FREEDOM — By this time next month, the Freedom School Board should have a new principal hired for the 2021-22 school year at Freedom Elementary School.
SAU 13 Superintendent Meredith Nadeau — who is leaving the district herself, come June — confirmed Tuesday that the principal search committee is down to two finalists for the principal’s position, which Pat Stone will step down from after five years at the helm of the K-6 school. Stone announced her resignation at a school board meeting April 12.
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