First of Four Superintendent Candidates Arrives on Monday

The first of four complete days of interviews and meetings with candidates for school superintendent is on Monday.

The first of four school superintendent candidates arrives in Hamilton and Wenham for an all-day interview on Monday. Julia Phelps, currently Associate Commissioner for Curriculum and Instruction at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and a former assistant superintendent ion Danvers, will start the day at 7:45 a.m. with a welcome from the central office staff at Center School. From there, she will meet with administrators, faculty, staff, community members, parents and the School Committee. Phelps will follow the same schedule that the three other candidates will go through, including an interview with the School Committee at Buker Elementary School at 5:30 p.m. The interviews continue on Tuesday with Susan Givens, …

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Each Superintendent Finalist Will Spend Full Day in Meetings, Interviews

The schedule was announced on Friday for each of the four finalists for school superintendent to meet with school leaders, faculty, staff, parents and community members during the next few weeks.

Each of the four finalists to become the next Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District superintendent will spend a full day in the district in the coming weeks. Each candidate will have the same daylong itinerary – starting at 7:45 a.m. with a meeting at the central office and ending at 7 p.m. with a dinner with the School Committee. “Their visits to the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District will include a full day of interviews, conversations, and meetings with the community, Leadership Team and School Committee,” the School Committee said in an announcement issued on Friday, after the committee met to set up the schedule on Thursday night. The meeting with parents and the community will happen at 10:15-11:15 a.m. for each candidate on…

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Jim Smith

2:32 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012

We don't need a superintendant, we don't need an $80,000.00 software program to place students. For God's sake hire a person for this amount, start investing in people or their will be no people working to pay your high taxes to afford these broad based dissidents who only undermine our system of a free government for the people and by the people.   more ›

Superintendent Finalists Come From Belmont, Masco, Pentucket and State Ed Department

The field of 33 applicants has been narrowed to four finalists to become the next superintendent of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District.

The four finalists to become the next superintendent of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District are all from eastern Massachusetts, including top officials in two nearby school districts. The finalists, announced on Monday, are: Susan Givens, currently Chief Financial Officer for the Masconomet Regional School District; William Hart, currently Assistant Superintendent for Pentucket Regional Schools; Michael Harvey, currently Principal of Belmont High School and Julia Phelps, currently Associate Commissioner for Curriculum and Instruction at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The four finalists were announced on Monday night by the Superintendent Search Committee, which spent two weeks interviewing 11 finalists …

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Superintendent Finalists to be Named Next Week

The School Superintendent Search Committee will name finalists for the superintendent job early next week.

A handful of finalists in the search for the next Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District superintendent will be announced next week. The Superintendent Search Committee said in a prepared statement on Wednesday that “it anticipates announcing finalists, after necessary communications with all candidates, by the beginning of next week.” The committee finished its interviews with 11 semi-finalists after meeting in executive session on Tuesday night. The interviews were conducted during a series of meetings during the past two weeks. Those finalists were selected from a pool of 33 applicants that submitted resumes in advance of the March 16 deadline. The search committee has not determined how many finalists it will name next week. “The …

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Jay Burnham

6:32 am on Friday, April 6, 2012

Thank you.   more ›

Patch Facts

Five Things You Need to Know Today: April 3

An essential get-me-going daily morning column from Hamilton-Wenham Patch.

Today is Tuesday, April 3. Here are five things you need to know: 1. Trash: One of our “things to know” will be the new trash program all week long. The new program affects almost every resident of the two towns and the program’s changes are going into place all week long. It started in Wenham on Monday and continues on Tuesday in Wenham before beginning on Wednesday in Hamilton - all on the regular collection day. Trash, recycling and organics collection will happen weekly in Wenham, while this week there will be just recycling and organics collection in Hamilton. Next week trash, organics and recycling will be collected in Hamilton. 2. Umpiring: The Hamilton-Wenham Little League is looking for umpires in its Minor Leagues for the …

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: March 20

An essential get-me-going daily morning column from Hamilton-Wenham Patch.

Today is Tuesday, March 20. Here are five things you need to know: 1. Spring: Tuesday is the first day of spring – it officially arrived at 1:14 a.m. 2. Best of Readers Choice: Every week, we ask Hamilton-Wenham Patch users to pick their top choice in a specific category of local businesses. This week, tell us the best place to get your car or truck repaired. Voting runs until 9 a.m. on Friday. Look for the winner to be announced at noon on Friday. 3. Gas: While gas prices are reportedly going up nationally and across the Commonwealth, here in the two towns gas prices have actually held steady for the past two weeks. And three out of the four local gas stations were selling a gallon of regular below the statewide average of $3.74 on Monday…

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Five Things You Need to Know Today: March 14

An essential get-me-going daily morning column from Hamilton-Wenham Patch.

Today is Wednesday, March 14. Here are five things you need to know: 1. Weather: There will be a mix of clouds and sun on Wednesday with temperatures in the 50s, with the 60s and low 70s from the past few days becoming a memory. By Sunday, though, those warm temperatures may return. 2. Baseball Clinic: Wednesday is the deadline for kids age 5-12 to register for a baseball skills clinic on Saturday, hosted by the baseball team and coaching staff from Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School. The clinic will be run by the new varsity head coach Reggie Maidment, his staff and the players. The clinic will cost $25 per child and they will each get a Generals baseball T-shirt. There are separate afternoon clinics for 5-6 year-olds, 7-9 year-olds and…

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School Superintendent Job Ads to be Published ASAP

The School Committee is quickly moving forward with the purchase of advertisements for the school superintendent position.

The search for a new school superintendent quickly moves to its next steps on Friday with the purchase of advertisements seeking candidates for the job. The 8-0 decision on Thursday night by the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee to immediately purchase ads comes after the superintendent search committee voted 8-2 on Monday night to not move Interim Superintendent Peter Gray forward to the School Committee as a candidate to permanently fill the position. Gray, who typically sits among the School Committee during its meetings at Buker Elementary School, left before the committee has its discussion on Thursday night about its next moves to fill the position. Gray has been serving an interim superintendent since May, when then-…

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Jim Smith

5:37 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012

I bet one could hire a common sense business person for $75,000.00 per year or less as superintendant. I think our system of over-government has precluded good people from being hired for these once attainable positions by those who were more concerned with our students and school system than a big paycheck ? I would like to see someone with common sense, not a Elizabeth Warren or Martha coakley …   more ›

Gray Doesn't Get Backing for Permanent Superintendent Job

The search for a permanent superintendent for the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee will now likely be opened up after Interim Superintendent Peter Gray didn't get the backing of the search committee on Monday night.

Peter Gray did not get the backing Monday night of a search committee charged with deciding whether he should be named permanent superintendent for the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District. The 12-member search committee voted 8-2 against recommending to the School Committee that Gray – the interim superintendent since May - be named to the post permanently. The School Committee, if it concurs when it meets on Thursday night, would then open the search to outside candidates. Gray, who was hired as Assistant Superintendent of Business in June 2010, was named interim superintendent last summer after the departure of Dr. Raleigh Buchanan. Search committee members on Monday expressed a range of concerns about Gray, from his lack of …

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