SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Voters in a straw poll here Tuesday overwhelmingly supported a school consolidation option that would close the Tremont Consolidated School and send students from that town to the Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor.
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SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Voters in a straw poll here Tuesday overwhelmingly supported a school consolidation option that would close the Tremont Consolidated School and send students from that town to the Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor.
A nonbinding referendum question on the ballot for the annual town elections asked voters to choose among three scenarios regarding possible consolidation.
Voters in Tremont will weigh in on the consolidation options Monday, May 14, at their town elections. School officials have said they would use the results of the two straw polls to make decisions about how to proceed.
In Southwest Harbor, option two, closing the Tremont school and forming a joint school structure between the two towns to cooperatively run a K-8 school at Pemetic, gained 151 votes.
Option one, which is to form a joint school structure between the towns and have younger students attend the Tremont school and the older students the Pemetic school, received 65 votes.
About the same number of votes – 67 – were cast for the third option, which is for the schools to remain separate, as they are now.
Mark Good covers the towns of Southwest Harbor and Tremont, cops and courts and writes arts and feature stories. When not on the job he can be found making music or flyfishing. He and his wife live in Tremont with a dog and two cats.
Website: mdislander.com