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Watch 'Quiz Show' Finals, Get Some Plants and Run a 5K This Weekend

Get a look at the quick info about some of the local events happening this weekend in Hamilton and Wenham, including a plant sale and road race in Hamilton on Sunday and a High School Quiz Show viewing party on Sunday.

The upcoming weekend in Hamilton and Wenham includes a plant sale and road race in downtown Hamilton on Saturday plus a group bikeride on the new rail trail through Wenham. Get the when and where below for those events and other happenings in Hamilton and Wenham. Remember, each Friday morning Hamilton-Wenham Patch’s “Get Out” weekend planner brings you a quick guide to local events and activities. There’s also a lot of other activities going on, including farmstead tours at Appleton Farms plus the Hamilton Police Memorial Sunday event and the always popular Touch-a-Truck event in Beverly at the high school. Gordon College will also hold its graduation on Saturday outside in the Quad and on Sunday about 1,000 bicyclists will take part in …

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School Committee: 'Secret Negotiations' Helped Avoid Budget 'Food Fight'

The Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee ratified the fiscal 2013 budget number that was approved by Hamilton Town Meeting on Saturday.

The Hamilton-Wenham School Committee voted 7-1 Tuesday night to OK the 2013 budget that was approved by the Hamilton Town Meeting on Saturday The decision, though, came after a lengthy discussion on how "secret negotiations" before the meeting avoided what member Larry Swartz called “a war” that might have broken out in the high school auditorium. Several current and former members of the School Committee criticized the negotiations by three members – Chairman Alexa McCloughan, Vice Chairman Roger Kuebel and Swartz – which were kept from the other committee members prior to Saturday's Annual Town Meeting in Hamilton. However, most critics also said that the result of the "secret negotiations" was good for the Hamilton-Wenham Regional …

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Regional Team to Face Arlington Again in 'Quiz Show' Finals

The finals of High School Quiz Show, that airs this weekend on WGBH-TV channel 2, will be a rematch of last year, featuring Hamilton-Wenham versus Arlington.

The state finals of High School Quiz Show – which will air this coming weekend – will be a rematch of last year’s finals. The College Bowl team from Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School will face the team from Arlington High School.  The show will air on WGBH-TV channel 2 at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. Last year, after winning High School Quiz Show, the Regional team advanced to face Mt. Greylock Regional High School, which won a similar game called “As Schools Match Wits,” which airs on WGBH sister-station WGBY in Western Massachusetts. The Regional team defeated the Mt. Greylock team. This year, the High School Quiz Show championship serves at the statewide championship since the game was opened up to schools all across the state. …

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Weekend Events Include Designers on Display, Fishing Derby

Get a look at the quick info about some of the local events happening this weekend in Hamilton and Wenham.

Weekend events in Hamilton and Wenham range from Hamilton Town Meeting on Saturday morning to the start of the Design Show at Wenham Museum. There’s also an “event” everyone can take part in Saturday – the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Leave some non-perishable food (that is not past the expiration date) out for your mail carrier. Get the when and where below for those events and other happenings in Hamilton and Wenham. Remember, each Friday morning Hamilton-Wenham Patch’s “Get Out” weekend planner brings you a quick guide to local events and activities. We encourage you to look past this weekend guide into our full calendar of events, where we have other events listed. Remember, if you have great ideas of your own that you want to share, …

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Jay Burnham

2:39 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012

Excellent news today from the Hamilton Town Meeting! Reason prevailed and Hamilton residents voted to reduce Hamilton's share of the school budget by $285,683.00. Expect this to be complimented in Wenham by a reduction of their proportionate share (approximately $134,400.00) and we have ($420,000) close to the $500k the taxpayers were seeking from the school district to help reduce the burden of …   more ›

New $133.7 Million Agricultural and Technical High School Breaks Ground

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new school - that will serve technical and agricultural students from Hamilton and Wenham - was held at the Essex Aggie campus in Danvers.

State and town officials, school administrators, trustees and stakeholders joined to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new $133.7 million Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical High School at the Essex Agricultural campus in Danvers on Wednesday.  Described as a "powerful champion" since the inception of the project, which dates back to the mid-1990's, Senate Majority Leader Fred Berry said waking up on Wednesday morning he was "very, very happy." Berry was presented with a plaque of honor from current freshmen at the North Shore Tech and Essex Agricultural School. The mega-vocational school will be the only high school in the state to offer all of the programs in one facility that are currently offered between Essex Aggie, North …

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Schools Remind Parents 'To Employ Safety Practices and Procedures'

Following Monday night's reported attempted abduction in Hamilton, school officials have reminded parents "to employ safety practices and procedures" and the school's curriculum that relates to child safety.

School leaders joined police on Tuesday in warning students and parents to “remain vigilant” and report any suspicious activity to police after a reported attempted abduction on Monday evening. In addition, Hamilton police have directed residents to the website for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – from a link on the Hamilton Police website – for more information about child safety. “I have spoken with Chief Stevens from the Hamilton Police Department and am asking all parents to remind their children to employ safety practices and procedures as we teach through our Respect and Responsibility curriculum and report any suspicious activity immediately,” interim school Superintendent Peter Gray said in his message, sent…

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Incoming Superintendent Leads No. 4 Ranked High School in Mass., 111th in U.S.

U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday ranked Belmont High School - where the top choice to become the new Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District superintendent is now principal - as the No. 4 high school in the state.

Belmont High School – where likely Hamilton-Wenham school superintendent to-be Michael Harvey is now principal – has been ranked No. 4 in the state by U.S. News and World Report. The 2012 edition of the rankings were released on Tuesday. Belmont High School was No. 111 nationally in the rankings, which earned it a gold medal from the magazine. Harvey, an Ipswich resident, has been principal at the school since 2006. Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School was not listed in the top 64 high schools in the state and was not given a ranking by the magazine. Harvey’s leadership at the school was repeatedly cited by the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee on Monday night as it voted to make an offer to give the superintendent job to Harvey. …

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Belmont Principal Will Be 'Excellent Fit' As Next School Superintendent

The Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee unanimously chose to offer the job as the next superintendent of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District to current principal at Belmont High School on Monday night.

Michael Harvey, currently the principal at Belmont High School, was the unanimous pick to become the next Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District superintendent on Monday night. School Committee Chairman Alexa McCloughan notified Harvey in a cell phone call minutes after the 7:36 p.m. vote. “He is very excited,” McCloughan said. It took the committee only about 35 minutes to go around and have each member outline their support for Harvey. Bill Dery was the only committee member to pick another candidate – Susan Givens. Dery said that Givens has the financial skills and experience with a regional school district at the Masconomet Regional School District that is needed for Hamilton-Wenham. But after the committee’s eight other members all …

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