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School officials crunching numbers for ’22-23 budgets By Laura B. Hayden By the end of January, North Central Connecticut school superintendents began to officially propose budgets for the 2022-23 academic year —to be finalized in the spring. Once again, these projections, so far made public by
Somers, Suffield, and Stafford, have been influenced by the challenge of teaching in the shadow of the COVID19 and otherwise nonnegotiable expenses due to contractual obligations and state mandates.
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Taking some time out for a Man-A-Cure John Harbaugh gets a trim from barber Tony Calabro at the Man-A-Cure event at at Old School Harley-Davidson in Ellington on Jan. 13. For more photos, see Pages 9. Photo by Joshua Esan
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