Weathersfield principal gets 5-year pact


MINERAL RIDGE — The Weathersfield Board of Education has approved a new five-year contract for high school principal Lew Lowery.

The contract, which the board approved at its Wednesday meeting, runs from Aug. 1 this year to July 31, 2012.

A voluntary wage freeze is included in the pact for the 2007-08 school year at Lowery’s current salary of $66,755. Lowery had been a teacher at the high school since 1988 before becoming high school principal three years ago.

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