Assistant principal hired for SeDoMoCha

By Stuart Hedstrom
Staff Writer     

DOVER-FOXCROFT — With the current academic year nearing a conclusion at the end of the month, the administrative positions for 2015-16 are being set. During a school board meeting on June 16 the directors approved motions to set the salaries for the returning administrators.

The SeDoMoCha School assistant principal position needed to be filled with Matthew Lokken departing after three years to become principal of the K-8 Blue Hill Consolidated School. After a seven-minute executive session, the school board voted to extend a contract to Nathan Dyer.

Dyer spent the previous school year as the Milo Elementary School principal. The RSU 68 directors voted unanimously to extend a one-year contract to Dyer at a salary of $57,300 and 210 days for the 2015-16 school year.

Earlier in the meeting, Superintendent Robert Lucy said Amy Fagan-Cannon, who had taught grade 7 English/language arts (ELA) for the last four years, applied for and was approved to transfer to the new grade 6 social studies position. This fourth- through sixth-grade position was added for next year and is included in the budget approved by district residents earlier in the month.

Fagan-Cannon began her SeDoMoCha Middle School teaching career instructing grade 7 social studies. Lucy said a new grade 7 ELA instructor will now be sought.

He also said on June 17, the last day of classes with students dismissed at 11:30 a.m., a retirement reception was scheduled for third-grade teacher Linda Johnston. Lucy said Johnston “has been here 38 years and touched a lot of lives.”