The School Board once again closed the book on protests and discussion of the future high school’s colors and mascot last week.

Reading a six-sentence statement adopted by the School Board on May 6, Chairman Barbara Coish said there would be no further discussion on changing the school’s colors to green and gold.

Since last summer, the board has held several hearings and meetings with input from children and parents who wanted to change the planned dominant color of Windham High School from blue to green in keeping with town traditions.

The board voted against revisiting the colors that were decided by Windham students in a district-wide election in 2005, but green was later added as an accent color.

“In an effort to avoid divisiveness, the School Board voted to add the color green to the color scheme,” Coish said.

Although parents voiced concern that green wouldn’t be the dominant color, the School Board said the amount each color is used would be left up to the school administrators and athletic director.

Resident Jeff Domogala was the only person supporting the switch to green present for the announcement, but said it’s still an issue that gets attention in social circles in town.

“A lot of people still talk about it,” Domogala said. “I’m just disappointed that they really won’t revisit this.”

In protest of the board’s decisions over the past year, Domogala assisted with a petitioned warrant article on the 2007 ballot and has tied a large green ribbon around a tree in front of his house on Telo Road.

Jim Curtin, who drafted the petition, resigned his position as a volunteer firefighter from the town’s Fire Department over the issue, Domogala said.

Although the petition article requesting that school colors be green, gold and white succeeded on the ballot, it was a nonbinding referendum.

“They kind of just took anything in with what they wanted, and they ignored the students,” Domogala said. “They ignored the voters.”