25 Years Ago: In Deep River, the Supervision District Board of Education unanimously approved the Regional School District 4 Administrators’ Association contract and a change in the superintendent of schools’ contract. The request for the one-year contract for administrators was an 8½ percent pay hike, but five vacation days were brought back, which added another 1.2 percent to their salaries, bringing the total to 9.7 percent.
25 Years Ago: The Regional District 17 Board of Education and the Haddam-Killingworth Education Association approved a two-year teacher contract that ties 15 percent annual salary increases to increases in the length of the school day and year.