Wicked Local
FRANKLIN When school officials took up the question more than a year ago about whether the time has come to retire the Davis Thayer School, they knew they were taking on a question charged with emotion.
In the end, they could not ignore the writing on the chalk board when faced with the facts: Shrinking enrollment, stretched budgets, and the challenges of meeting modern educational standards in an aging, expensive-to-maintain building that in just three years will turn 100.
With a modicum of discussion, and an air of resignation, the School Committee on Tuesday voted 5-2 to shutter the town s oldest school building after this school year and re-assign its students to the Helen Keller Elementary School two miles away on Lincoln Street. The one hang-up for the two members who voted against the decision was the timing of the closing.
long time before making landfall. this area doesn t get this kind of rain this often and some areas have seen over 12 inches of rain and a lot of areas five to eight inches. a vast area normally extremely dry and when the ground is that dry it doesn t absorb the water it runs off quickly and that is what we are seeing. there is a lot more rain still to be had across texas and it is slowly moving towards the north. i think we will see repeat scenes like this that you are looking at across areas of oklahoma into arkansas and missouri over the next couple of days, shep. i wonder what it is that caused this amount of volume to happen at this spot at this time. i don t know if we know, do we? you get that much rain and you will see that. the smaller streams and dry running area for most of the year don t have any water in them. this area hasn t seen much rain this summer. extremely dry the last couple of months and now get 12 inches of rain in about a day and you will get mass