Pantry at Resurrection Lutheran Church on Route 23B to pick up their Thanksgiving dinners.
• Motel owners bristle over campaign brochure (The Daily Mail)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 07:16:59 am
  DURHAM — A spectre of the recent election campaign haunts a local business, and the owners Friday said that enough is enough. “If this happened to you, it could happen to anyone in the town,” said Erin’s Melody Inn owner Richard Garvin about a campaign flyer depicting the Inn as a local flophouse.
• School absenteeism fluctuates during flu surge (The Times Record)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 02:57:05 am
  BRUNSWICK — As vaccine for the H1N1 flu continues to stream into the state, the virus continues to spread and the Maine Center for Disease Control reported the state’s third death from complications of H1N1 on Thursday.
• RSU 5 braces for deep aid cuts (The Times Record)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 12:20:02 am
  FREEPORT — Officials in Regional School Unit 5 — the district that encompasses Freeport, Dur-ham and Pownal — are bracing for a drastic cut in state aid to education for the current year. School officials fear they’ll have to cut approximately $650,000 from the budget crafted to pay the new regional district’s expenses between now and June 30, 2010.
• School absentee rates slightly elevated (The Daily Mail)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 02:16:18 pm
  GREENE COUNTY — Amid rumors that flu-like-symptoms and other indicators of illnesses have driven many students in Greene County to stay home from school, absence rates are only slightly higher than usual, school administrators reported Wednesday.
• Halloween prep (Chico Enterprise-Record)
  posted on October 31, 2009 at 07:17:06 am
  Kindergartners in Cyndi Haaphnen's afternoon class at Durham Elementary School trick or treat at downtown Durham businesses Friday.
• C-D school board denies 2 posts (The Daily Mail)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 02:31:48 am
  CAIRO — The Cairo-Durham School Board has voted to reject two personnel items. As the discussion took place in executive session, board members and administrators declined to discuss the reasons for the rejections.
• A simple plan for saving energy (The Daily Mail)
  posted on September 27, 2009 at 01:46:28 am
  Lonnie Palmer of Energy Education explains how the school district could save money on energy. Photo by Dave Gordon. CAIRO — Saving energy can involve installing more efficient heating systems, increasing insulation and replacing windows with more efficient units.
• DSG elects six to SOFC, reviews art on campus (The Chronicle)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 01:59:18 pm
  Six candidates have been elected to the Student Organization Finance Committee for this academic year. At its meeting Wednesday night, Duke Student Government selected senior Andrew Lyu, freshmen Alikiah Barclay and Chris Paluch, and juniors Herng Lee, June Whan Choi and Andrew Hollar.
• District hires new officials (Register-Star)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 06:19:46 am
  The Hudson City School District has two new members as of Monday night, an assistant principal for Hudson High School and a new safety officer. The Board of Education hired Herbert Tedford III as the high school assistant principal, replacing Mark Brenneman, the new Intermediate School principal.
• District names principal (Register-Star)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 06:19:28 am
  After a summer long administrative search, the Hudson City School District has hired in-house for its M. C. Smith Intermediate School principal and associate principal. The board made its decision at Monday night’s board of education meeting.
• Kusminsky elected C-D president (The Daily Mail)
  posted on September 1, 2009 at 05:40:53 am
  Beth Phillips of the Cairo-Durham Booster Club presents school board president Susan Kusminsky with a $2,000 check for new school banners. David Gordon/Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
• Kusminsky re-elected Cairo-Durham school board president (The Daily Mail)
  posted on August 31, 2009 at 06:26:33 am
  Beth Phillips of the Cairo-Durham Booster Club presents school board president Susan Kusminsky with a $2,000 check for new school banners. Dave Gordon/For Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
• Dream comes true in Durham: Courtyard nearing completion at elementary school (Chico Enterprise-Record)
  posted on August 24, 2009 at 07:09:04 am
  DURHAM -- Sometime in the next month or so a 15-year-plus dream will come true in the courtyard of the Durham Elementary School.
