NEWPORT — Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has offered to donate $10,000 to the Newport School District to help offset the cost of replacing the aging football scoreboard a Maryn Field.
The current scoreboard, which provides grid fans with all they need to know statistically at Newport’s home games, has been limping along for the last few years, according to Newport Middle and High School Athletic Director Jeff Miller.
“It is past its shelf life,” Miller informed the Newport School Board at its last meeting on Aug. 23. “It has struggled by for the last five or six years,” he revealed.
Miller said a new scoreboard will take the same elements as the current board. That could be another $4,000, he said. He is checking out the cost of electrical work involved that may run another $3,500 to $6,000.
He expects firmer numbers may be available to share at a Sept. 13th public hearing scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to receive public comment. Because the donation by Bar Harbor is going to be more than $5,000 it must first have a public hearing.
At the school board meeting, Miller was informed that additional funds for the scoreboard project would have to come from public donations.
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