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Special education classes at Cambridge Street Public School and Centennial Public School escaped cutbacks by the school board in early March as a funding shortfall of almost $28 million forced trustees to make tough budget decisions.
No reduction in services and no increased user fees is the message that Somerset Ward residents want Coun. Diane Holmes to take to city council when she votes on this year’s city budget.
Morning sun lights up the dusty classroom and the smell of lumber wafts from the corner where a student cuts a wooden letter with his jigsaw.
As the city nears the detailed design phase of its plan to replace Little Italy’s century-old sewer, the Preston Street BIA is protesting that it is nothing but a trade-off of flooded basements for flooded streets.