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• H1N1 Immunization Clinic for Amherst kids Wednesday 11-11-09 @ARMS 9 am - 1 pm

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  If your pediatrician/obstetrician still doesn't have H1N1 immunizations available (like Amherst Pediatrics doesn't for all their patients yet:-( check out the H1N1 Immunization Clinic for Amherst kids Wednesday 11-11-09 @ARMS 9 am - 1 pm.
  
  Q: Who can get the H1N1 immunization at this clinic tomorrow, Wednesday 11-11-09?
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:43am EST
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• RSVP for the private Amherst July 4, 2009 Parade

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  Posted: June 28, 2009, 10:49pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Regionalization Materials File Drawer

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  K-6 Regionalization Study Committee
  
  Saturday, March 7, 2009
  9:30-11:30 a.m.
  Professional Development Center
  Amherst Regional Middle School
  
  AGENDA
  
  1.Charge to the Committee
  
  2.Welcome and Introduction
  Maria Geryk, Interim Superintendent
  Rob Detweiler, Director of Finance and Operations/Meeting Facilitator
  
  3.Historical Perspective on Regionalization
  
  4.Framing the Current [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Remember to Vote TWO Ballots in Amherst tomorrow:-)

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  Remember that in Amherst, you need *two* ballots tomorrow, don't forget in all the excitement! Sample Amherst ballots
  
  How Alisa is voting on Tuesday November 4, 2008:
  
  Aaron Hayden for Amherst Select Board
  
  (and yes, Obama/Biden & all the incumbents)
  
  Questions:
  
  1. NO' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2008, 1:40pm EST
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• BCG FY09+ Budget Forum on Monday February 11th starting at 7 pm in the Middle School Auditorium

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  [copy of email sent to 433 Amherst community members]
  
  OK, folks, attached.pdf hot of the press from the schools (coming home in backpacks on Thursday, I think).
  
  You can also provide a link to the Town website front page, middle:
  http://www.amherstma.gov/
  
  Get it [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2008, 2:39am EST
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• February 5, 2008 Primary Amherst Precinct Returns

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  Clinton-Obama-Other Dems
  
  Precinct 1: 136-291-12
  Precinct 2: 242-477-09
  Precinct 3: 104-213-05
  Precinct 4: 104-213-03 (not a typo!)
  Precinct 5: 167-351-14
  Precinct 6: 305-611-25
  Precinct 7: 236-527-24
  Precinct 8: 364-749-14
  Precinct 9: 194-465-05
  Precinct 10:102-242-07
  Total someone:-) provided: 1954-4139-128 [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 10:28pm EST
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Random wonderings about how Town Meeting is going to go this Fall 2007

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  Interesting excerpt from the David Brooks New York Times "Happiness Gap" column published in The Republican (Springfield, MA) pg A16 Thursday November 1, 2007:
  
  "In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt could launch the New Deal because voters wanted to change the country and their own lives. But today, people want" [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 4:23pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Even as I try to shed some cynicism, Demotivators never let me down

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  ...we need to get rid of cynicism in politics...
  
  although then again, as quoted by Craig Sandler of the State House News Service at the MMA Massachusetts Selectmen's Association Fall Conference on Saturday October 13, 2007:
  
  "No matter how cynical you become, it's never" [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 5:40pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Interpreting the Ethics Laws: No Action Taken by State Ethics Commission

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  Update on the Ethics complaints filed by Larry Kelley:
  
  Daily Hampshire Gazette:
  This just in to the Gazette Newsroom
  
  State ethics complaint against Amherst Select Board members closed without any action taken
  By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer
  
  AMHERST -- The state Ethics Commission [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2007, 12:50pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Annual Town Election Date Announced: Tuesday April 1, 2008

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  Last night the Select Board voted to hold the next Annual Town Election on a date separate from the Presidential Primary of Tuesday March 4, 2008, due to the many pieces of information provided by the Town Clerk and others about the level of complication vs the [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2007, 10:11am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Town Meeting Vacancies: Four Seats Open

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  IN THE NEWS
  Posted 9/28/2007
  
  Town of Amherst Representative Town Meeting Vacancies
  
  The following Town Meeting vacancies exist:
  
  Precinct 3: 1 vacancy
  
  Precinct 7: 1 vacancy
  
  Precinct 10: 2 vacancies
  
  In accordance with Section 1.5422 of the Amherst Town Government Act, [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2007, 10:01am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Interpreting the Ethics Laws

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  Ethics Commission
  
  The vote Mr Kelley didn't like will not be overturned because the Ethics Commission will find that UMass faculty (or faculty wife, in my case) does not have a financial interest in the outcome of the vote, and (b)(3) applies.
  
  I noted the following on' [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2007, 1:33pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Choices for Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 7 pm abound!

