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Volume LX No. 10 “Always vote for principle, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” – John Quincy Adams Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Meeting to-do
list shorter
Crematory, fire station projects
on Town Meeting agenda
By Justin Graeber, Clipper Editor livan.
justin@duxburyclipper.com
Sullivan also pointed out
The warrant is shorter the warrant also contains less
this year, and as annual Town money after some lean years
Meeting approaches there are for the town, and town leaders
only a handful of articles like- heard a message from voters
ly to create controversy on the last year to tighten belts.
floor of Town Meeting. “There’s a real push in
Town Hall and in the town
town meeting departments to use it up, wear
it out and use it again, which SING OUT: The Duxbury Performing Arts Center hosted an a cappella performance on Saturday night
“There aren’t a lot of ini-
that was presented by John Hancock Mutual Funds with all proceeds going to the Paul S. Fortini
tiatives,” said Board of Select- Foundation. Pictured is Northeastern’s a cappella group The Nor’Easters, which includes DHS grad
men Chairwoman Betsy Sul- continued on page 7
Tom Fiset. For more pictures see page 28. Photo by Karen Wong
Carpentry
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Although there were some sonal lives than the change’s compared with baseline data
negative comments, and some effect on students. collected last year, before the
teachers said the change had The survey was done from change was implemented.
a negative effect on their per- Jan. 27-Feb. 5. The questions Skeiber also gave the com-
sonal life, teachers at DHS, used were created by the Uni- mittee a general update on the
DMS and Alden all said that versity of Minnesota and had start time change.
they approved of the new been used to gauge reaction in She said the bus routes
times. 59 percent of high a Minnesota town that under- were the “most challenging”
school and middle school went a similar change. part of the change. She said
teachers had a favorable view “I was looking at one that moving the high school and
of the start time, as did 67 per- had been used so that it had middle school start time from
cent of Alden teachers. been tested,” said Superinten- 8:15 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. re-
This year, the Duxbury dent Susan Skeiber. “I think it solved that problem.
schools instituted new start asked appropriate questions “[Traffic on St. George
times by essentially flipping of the teaching staff.” Street] has been a problem for Reservations
the high school and middle The same questions were 15 years, this certainly didn’t
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studied enough and felt their ever, Skeiber said teachers of the after school opportuni-
input was not solicited. The ties the district has been pro-
School Committee approved
had been told to discourage
students from coming in early viding.
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