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From a press release The Arlington community is invited to a series of forums on the FY 2011 Arlington Public Schools budget. The forums will be held at the Education Center Board Room (1426 N. Quincy St.) on Saturday Nov. 14, 9a.m. APS Superintendent Dr. Patrick K. Murphy recently reported that the school division is facing a budget shortfall this year of $11.1 million and that additional budget savings of $47.4 million will need to be realized in the next budget. Murphy announced last week that APS is instituting a hiring freeze for all non-classroom positions. He also directed that training courses at venues outside the county be curtailed, and that only courses where APS has a compelling business reason to attend will be approved. Overtime is also being reduced, and is permitted only to address emergencies outside of normal business hours. Murphy has indicated that any personnel reductions this year would take place through attrition, and in a memo to the APS staff, he indicated...
Make your holiday shopping easy...skip the malls, the crowds, and enjoy free parking! Shop fair trade and help support other important non-profit organizations. Jewelry, clothing, Christmas ornaments, crafts, handcrafted toys, coffee, art and more! Sunday Nov. 15, 2009. 9:30a.m. to 1p.m. First Presbyterian Church of Arlington
This supports: Ten Thousand Villages; Heifer Project International; Just Coffee; Salvation Army; Angel Tree; Woodmont Weavers; Coalition for Courage; Amani Ya Ju; Educate the Girls; Make Peace; Pueblo a Pueblo; Dress a Bear or Doll; and more! I meant, of course, to get this short video up last week, you know, right after Halloween, but didn't. Here it is now. A short video of a couple dozen photos, no sound. Find your ghoul! The annual parade through Buckingham and Arlington Forest took place Friday, Oct. 30. As is the case every year, hundreds of kids, faculty and staff turned out for the fun. --ST Click the "Photos" link, above. I tried a different take since I was sick: I posted photos without a story. All the photos get aggregated on that page; if there is a story that goes with the photo, you'll find a link back to the story, there. You can upload your own photos, too--if you have a Library Night, or Arlington Forest's 70th Birthday bash photo or another you'd like to share, just hover your mouse over "Post" and then choose "Upload Photo." --ST This blog always feels half-built, and one of the main reasons is that just as I get going, something happens and I start all over. Very little momentum. Last weekend I was sick, and all the work I had planned has now been delayed or been cut shorter than I would have liked. Still, I like what’s going on at the HeraldTrib, and I’m still learning the ropes of the new site. Comments thus far on the new site have been generally positive, and I thought I’d respond to a couple just to let people know what’s going on here. BobArlington asked: “Why did you switch to the new Blog vendor? What's better about this service?” A couple things. First, it allows for more stories per page and allows me to post a story to the top of the front page while simultaneously posting another to the “more stories” page. In Google’s Blogger (the old site), I had to remember to post stories in the correct order so that the most important ended up...
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