• Having fun, working hard (The Times Record)
  posted on August 7, 2009 at 06:21:22 pm
  At the start of the summer, about two dozen Brunswick-area student/athletes and one girls ice hockey coach signed up for “an unknown journey,” as organizer/mentor Don Crane likes to say.
• Tuesday vote set on RSU 5 budget (The Times Record)
  posted on July 27, 2009 at 06:19:40 pm
  FREEPORT — Regional School Unit 5’s school budget will be up for review again on Tuesday during a budget validation referendum for voters in Freeport, Durham and Pownal.
• Baumgartner takes helm at Durham school (The Daily Mail)
  posted on July 15, 2009 at 02:43:22 pm
  Durham Elementary School has a new principal. Tom Baumgartner, currently the principal of the Greenport Elementary School in the Hudson School District, has been appointed.
• Ex-teacher's aide facing new charges (WRAL.com Raleigh)
  posted on July 6, 2009 at 12:30:15 am
  A former teacher's assistant at a Durham elementary school faces obstruction of justice charges for allegedly contacting a student with whom she is accused of having sex.
• Cairo-Durham graduates 136 (The Daily Mail)
  posted on June 28, 2009 at 01:46:15 am
  DURHAM — Parents and friends of the 136 graduating seniors of the Cairo-Durham High School Class of 2009 gathered Saturday afternoon to witness the culmination of the students’ high school careers.
• Voters In RSU 5 Head To Polls For School Budget Vote (WMTW Auburn)
  posted on June 25, 2009 at 11:27:26 am
  Voters in the towns of Freeport, Durham and Pownal will head to the polls Thursday to vote on the school budget for RSU 5.
• Durham moms question board’s teacher moves (The Daily Mail)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 06:16:24 am
  CAIRO — Several mothers of Durham Elementary School children asked the Cairo-Durham Board of Education Thursday night why some teacher assignments between the district’s two elementary schools have been changed for the forthcoming 2009-10 school year.
• Memorial Day events being held around region (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 07:30:32 am
  Freeman staff MEMORIAL Day events —including parades and remembrance ceremonies — will he held in communities around the region today and Saturday.
• Communities throughout region holding Memorial Day events (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 01:01:13 am
  MEMORIAL Day events — including parades and remembrance ceremonies — will be held in communities around the region today, Monday and next Saturday.
• Communities in four counties to hold Memorial Day events (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 23, 2009 at 07:32:03 am
  Editor's note: This list was updated at 1 p.m. Saturday to include the parade in Hurley, which was omitted from the original posting.
• Six seek two seats on Cairo-Durham board (Kingston Daily Freeman)
  posted on May 15, 2009 at 10:54:26 pm
  CAIRO — Six candidates, two of whom are incumbents, are vying for three seats on the Cairo-Durham Board of Education in Tuesday’s election.
• Despite community support, DUSD votes not to rehire ag teacher (Chico Enterprise-Record)
  posted on May 13, 2009 at 07:10:24 am
  DURHAM -- Apparently unmoved by hours of testimony in support of a probationary ag teacher, the Durham Unified School District board of trustees voted not to renew her contract for the coming year.
• Citizen patrol hopes to slow rise in crime (Chico Enterprise-Record)
  posted on May 11, 2009 at 07:09:43 am
  DURHAM -- Concerned about what they perceive to be increasing crime in their community, a group of citizens have formed the Durham Patrol.
• Durham Destination ImagiNation team headed to Global Finals (Portland Tribune)
  posted on April 16, 2009 at 07:05:42 pm
  Durham Elementary School’s Destination ImagiNation team, The 5 Musketeers, took first place at the DI state tournament in Corvallis April 4. The team also received special recognition — the Renaissance Award — for their creative set building and use of materials. The ...
• Lines are drawn over Carroll bond proposal (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  posted on April 8, 2009 at 05:29:37 am
  Groups lobby for and against the $138 million plan for new schools and capital projects.
• Voters snip Durham budget (The Times Record)
  posted on April 6, 2009 at 05:55:26 pm
  DURHAM — Voters at Saturday's town meeting approved a $2,460,628.59 municipal budget after whipping through 48 warrant articles in three-and-a-half hours at the annual exercise in democracy at Durham Elementary School.