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A Week of News: School Evacuation, Overcollected Taxes and a Fire Truck Crash

A look back at the past week of news in Hamilton and Wenham.

It was a week full of some big local stories, ranging from the evacuation of the high school on Monday when water leaked into the electrical room to a former local resident winning her own show on Oprah Winfrey’s TV network.

All of and was evacuated a little less than a half hour before school was regularly scheduled to end on Monday at the high school. Schools returned to normal on Tuesday.

Also on Monday, a Wenham firefighter when the fire truck he has just parked at a car crash scene on Grapevine Road was struck by another vehicle. The road was icy at the time and the driver who hit the fire truck will not be charged.

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Last Friday, Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco , Oprah’s network. Kuzmic-Crocco is a 1997 Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School graduate. Her cooking show is already in production and will debut this summer.

And more information was released about the at the a week earlier. Verizon said on a 25-yea-old man while he was talking on it. The man received minor injuries.

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And on Friday night, the boys’ basketball team by Pentucket at home. The team got off to a slow start but fought back behind the inspired play of Jake Prince but fell short to end the season.

In Hamilton, the Board of Selectmen was faced with a decision about what to do with $275,000 in taxes that were overcollected this year. The board on their 2012 tax bills.

The same night, Hamilton Selectmen also heard about plans to use about $40,000 in anticipated meals tax revenue .

At , the spring performance “Into the Woods” .

Regionally, unsuccessful Congressional candidate Bill Hudak of Boxford said he in the North Shore district that includes Hamilton and Wenham.


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