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Myndi Bogdanovich unseats Beverly Phaneuf on Belchertown School Committee

Monday, May 20, 2013

BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown welcomes newcomer Myndi Bogdanovich to the School Committee this year in an election marked by low voter turnout. Bogdanovich unseated incumbent Beverly Phaneuf with 344 votes to Phaneuf’s 121. The third candidate, Thomas Soja, received 30 votes. Phaneuf had been a member of the school committee for seven years. Bogdanovich is the owner and founder of Myndi B. Photography in Belchertown. She has a son, Ty, in … 0

Goshen Town Meeting approves $2.4 million budget 

Monday, May 20, 2013

GOSHEN — Fifty-nine of 742 registered voters turned out for Monday’s annual Town Meeting, passing a fiscal 2014 budget of $2,423,530, which includes $630,888 for the Chesterfield-Goshen School District, $399,350 for the Hampshire Regional School District and $229,294 for Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School. Much of the evening’s discourse focused on the Chesterfield-Goshen Regional School District budget. The district had requested $644,341 … 0

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, campaigns with Massachusetts Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Gabriel Gomez, second from left, at the Boston Police VFW Post in Boston, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Massachusetts US Senate candidates spar over homeland security

Monday, May 20, 2013

BOSTON — The candidates running in the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts traded barbs Monday over homeland security in an exchange that pointed to an increasingly sharp tone between the two. Republican Gabriel Gomez said it was unconscionable that his opponent, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, voted twice against resolutions to honor the … 0

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