Wenham Town Meeting this Saturday. Hamilton next Monday and Tuesday nights.
A Capital Debt Exclusion (CDE) is on the warrants for both the Hamilton and Wenham Town Meetings. The CDE will be used for school repairs and safety/health improvements and to address several NEASC compliance issues. For more detailed information, please click here.
Town Leadership is in [...]
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This time of year we are deluged with all sorts of information as we approach town meetings. For those that can handle a little more, I’ve assembled some data from credible sources.
Real Estate Stats for Hamilton and Wenham
Boston Magazine’s March issue focused on the Best Places to Live 2009. They took a look [...]
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Every school building in our district is in need of repairs and health/safety improvements.
This year, the School Committee feels the timing is advantageous to fund those repairs with a Capital Debt Exclusion (CDE).
A Capital Debt Exclusion is not an operational override and, thanks to historically low interest rates, will have minimal impact on our [...]
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Candidates for selectman and other important posts in both Hamilton and Wenham will be speaking publicly this Tuesday night, from 7 p.m. — 9:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Miles River Middle School.
The event, which is hosted by the non-partisan League of Women Voters, will also be televised live on our local [...]
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Please don’t skip Town Meeting this year because there isn’t a school operational override. There are two very important school-related issues on the warrant and we need massive parent turnout. School opponents will be out in force for town meeting; we ALL need to show up to make sure our voice is heard.
HWRSD [...]
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Great news. As announced by the School Committee yesterday, Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District employees have agreed to a salary concession of one day without pay for the 2009-2010 school year.
Two unions were involved in negotiations – the Hamilton-Wenham Education Association, which represents teachers, secretaries and nurses, and the Hamilton-Wenham Custodians’ union. A majority of [...]
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Please join SOS at our monthly meeting as we host members of the Wenham and Hamilton Boards of Selectmen.
Agenda items include:
Dialogue on the Hamilton/Wenham police merger
A brief presentation from the Hamilton Government Study group
Information on the Capital Debt Exclusion that’s been requested for school building repair and maintenance
Update on FY10 School Budget [...]
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Please join SOS at our monthly meeting, open to everyone, as we host members of the Wenham and Hamilton Boards of Selectmen, who will talk about the proposed merger of the two town’s police departments and how such a move might affect town and school finances. Other agenda items include:
A brief presentation from the Hamilton [...]
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Posted in Education on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Thought-provoking questions examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. An official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod.
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