OTISFIELD — Custodians were busy Monday helping set up classrooms in the Otisfield Community School, which underwent a $1 million mold removal project this summer.
“We’ll be all set,” said the school’s head custodian, Barbara Maguire, of the last-minute rush for the first day of school Monday, Aug. 29.
The furniture, computers, books and other materials have been in the central gymnasium all summer. Teachers are expected to put the final touches on their classrooms Wednesday.
Oxford Hills School District Superintendent Rick Colpitts told school directors last week that the project was finished seven days later than anticipated. It was required because tests confirmed the presence of mold from the interior of the Sheetrock to the brick exterior walls and in the windows, which were all replaced. The mold was the result of leaks in the building.
Colpitts has said teachers, students and others can return to school confident that the problem has been resolved.
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- Bud Raymond, a custodian at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, was one of nearly a dozen custodians who helped Monday preparing the Otisfield Community School for classes. The school just completed a $1 million mold-removal project.
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- Jared Jacobs, a sophomore at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, has been helping the custodians put classrooms in order at the Otisfield Community School.
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