Prices going up for school meals in Weathersfield

MINERAL RIDGE — The Weathersfield school board has approved an increase in the cost of school meals at all three district buildings for the 2008-09 school year.

Breakfast prices will be increased by 25 cents and be: Seaborn Elementary: from 75 cents to $1, Middle School, from $1 to $1.25 and high school, from $1 to $1.25.

Lunch prices will be increased as follows: Seaborn, from $1.85 to $2 and Middle School, from $2.10 to $2.25, and the high school, $2.40 to $2.50.

The board also approved a transfer of $10,000 from the general fund to the athletic fund. It’s part of a commitment made last summer that the board would pay $10,000 a year for the next three years to pay off a $30,000 repair to the football field made in 2007, Treasurer Laurena Rouan explained.

The board also added three new courses for the high school for the 2008 to 2009 school year, including: journalism in the English Department; ACT/SAT preparation in the Math Department and Financial Planning in the Business Department.

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