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Schools February 15th, 2008
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Committee hears about Special Ed costs, fees
By Melissa Muntz Community Reporter
      Shrewsbury - The nearly double-digit increase to the school budget and parent fees were among the top concerns brought up at a School Committee public hearing Feb. 6. The School Department has requested a budget of $46.82 million, which represents a 9.7 percent budget increase over fiscal year (...
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Nigerian art comes to Hastings Elementary School
      Westborough - Hastings Elementary School third-graders (l to r) Lucas Powers, John Fallon, Cassie Domeij and Grace Sung work on a project inspired by Nigerian Adire Cloths, during art class. The students were creating designs with crayons on paper, which will then be covered with a light layer of ...
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School Committee pares $363,000 from proposed budget
By Ken Powers Community Reporter
      Northborough - The K-8 School Committee approved and forwarded to the town a proposed fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget in the amount of $17.5 million, an increase of almost $1 million over this year's budget. While the proposed budget is still an increase of 5.79 percent over the FY 2008 budget, it...
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Students show love for veterans
By Melissa Muntz Community Reporter
      Hudson - Thousands of elementary school children across the country gather every Nov. 11 to celebrate the nation's veterans and thank them for their service. But for the teachers at Hubert Kindergarten Center in Hudson, one day a year just isn't enough.
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Schools offer safety reminders in light of tragedy
By Melissa Muntz Community Reporter
      Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury school officials are reminding parents and bus drivers to be diligent in terms of bus safety following the death of 5-year-old Darnell Cobb, who choked to death on a Marlborough school bus last month.
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'Honest Abe' visits Paton School
      Shrewsbury - On Feb. 4, the students at Walter J. Paton School had a special visitor. Rich Arum, an actor from the Historical Perspectives for Children organization, came dressed in costume as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Arum took the students on a journey back to 1865 and taught them what li...
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'Real-Life Cowboy' comes to Marlborough
     By Angela Greiner Community Reporter Marlborough - Dressed in real-life western garb and armed with a guitar, banjo, harmonica and mandolin, Skip Gorman will share stories and music of the Old West. Gorman, otherwise known as the "Real-Life Cowboy," will perform in the newly remodeled gym of...
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Dollars for Scholars' applications soon to be available
      Marlborough - In March, the Citizen's Scholarship Foundation (CSF) of Marlborough's "Dollars for Scholars" program will have scholarship application forms in the Marlborough Public Library and the guidance offices of Marlborough High School, Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School, Hudson C...
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