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and replaced.
• There are no current plans to do any of the upgrades Schuring mentioned, but the size of the projects means that some long term financial planning will be needed to pay for the projects.
• The board moved into executive session to discuss personnel issues.

• -Char Telkamp

• Many of us may remember attending school and seeing a portrait of George Washington prominently displayed within the school. Sadly over the years many of these portraits have been removed. Today a new 30"x36" reproduction painting of Washington, on canvas, in a gilt-trimmed wooden frame hangs in the Groton High School library.
• The painting is the result of a discovery made by jr high civics teacher Jana Duncan. Over the summer, while researching and doing her class planning for teaching jr

high civics, Jana Duncan learned about a program offered through the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
• The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association has made it their goal to celebrate Washington's character, leadership, and accomplishments by offering a beautifully-framed replica of Rembrandt Peale's Porthole Portrait of George Washington to schools free of charge. They feel the disappearance of Washington's portrait corresponds to

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