New year, new attitude
Editorial
      Forget what the weather, calendar, or anything else tells you. Summer ends next week, when school starts. Apparently long gone are the days of the post-Labor Day start of school, so it's an August start this year for all but the youngest school children. Let the grumbling begin.
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Letters to the Editor
      Superintendent responds to override results To the Editor: Two steps forward and one step back. This is one way to characterize the progress the Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District has made during the past four year. The good citizens of Ashburnham and Westminster delivered a loud...
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How can we fund all activities within the operating budget?
~ SpeakOut ~
Nancy Bakanowsky ASHBURNHAM
      On Aug. 15, - with very little fanfare and equally little commentary from committee members - the Ashburnham- Westminster Regional School Committee voted not to press ahead with its fiscal year 2008 override request, opting, instead,
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I'd turn away from YouTube … if I could
By Jim Keogh
      Every time I log on to YouTube I feel like Lindsay Lohan cracking open a Budweiser. Part of me insists that what I'm doing is wrong; that I'm hopelessly addicted. The other part of me doesn't give a damn what the other part of me thinks.
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