‘Feels like Groundhog Day’

BY (REV) DONALD J. RUDALEVIGE & SUZANNE RUDALEVIGE

The battle over a new school in Cape Elizabeth feels like Groundhog Day. The tired mantra of the opposition is that it is too expensive, ignoring or downplaying the need. Prior to moving to Maine in 1998, we lived in 8 communities in New England and never encountered such a reluctance to provide quality facilities as we have seen in Cape.

The school committee and its contractors have provided clear evidence of the need for a new school, with an intelligent model for meeting that need, and paying for the new facility. Yet those opposed continue to raise misleading and, to my mind false, analyses, both as to need and cost.

We have not had a child in the Cape schools, but we are fully supportive of the effort to continue to provide quality education for the children of the town. If Cape Elizabeth is to continue as a vibrant, supportive community for its residents, we need to vote “Yes” in the June Referendum.