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Council fails to approve school budget [update]

Wed, 05/20/2009 - 10:46pm — jmcdaid

With a large and vocal contingent of Prudence Islanders sharing their concerns about the closing of their school, the Portsmouth Town Council tonight, by a 5-2 vote, failed to approve the $35M school budget as presented, instead asking the School Committee to meet urgently for further deliberations.

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Editorial note: The meeting didn't wrap until 9:45. More details tomorrow.

Oh, and there'll be some stuff about Tailgunner Gleason's performance. Wow.

[Update: The rewrite was just so massive I made it a new post.]