Ash-West committee bumps budget to add positions
By Sean Sweeney Journal Correspondent
      The Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School Committee increased the district's FY08 budget by $73,815 on Tuesday night, after three principals implored the panel to add certain positions to their buildings. Coming into the meeting, the budget was sitting at $2,332 shy of $28.2 million. With the new...
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Overlook selects seven second term Citizens
      The staff at Overlook has selected the following students as Citizens of the Term for the second term: sixth graders Cassie Betourney, Patrick O'Connell and Timothy Lemieux; seventh graders Ellen Murchie and Brandon Alicea; eighth graders Elizabeth Langelier and Joe DiVito.
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FY08 budget by the numbers
By Sean Sweeney Journal Correspondent
      This is the breakdown for the North Middlesex Regional School District's proposed $41.5 million FY-08 budget, which was adopted by the School Committee Monday night and needs to be ratified by the towns at town meeting: + The Central Office is Townsend is requesting $9,065,390, an increase of 16.1...
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