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By Josh Bickford / May 22, 2013 / Government & Politics, News, Schools / No Comments
An amendment to add $633,000 into the Barrington School Department budget and all but ensure the implementation of full-day kindergarten this fall came up 37 votes short on Wednesday night. A paper ballot vote at about 10 p.m. yielded two sets of numbers — one from each of the electronic counters located in the front [...]
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By Letters to the Editor / March 12, 2013 / Letters to the Editor, Opinion / 2 Comments
To the editor: The school budget was unsurprisingly passed by the School Committee with yet another increase of 3.2 percent to $46.1 million. The appropriations committee has yet to act on this proposal. What is disturbing in all of this is the assumption of an overall 2 percent increase in salaries and a whopping 5.5 [...]
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By Contributor / October 21, 2012 / Columns, Opinion / No Comments
I think my birth, at the end of 1936, qualifies me as in the age group of a typical Tea Party person. However, it shames to me to think that so many of my age peers, and those somewhat younger, forget the privileged taxation policies under which they grew up and flourished and show themselves [...]
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