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Review of the town manager’s recommended FY2012 budget will end on Tuesday, March 22 when the Board of Selectmen is expected to vote their approval. Over the past few weeks, the budget has gone through several reviews and changes and the board has met multiple times, in some cases in joint sessions with the School and Appropriations Committee.

Beginning with an almost $900,000 deficit, the members of all three committees have worked with Town Manager Norman Khumalo to reach a balanced budget that is acceptable to the majority of stakeholders.

Can the Hopkinton School District switch the scope of the Center School Elementary School project at this point in time? What would be the repercussions of a failed Town Meeting vote?

Theses are two questions posed to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) by Hopkinton residents. The School Committee is making available the MSBA's response to both of these questions in a letter dated March 11, 2011 to Superintendent Phelan.

Top 10 Reasons to Vote Yes for the New School

1. We have a very good staff, teachers and administration that will always be there for our children. The building simply helps them do a better job and get better teachers. The Center School Principal says she has a hard time recruiting top teachers because of the physical building.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts legislature launched a new web site to make information on legislative redistricting readily available to the public. The redistricting process, which occurs every ten years following the federal census, will result in new boundaries for state House of Representative, state Senate, and congressional districts and will be complete by the fall of 2011.

EMC recently donated more than 30,000 pounds of food and volunteered more than 570 hours at the Greater Boston Food Bank. It’s all part of the employee-led campaign entitled “EMC Fights Hunger” that was announced by EMC Chief Marketing Officer Jeremy Burton in January.

The program was developed by employees from the Marketing Leadership Development Program (MLDP) and its goal is to positively affect 10,000 people around the world. In Massachusetts, the goal was to assemble 2,500 pasta dinners, or 20,000 pounds of food, for families in the Greater Boston area.

Weston Nurseries Inc. recently announced that they have hired Tom Strangfeld as a Landscape Designer. Strangfeld returns to Weston Nurseries, where he worked prior to 2005 for 30 years in various management roles, including overseeing the Garden Center operation, the Landscaping Department and commercial sales.

Representative Carolyn Dykema will be holding office hours this month throughout the 8th Middlesex District. She will be in Hopkinton on Friday, March 18th from 12:30 t0 1:30pm at Bill's Pizza, 14 Main Street.

Office hours for surrounding towns are listed below:

Holliston
Monday March 21st, 2-3pm
Holliston Public Library, local history room
752 Washington Street
Holliston, MA 01746

Southborough
Monday, March 21st, 10:30-11:30am
Red Barn Coffee Roasters
205 Turnpike Rd
Southborough, MA 01772

Westborough
Monday, March 21st, 9:00-10:00am
Tatnuck Bookseller

"I am pleased to announce that both our boys and girls basketball teams have advanced again to the state semi-final round of the MIAA basketball tournament," said Principal Alyson Geary in an email to parents. "Both teams fought extremely hard for their wins last night at UMass Boston and we are so proud of our players, as well as our student fans that supported our teams in a positive and appropriate way."