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The King Philip School Committee plans to interview three finalists to become the new superintendent of the regional grades-7-through-12 school district that serves Norfolk, Wrentham, and Plainville. Maureen Howard, chairman of the King Philip School Committee, announced the names of the finalists late this week. They are: More ... Mark Flaherty was the third and final candidate to jump in the race for Board of Selectmen in the annual town election in May, along with current board member Jim Lehan and challenger Scott Bugbee. More ... Selectman and town moderator have drawn contested races in Norfolk’s annual town election in May, but some officesso far have no takers. Former selectman Jonathan Smith and current Advisory Board member Carolyn Van Tine have qualified for the ballot to run for town moderator to replace Dan Winslow, who is running for state representative. More ... The Norfolk Boomerang plans to begin the 2010 edition of Candidates’ Corner next week, in the issue dated Friday, April 9. Candidates for local office in the Tuesday, May 11 annual town election are invited to submit written statements touting their many virtues by email to NorfolkBoomerang@gmail.com. More ... Thieves who broke into cars in Walpole last month left behind a duffle bag of unwanted papers from the cars on Highland Lake Drive in Norfolk, police said. More ... Playing fields in Norfolk are so wet from torrential rains that the fields can’t be used until at least Monday, April 5, according to Norfolk Baseball, which runs the town’s youth baseball program. The area got about 14 inches of rain during March, whereas normal rainfall is about 15 inches for March, April, May, and June combined, according to Channel 7 in Boston. More ... Norfolk School Building Committee members need to cut expenses from an early design for the elementary school because recent cost estimates suggest the total would go above the $36.9 million appropriated for the project. Two cost estimators for the project found that the current design would likely cost more than the amount available, ranging from$500,000 to $1.5 million. More ... Three prekindergarten classrooms in an early design of the new elementary school aren’t needed, said Lisa Altham-Hickey, who has just taken over as interim principal as Freeman-Centennial School. More ... A 23-year-old Franklin man was arrested last month after a Norfolk police officer found nine 80-milligram OxyContin pills and three methodone pills the man didn’t have a subscription for, police said. When Officer Eric VanNess stopped the car about 10:38 p.m. More ... Three Franklin residents whom police say were out to steal scrap metal from the buildings of the former Southwood Community Hospital on Route 1A in Norfolk didn’t have their stories straight when encountered by Norfolk police a couple of weeks ago, police said. More ... |
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