Once again, the Southern Regional School District will maintain all instructional and extracurricular programs, despite the continued rise in costs, specifically those for utilities and supplies as well as staff salaries and benefits.

“Our overall budget is increasing by 1.75%. There are a lot of pieces within the budget that go up significantly and a lot of pieces that go down to offset that,” said Business Administrator Steve Terhune, as he opened the budget presentation during the district…