Aroostook school for people with disabilities opens major expansion

Aroostook school for people with disabilities opens major expansion

For more than 66 years, the Central Aroostook Association has operated its Opportunity Training Center — a private K-12 special purpose school — out of a 10,000-square-foot building in Presque Isle. The space was “pretty cramped,” as one educator put it. But as the school year began Wednesday, the roughly 28 students in its middle-high school program stepped through the doors of a new facility the association bought, then massively renovated thi…