Maine’s seventh cosmetology school planned for Steuben
The town of Steuben could soon be home to the seventh cosmetology school in the state of Maine, as Linda Maclean Dunbar, the former owner and operator of the Hair Palace in Steuben and Corea, has announced her plans to open a school in the Washington County community.
“I’ve had a lot of women call me and say, ‘I’m so excited,’” Dunbar told the Bangor Daily News.
The impetus for the new school came after the sudden closure of Mr. Bernard’s School of Hair Fashion in Bangor and Lewiston in early 2015 — with those closures, Dunbar told the BDN that there are no longer any cosmetology schools between Steuben and Canada and between Steuben and Bangor, which is home to a single school.
Dunbar told the BDN that because of her plans to focus more of the business end of the school, she will be employing an additional instructor to teach the initial class of just six students who will pay $13,000 for courses.
Dunbar told the BDN that she currently has contractors ready to separate the building on Route 1 into classrooms. Members of the state’s board of barbering and cosmetology will pay a courtesy visit on Tuesday to provide a hand in figuring out the building’s configuration — if all goes according to plan, Dunbar told the BDN she hopes to open Dunbar’s Institute of Cosmetology in September.
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