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HB Letters

We need all-day voting in Hollis and Brookline

To the Editor: As a senior I find it very hard to participate and sit through the extremely long School and Town Meetings – they totally burn us out. The meeting is stacked with teachers and people that benefit from us giving up and leaving. They filibuster and play on emotions to ...

Hollis Brookline High school needs expansion to keep NEASC accreditation

To the Editor- Brookline and Hollis have an important decision to make on Wednesday, March 26, at what I hope will be our final meeting for the co-op this year. I attended the public hearing for the bond back in February, prepared to say “no, we cannot afford this right ...

The Hollis Brookline apportionment debate

To the Editor: In each of our towns, we pool the costs of our schools. We happen to live within the same town boundaries, so we share together as a community in the cost of educating the children. Taxpayers aren’t charged according to the number of children they send to the school. ...

Is paying for the Hollis Brookline Co-op a fee or tax?

To the Editor: Recent discussions around the co-op apportionment formula resulted in two very different directions all in the name of “fairness.” The data that Tom Gehan presented at the co-op meeting was based on the goal that residents should all pay the same dollar ...

I witness travesty of injustice towards our democracy

To the Editor: On this day, March 6, I witness a travesty against the democratic order of this country. Something that is so near and dear to many people is their right to participate in a democratic process when it has a significant bearing on their financial situation, especially in these ...

Thanks for the support for Katie Hamilton

To the Editor: On behalf of our family who took our Sixth Annual Mark Frattaroli Memorial Plunge to benefit the Hamilton Family Fund on February 15th, we’d like to say thank you to all who sponsored us. Katie was killed in an automobile accident on Christmas Eve. Our hope was to ...