CAMDEN — The Maine School Administrative District 28 Board of Directors has hired Jaime Stone as the next principal for Camden‐Rockport Middle School.

Stone will begin her new duties July 1. She will replace Thom Ingraham, who was hired as interim principal at the school, and served in that position for one year.

In a press release following the school board’s vote Wednesday night to hire Stone, school superintendent Elaine Nutter said that Stone has been working in the education field for almost 20 years. A Maine native, she was born in Portland and raised in Sedgwick and attended George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, and later the University of Maine at Orono, where she studied elementary Education.

She said she fell in love with children through coaching sports and substitute teaching while attending UMO.

Stone moved to Maryland to explore new adventures a year after graduating college. She held a variety of positions while in Maryland, including middle school teacher, counselor, charter school founder and school designer for Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound. For the last five years, she served as school principal of a kindergarten through eighth-grade expeditionary learning school.

Most recently her school won the Visionary School Awards of Maryland, recognized as one of the top schools in the state in arts integration and teaching of the arts.

Stone earned her Masters in School Administration and Supervision from Johns Hopkins University in 2006.

After almost 15 years away, Stone said she is elated to be returning to her roots on the coast of Maine. Her husband, Kevin, works in the IT field and their two children, Lillia, 10, and Maya, 6, are very excited to be closer to their family. In their spare time the Stone family enjoys playing with their dog, Porter, and their cat, Kloey, as well as sailing, hiking, skiing, gardening, beach combing and "just about anything you can do in the great outdoors."