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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
VOL. 23 NO. 211
CONWAY, N.H.
MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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Freedom school principal resigns
Board meets today to discuss replacement BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
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FREEDOM -- Elementary school principal Corinne Rocco has resigned to take a job in another town. The school board will have a special meeting with staff about finding a replacement for her at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Superintendent Jay McIntire said Rocco’s resignation went to the board on Thursday. McIntire said Rocco gave him notice the week before. McIntire would only confirm that Rocco had taken another position out of town. “She will not be back in the building. She has moved on,” said McIntire on Tuesday morning. “Everyone wishes her the best.” The school board could have held Rocco for 30 days but chose not to do that, said McIntire. Rocco started at Freedom Elementary on July 1, 2005. Prior to becoming principal, Rocco spent six years as assistant principal at the Molly Ockett Middle School in Fryeburg. She had also been a teacher at Josiah Bartlett Elementary School in Bartlett.
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A Pine Tree school kindergartner in Lauren Skillen’s afternoon class enjoys a book in the reading corner during a brief free-time at the beginning of class to help young students settle in to the classroom environment Tuesday. Elementary school principals from the Conway schools presented facts in support of changing from half-day to a full day kindergarten class. Pine Tree, John Fuller and Conway Elementary schools all offer half-day class with a morning session and an afternoon session. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
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Elementary school principals want full day kindergarten BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — All three elementary school principals are proposing adding all-day kindergarten at their schools. They presented a united front before the Conway School Board Monday evening and are seeking to
put a warrant article on the ballot next April for voters to consider. The estimated cost is $170,931 for three teachers at $55,477 and $1,500 per school for supplies and equipment. see KINDERGARTEN page 9
At age 72, Brown will get $1,000 a week for 20 years BY TOM EASTMAN THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — Retired for nearly five years from his job as a shift supervisor for the data clinic at the Lahey Center, Chris Brown, 72, of Lamplighters Trailer Park stepped forward Monday afternoon to announce to state lottery officials that he was the lucky winner of Friday’s Tri-State Weekly Grand drawing. A native of Marblehead, Mass., who moved to Conway after retirement, Brown bought the winning ticket at Shaw’s Supermarket in Redstone. Acting on the advice of his brother, who he described as a very successful insurance businessman, the affable Brown said Tuesday that despite his retirement age, he is opting to collect $1,000 a week before taxes for the next 20 years rather than go for a onetime lump sum amount of $600,000 before taxes. see LOTTERY page 10
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