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Vol. 15, No. 10
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MARCH 7 - 13,
In the wake of the recent school
shootings in Parkland, Florida, the
Marlboro School district has been
discussing their safety and security
measures that are in place in the district.
Superintendent Michael Brooks said
the past few weeks have been particularly
difficult for everyone in education
“because we are seeing images on the
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Marlboro deals with school safety
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
2018
screen that we shouldn’t be seeing in
schools. I have spent an awful lot of time
thinking and commiserating when I see
those images.” He said recent events have
forced discussions that “should not be
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S ection 9 C hamps
District
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in value
Marlboro 2018-19 budget
still in development
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
In the next six weeks the Marlboro
School budget for the 2018-19 school year
will undergo numerous revisions before
final numbers are approved and inserted
into a document that will go before the
voters on May 15. During last week’s
budget presentation, Patrick Witherow,
Director of Business and Finance,
stressed that with “every presentation the
numbers should get tighter and tighter;
so the numbers here are not set in stone
but it is where we are as of today. I expect
there will be some changes [but] nothing
significant and we will be fine tuning [it]
up until the day of final adoption.”
Witherow said last week the district
submitted their tax cap levy calculations
to the state Comptroller’s office.
“This year for the first time in four
years, we see the ability to have growth
in our levy,” he said. “[In] the last three
years we’ve seen a reduction in the levy
every single year based on increased
building aide”- resulting in a $830,235
increase in the levy from last year. For
the 2017-18 school year the tax cap levy
equaled $33,948,733 and for the 2018-19
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Jaiden Allen and John Perugino celebrate Marlboro’s Section 9 Class B title, last weekend at SUNY Orange. Story on page 34.
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