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We need every vote to get this override passed, and we can’t get the vote out without your help. We’ve made it easy for you to reach out to your friends and neighbors and non-voters. Click the link below to print out a letter which you can print out and send to your neighbors [...]

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Fifteen. In 2005, an override failed on the ballot in Hamilton by only 15 votes. But really it only takes one missing vote to kill an override - your vote, your spouse’s vote, your neighbor’s vote, your college student’s vote. Help us get the vote out - every vote! Read our next e-mail to find [...]

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Why is it so important that you vote next Thursday? How could we ever lose? Here’s why overrides fail:

The “yes” voters see the large turnout at Town Meeting and get complacent. They are certain that all those “other” voters will go to the polls and assume that they don’t need to vote themselves.
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Absentee voting is so easy that there is no reason for anyone to miss voting because they weren’t in town that day.

Go to the Town Hall and vote over the counter by filling out an absentee ballot application form (which is necessary to do in order to get the absentee ballot) and then vote, right [...]

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We have come so far!
Yes, the override passed town meetings in both Hamilton and Wenham. Yes, we had record turnout - 466 for the Wenham Town Meeting, an astounding 915 for the Hamilton Town Meeting on Monday and and 459 hardy Hamilton souls who returned for the second night of town meeting. [...]

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Thanks to jaw-dropping attendance by school supporters, the override passed by a clear majority - barring any motions to reconsider, it will be placed on the May 15 ballot. FYI, the town moderator checked the overflow rooms after each motion, so be assured that your attendance was noted and your votes were counted! But, if [...]

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We’ve worked hard to learn as much as we can about the accreditation issues at the High School and we’ve learned a lot. Here is what we know.
1. What is the latest official news?
This week, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges downgraded the High School to [...]

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The SOS committee recently recorded three informational videos which are available on Hamilton Wenham TV as well as Google Video. You can view the videos here at our website by visiting our Videos page.
Here is Hamilton Wenham TV’s schedule for the next two weeks:
Episode 1- 5/3 at 12:30
Episode 2 - 4/30 at 5:00 and [...]

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Bad News Item 1: The Wenham Finance Committee voted not to support the full amount of the override.
Yesterday, the Wenham Finance Committee voted 4-1 not to support the full amount of the override. (The Hamilton Finance Committee supports the override 4-1 in favor and 2 of the 3 Hamilton Selectman support the override.) At Wenham [...]

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In a letter to Robert Krol, Principal of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School, received 4/29/08, NEASC informed him that the commission had decided to place the “school on warning for concerns regarding its adherence to the Commission’s Standards for Accreditation on Curriculum and Community Resources for Learning.” The letter went on to say:
“The concerns [...]

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