Following an individual associated with its transportation department testing positive for COVID-19, a York County school distract is delaying the start of classes by one week.
Regional School Unit 57 annouced in an online letter on Labor Day that it was delaying the staggered start of remote and in-person classes, which was slated to start this week.
In the letter, Superintendent Larry Malone said the district had made the decision out “of an abundance of caution” after “an individual associated with the Transportation Department recently tested positive for” COVID-19.
Malone provided minimal detail regarding the relationship of that person to the school district, but did say Maine CDC contact tracers have classified that person as not a “close contact.”
RSU 57 includes the town of Alfred, Waterboro, Shapleigh, Lyman, Limerick and Newfield.
State education officials last week updated their York County designation from green to yellow, meaning it was no longer safe for them to resume in-person classes full time. This in response to York County becoming a particular area of concern for the state, due to the rate of new cases, and the rate of positives tests coming back have been about triple the rest of the state.
