BARTLETT — After visiting two of the newest SAUs in the state, the Bartlett School Board’s SAU exploratory committee has recommended the town stay within SAU 9.
The Bartlett committee — Superintendent Kevin Richard, Bartlett School Board’s Scott Grant and Emily Calderwood, JBES Principal Joe Yahna and social studies teacher Joe Mountford, and residents Robert Chase, Steve Hemple and Kelly Tonkery — met twice and decided after the first meeting it needed to gather more information. This led Calderwood, Hemple and Tonkery to visit SAU No. 104 in Rollinsford and SAU 101 in Wakefield.
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