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Voters in Little Town Say No To Selling School To Pot Farm

Matthew McDonald

Voters in the western Massachusetts town of Heath have rejected a proposal by the town's selectmen to sell a closed school for $250,000 to a business that wants to use it to cultivate marijuana.

The proposal required a two-thirds majority at Town Meeting, but got only a simple majority, 95-77. (That's 55 to 45 percent and 20 votes short of two-thirds, but a local news story in the Greenfield Recorder describes the result as "just shy.")

Around New England

High Schools Getting Rid of Class Rankings – Kids Can’t Stand the Stress

Matthew McDonald

Three high schools south of Boston have gotten rid of class rankings in an effort to take stress of their students, and another is about to go that route.

Milton, Hingham, and Duxbury have all stopped ranking students except for the top two, and Marshfield plans to do the same, according to the Patriot Ledger.

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