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  • Why did MSAD 72 abruptly drop its special-needs transport company?
  • How did a Fryeburg student’s ride expose a bigger state scandal?

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📰 News we're reading

• Fryeburg schools end contract with transport company that lost 7-year-old child for 5 hours (pressherald.com) — Fryeburg-area families should know that MSAD 72 has cut ties with its special-needs transport contractor after a 7-year-old student was missing for more than five hours on a trip to Monmouth. District staff are now driving students themselves while police investigate, and the child’s foster mother says she’s still waiting for clear communication and answers from the school board.
   

• Lewiston's Credibility Collapse: Fraud, Fake Addresses, Missing Kids, and Indicted City Leader Clinging to Power (themainewire.com) — Fryeburg residents are again at the center of statewide scrutiny after a special-needs student from town was lost for more than five hours during an MSAD 72-arranged transport that inexplicably ended up in Lewiston. The same driver listed a Lewiston nonprofit’s office as his home address, raising wider questions about state IDs, voter registrations, and oversight that investigators and reporters are now probing.
   

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