Endorsements

I am truly grateful for the endorsements I have received. It is humbling when people you admire and respect take the time to write the paper and let others know their opinion of you. I want to share some quotes from these endorsements, in case you missed them... [read more]

Q & A On School Committee Candicacy

I was working with fellow candidate Dawn Torres-Gale last night on some phone banking to get out the vote in this highly contested election. In the process a few questions popped up. Generally if one person has a question, others will too, so I thought that I would post my answers here... [read more]

Steven Hammond Seeks Second Term on WRSD School Committee

Steven Hammond is the only school committee candidate with a record of leadership and commitment. His dedication to representing Holden on the committee is demonstrated by the number of hours he gave, missing only two meetings in three years. He served on the Education Subcommittee all three years, and was vice-chair for the last two. Steven was also vice-chair of the subcommittee to review the regional agreement and chair of the subcommittee to investigate educational disparity across the district. Finally, he served on the school councils at Davis Hill and Mayo schools and he regularly attended meetings of subcommittees discussing the budget with the towns and conducting performance reviews of the superintendent — not because he served on those committees but because it is important to understand the issues involved... [read more]

First Light for Kepler

I’m a few days late in reporting this, but on April 16, 2009 Kepler opened her eyes for the first time. When starlight falls onto a telescope for the first time, Astronomers and telescope makers call that event First Light.

It takes a long time to build any telescope and first light is a special event that marks the completion of the scope. A few years ago, I built my own telescope and I remember first light very well... [read more]

In Review: Around the World in 80 Telescopes

Wow!!

Last weekend was the 100 Hours of Astronomy which was a four-day (duh!) event that is a cornerstone of the International Year of Astronomy. A key part of that event was the 24-hour webcast Around the World in 80 Telescopes. I managed to stay up for about 22-hours of this before a long technical glitch did me in.

I have to say, that, considering what they were attempting there were very few glitches and the event was awesome! You definitely want to check out the videos if you missed them... [read more]