OAKLAND — Any day now, Regional School Unit 18’s transportation director will welcome home a middle-aged school bus, fresh from a makeover and ready for another several years and tens of thousands of miles on the road.

READFIELD — The assistant superintendent of the Bangor School Department will become Regional School Unit 38’s superintendent this summer.

AUGUSTA — Groups hoping to start Maine’s first public charter schools are still waiting for a request for proposals, but they say they’ll be ready for classes this fall.

AUGUSTA — Groups hoping to start Maine’s first public charter schools are still waiting for a request for proposals, but they say they’ll be ready for classes this fall.

HALLOWELL — People of European descent first settled this stretch of the Kennebec River in 1762. According to city historian Sam Webber, Deacon Pease Clark, considered Hallowell’s founder, arrived here on May 2 that year with his adult son Peter and Peter’s family.

CHELSEA — Regional School Unit 12 administrators have decided against moving the district’s central office into Chelsea Elementary School.