School Events
Monday, Feb. 4, through Friday, Feb. 8
      Overlook Middle School Tuesday, Feb. 5 - Budget Subcommittee/School Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m. Oakmont Regional High School Monday, Feb. 4 - Oakmont Booster Club to meet, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 - Open House/Course Selection, 7 to 9 p.m.
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Classroom theater
     Daniel Bartkus plays Hedgie who is talking to the Roosters played by Zachary Livingstone (left) and Trevor Martin (right) in the play, "The Hat" by Jan Brett. Beth Foster's Kindergarten class at Meetinghouse School performed the class play last week. JOURNAL PHOTO/JEFFREY W. BOUDREAU
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Local students honored
      Cushing Academy recently announced its academic and athletic honors for the 2007 fall term. To be awarded honors, students must be enrolled in four major courses and earn a grade point average of 85 or above for the term. Those earning high honors must also be enrolled in four major courses and ea...
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Local student makes Dean's List
      NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Andrea M Keefe, of Westminster, was named to the Dean's List at the University of New Haven for the fall 2007 semester. Full-time undergraduate students must have a 3.50 or better cumulative GPA for the semester to be eligible for the Dean's List.
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Rotary Round-Up: News of the Ashburnham-Westminster Rotary Club
      The Ashburnham-Westminster Rotary Club had a busy holiday season and is planning an active Spring schedule. On Dec. 5, our speaker was Bob Maki, the newly appointed agent of the Westminster Conservation Commission. Maki grew up in Gardner, served in the military, graduated from Northeastern Univ...
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Seventh Community Benefit Hockey Game scheduled
      The organizers have announced the Seventh Annual Ashburnham-Westminster Community Benefit Hockey Game will be held on Saturday, March 29, at the Iorio Arena, on the campus of Cushing Academy in Ashburnham. This year's game will benefit the family of Rachel Lee, a fourth grader at John R. Briggs E...
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Unitarian Universalist Church opens doors for Sanctuary
      Beginning Saturday, Feb. 2, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Gardner will open its doors as a Peace Sanctuary. From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. the church will be open to those in the community who wish to pray, meditate or think about world peace.
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