Bob Holmes

4 weeks ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – It’s a scenario that Nancy Ziemlak understands could play out. On May 13, the parents of Reading’s roughly 4,000 school children will flock to the RMHS Fieldhouse, likely in overwhelming support of the $130 million Killam School project. As the lawn signs suggest, they’ll vote yes for Killam. It’s what happens next that concerns Ziemlak, the chair of the Council on Aging.

1 month ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – It’s a scenario that Nancy Ziemlak understands could play out. On May 13, the parents of Reading’s roughly 4,000 school children will flock to the RMHS Fieldhouse, likely in overwhelming support of the $130 million Killam School project. As the lawn signs suggest, they’ll vote yes for Killam. It’s what happens next that concerns Ziemlak, the chair of the Council on Aging.

1 month ago | sapiens.org | Bob Holmes

This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽LISTEN CAREFULLY TO a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—“mm-hmm,” “um,” “huh?,” and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the conversation itself.

1 month ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – Maybe it was just a coincidence that on the day the fourth quarter tax bills arrived in resident’s mailboxes, Reading held a joint community forum on the Killam School and the Reading Center For Active Living projects at the RMHS Performing Arts Center. The purpose of Wednesday’s forum was to inform residents why Reading is asking them for $130 million to build a new Killam School and $27.9 million to build a new senior/community center.

1 month ago | homenewshere.com | Bob Holmes

READING – Tuesday’s third Reading Center for Active Living Forum was filled with assurances to the senior community that they were top dog in the new center. It also had numbers to show the effect of what a new senior/community center and a new Killam School would do to resident’s taxes. “There will be 60-plus activities all day, every day,” said Community Services Director Jenna Wood.