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GSA’s Future

George Stevens Academy has been gaining increased attention in recent weeks due to the announcement of planned staff reductions in the face of declining enrollment, a request of several local towns for an “excess tuition” payment, and rumors that the school will seek to contract with one or more local towns to serve as the “official” high school for these towns.

On December 29, we’ll revisit GSA as a local institution:

  • What is the best way to help GSA?
  • To what degree should the Town of Blue Hill (or other local towns) support this private (or independent) school?
  • If we had the power to make change at GSA, what would we do? How can the school be made sustainable in the long run?

What can be done to keep local journalism alive?

For Monday, April 8, we decided to discuss “local journalism,” particularly in the Blue Hill Peninsula context.

John O. has provided some relevant links:

A House bill to grant tax credits to support local journalism: the Local Journalism Sustainability Act
The American Journalism Project (and description at UPenn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy)
Local newspapers are dying. Here’s how we can save them (Editorial: LA Times)
How public policy can save local news (Opinion: Columbia Journalism Review)

Consider some local resources, such as:

The Ellsworth American
Penobscot Bay Press
The Quietside Journal

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