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  If you aren't going to the ARMS Open House at 7 pm Thursday September 27, please, please attend the Planning Amherst Together "Premiere" aka "Citizens Review" (yes, I know why people like to use "citizen" in this context, but I much prefer "residents" or' [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2007, 1:21am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 12:08:45 PM
  To: Select Board
  Subject: comments for priorities discussion
  
  Hi all,
  
  I thought I would send along a summary of my comments from last Thursday night's priorities discussion:
  
  1. We need to stop looking at % of revenue' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2007, 12:08pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Vote when to Vote! part 2

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  More analysis on costs. Turns out it's not the case that we'd save a solid $12,000 that we normally think of as the cost of an election, as shown in the spreadsheet provided by our Town Clerk.
  
  Here's our Town Clerk's cover email text:
  
  From: Burgess, Sandra [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2007, 11:39am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Worth a read

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  GavinThink on the role of elected officials [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2007, 11:20am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• What are we arguing about again?

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  One of the most difficult challenges I face in my role as a member of the Select Board is to not become impatient with conversations I feel are both repetitive and endless.
  
  One of the most earnest conversations is the hand-wringing around "economic development isn't going to save us,'" [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2007, 7:56pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Select Board Meeting for Citizen Comment on FY09 Budget Priorities
  September 20, 2007
  
  Comments from Elaine B
  Woodside Ave, Amherst. – 28 year resident
  
  Inherent in this list of budget priorities is my belief that the town must strongly support increased economic development, must establish a multi-year [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2007, 4:33pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Vote when to Vote!

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  Here's the reason I'm collecting purely anecdotal data from the new poll, above:
  
  We normally hold the Annual Town Election (i.e., Moderator, Select Board, School Committee, Jones Library Trustee, Oliver Smith Will Elector, Redevelopment Authority (ARA), Housing Authority, Representative Town Meeting) the last Tuesday of March or first Tuesday [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2007, 11:32am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  AMHERST TAXPAYERS FOR RESPONSIBLE CHANGE
  
  Amherst continues to face an ever increasing structural deficit. Last year, the voters said NO to additional taxation as the way to close the deficit.
  
  In our campaign vs. the override, we put forth our funding priorities to the voters:
  Support for [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2007, 10:30pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Strategic Partnership Agreement with UMass 082307

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  Some attachments just aren't meant for Blogspot, so go on over to my old campaign website for the Strategic Partnership Agreement and the Mutual Aid Agreement .pdfs
  
  I'll post the article from today's Gazette later.
  
  I believe the Ethics Commission will not find any' [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2007, 11:22am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:17:21 AM
  To: Select Board
  Subject: Input on Amherst Budget
  
  PLEASE CONSIDER THIS MONEY-SAVING IDEA:
  
  My husband’s company pays our $165/month premium for a family health insurance policy through my company.
  
  This has been a great incentive for [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2007, 9:17am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• White Privilege

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  I participated in the Anti-Racism Basics for teachers required course at ARPS in January 2003. I grew up in a very white town in Central Pennsylvania, and though I'd thought I'd become the liberal my hometown warned me about, I learned a lot in the course co-facilitated by [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2007, 8:25am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  from Irwin S, handed out at Select Board Priorities Public Hearing Thursday September 20, 2007, and available at AmherstInformed.com
  
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 7:01pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:30:20 PM
  To: Select Board
  Subject: FY 09 budget guidelines
  
  Dear Select Board:
  
  I am finding it inordinately difficult to know how to respond to your invitation for public comment. I would expect -- in fact, I would hope [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 6:30pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:47:17 PM
  To: Select Board
  
  I like these. I found it helpful to strip out the philosophy and focus on the specific suggestions, so I edited them to do that. In case it helps you, too, here's the "abridged" version.
  
  Andy' [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 3:47pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:08:40 PM
  To: Select Board
  Subject: Matching resources with needs and values
  
  Dear members of the Amherst Select Board,
  
  Thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on a conversation that needs to happen with members of our community. [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 12:08pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

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  from Paulette B & H Oldham B
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 10:03am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Amherst & Amherst College

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  Daily Hampshire Gazette, Thursday September 20, 2007
  
  College chief calls for growth Amherst president: Woo more business
  By KRISTIN PALPINI Staff Writer
  
  AMHERST - For the second year in a row, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx used his address at the college's community lunch to [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2007, 9:05am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• FY09 Priorities

  Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:58:49 AM
  To: Select Board
  
  To the Selectboard:
  
  As you consider guidelines for the Town Manager as he prepares his proposed municipal budget, I would urge you to incorporate the following principles:
  
  1. The municipal budget is one component of [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2007, 11:58am EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer

• Congratulations President Hexter!

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  From: Alisa Brewer
  Date: September 18, 2007 6:17:53 PM EDT
  To: Ralph Hexter (HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENT)
  Subject: Fwd: This just in to the Gazette Newsroom / Hampshire president marries 27-year partner
  
  Dear President Hexter & Mr. Kollmeier-
  
  Congratulations on your marriage! I appreciate your willingness to take this step [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 6:16pm EDT
  by Alisa V. Brewer