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New Coach for Varsity Field Hockey at Staples High School

Friday, July 17th, 2009

The Athletic Director at Westport’s Staples High School, Marty Lisevick, has appointed Cecily Cowburn to be the new Varsity Field Hockey Coach. Renee Gould will continue as the JV Coach and a new Freshman coach will be announced prior to the beginning of the season. Cowburn has been teaching in the Westport School District for seven years. She was a scholar athlete and senior captain for Division 1, Syracuse University from 1997-2000, and currently plays in a highly competitive club hockey league in the metro NY area. Last year Cowburn coached the Freshman team and they had a very impressive season.

A special Body Blast for Varsity field hockey will take plave each day during the week of August 24th, 2009 and all players are strongly encouraged to attend. Try-outs start the following week on August 31st.

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Staples Students Planning Rally

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

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p50401392Staples students planning rally on steps of Town Hall today to protest budget cuts.  Staples Players planning on singing at steps of Town Hall. The rally is to begin at 5:00 and the RTM meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30.

On 4/28, there was an important meeting held by the RTM Finance Committee to discuss the BOE budgets for 2009-10.  The first part of the mtg was a unanimous acceptance of the Town Budget, followed by a proposal from the Chair of the RTM Finance Committee, to recommend to the full RTM to cut an additional $1 million (beyond the $1.4 million already cut by the BOF in April) from the BOE budget.  

This Tuesday May 5th, the full RTM will vote on whether to accept the BOE budget as is.  The budget they will vote on already included the $1.4 million cut by the BOF.  

This cut has yet to be detailed by the BOE in the line items.  We have no idea how the BOF $1.4 million cut will affect the students. The budget has very little flexibility for Staples High School.

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