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• How Scituate schools are spending an $883,000 surplus this year

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📰 News we're reading

• Scituate School Committee Revises Budgets, OKs Air Policy (upriseri.com) — Scituate's School Committee has reworked this year's budget, steering an $883,000 surplus into one-time needs like safer kitchen equipment, classroom furniture, and planning for a new CTE wing. Members also approved an indoor air quality policy, the annual crisis plan, and a corrected support staff contract, and outlined calendar changes including school closures for the art festival and holiday.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Johnston

• Roundup: JHS volleyball bounces back after first loss (johnstonsunrise.net)
• Anaergia purchases two bioenergy facilities in the US (biofuelsdigest.com)
• 'Miracle': Wife donates kidney to husband days before wedding anniversary (newsnationnow.com)

Cranston

• STV Completes $74.5M Behavioral Healthcare Facility Renovation in Rhode Island (constructionowners.com)
• Cranston man, juvenile arrested after firearm report near Cranston High School East (turnto10.com)

Providence

• Pawtucket Man Charges With Reckless Driving, Resisting, Disorderly Conduct: Cops (patch.com)

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