Private Blue Hill academy to give area towns greater say in how it is run

Private Blue Hill academy to give area towns greater say in how it is run

George Stevens Academy, a private high school in Blue Hill, plans to open its board meetings fully to the public next month for the first time and talk with area towns about options for shared governance. The town academy is essentially the area high school for seven Blue Hill peninsula towns — Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Penobscot, Sedgwick and Surry — but families in those towns have school choice allowing them to send their chi…