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Volume 23, Number 7
Friday, May 17, 2019
BoE vote seats new member By Bailey Wright Town Times
Students who participated in this year's Memorial Middle School Trout in the Classroom program pose for a photo after releasing the fish at Wadsworth State Park on May 10. | Bailey Wright, Town Times
Middle school students release trout they raised By Bailey Wright Town Times
School “Trout Club” or Trout in the Classroom program.
In a bittersweet moment Friday, May 10 about 15 Memorial Middle School students said goodbye to the 180 trout they’d been raising since the start of the year.
“They were definitely looking forward to this day. There were a few tears this morning ... since (the trout) have been in the classroom since January, it's really been a part of our classroom,” said special education teacher Mike McGrady, who coordinated the program this year.
The fifth and sixth-graders traveled to Wadsworth State Park and with help from a few Trout Unlimited volunteers, released the fish one by one into the stream. The students were part of this year’s Memorial
Trout Unlimited supplies the equipment and the eggs. These usually arrive midSee Trout, A10
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About 200 trout raised by the Memorial Middle School Trout in the Classroom program wait to be released on May 10. | Bailey Wright, Town Times
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road, but I feel if we all come together, we can make this the best education for all of our students while also being fiscally responsible,” Booth said.
With a two-vote margin, Durham resident Melissa Booth became the newest member of the Regional School District 13 Board of Of the 246 people who voted, 74 voted for Booth Education Monday. and 72 for Augur. Friedrich More than 200 residents won 100 votes. voted during the annual town budget meeting May On Tuesday, Augur extended his congratulations 13, to elect incumbent to Friedrich and Booth. Victor Friedrich and new member Booth to the “Both are clearly commitboard’s two expiring ted and I am confident terms. Booth narrowthey will do their best!” ly won over incumbent Augur said in an email. A Philip Augur, who was vy- business trip kept him ing for a second term. away from the Monday Booth, a resident of Durham since 2004, has two children in district schools. She will start her three-year term at the board’s first meeting in July. Augur will continue his term through June. In her remarks before the vote, Booth said she has the “utmost respect” for everyone on the board and recognizes the time commitment. “I think it's a time of change right now as we're moving to one program and there's probably going to be some bumps in the
meeting, but he called in through First Selectman Laura Francis to make remarks and answer audience questions before the vote.
Augur said over the course of his term on the board some people believed his actions were personally motivated. However, he said he had firsthand experience growing up in a district that started combining younger grades and saw how “the ability to more efficiently expend See BOE, A11
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