Article: Mount Desert Island residents OK school budgets

BAR HARBOR - Residents of Mount Desert Island have approved 2009- 10 budgets for the island's high school and central office.

About 40 people overwhelmingly voted Feb. 11 in favor of the proposed $8,592,186 budget for Mount Desert Island High School, according to MDI area schools superintendent Rob Liebow. The high school budget essentially is the same as the one for the current year. Last March, 37 people voted to approve a 2008-09 high school budget of $8.6 million.

In a related vote on Jan. 21, voters approved a $1,126,619 budget for the island's central school superintendent's office, according to a statement released earlier this month by Brian Hubbell, chairman of the region's new ...

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