Blue Sky wants community vote on consolidation

The Blue Sky school board wants to hold an election on whether Blue Sky and the Kremlin-Gildford school districts should consolidate, if the KG district holds an election as well.

"The board here would like a vote, just to see what people want to do," board chair Lyle Petersen said at a board meeting Thursday night.

Petersen said the board will draft a resolution asking Blue Sky voters to approve consolidating the districts, with grades seven through 12 at Rudyard and kindergarten through sixth at Hingham.

The KG school board, a guest at the Blue Sky board meeting, said it will take the discus...