[CPEO-BIF] Keith Middle School, New Bedford, Mass.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group says mayor swayed by politics in Keith review

By Jack Spillane
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
July 30, 2006


NEW BEDFORD - For five years, a disparate group of New Bedford residents 
have been the canaries in the coal mine on the Keith Middle School 
project. They've called themselves Wasted Away, after a line in the 
Jimmy Buffett pop song "Margaritaville."

Wasted Away, more than any other force in the city, refused to accept 
the municipal government's wisdom that building a new middle school on a 
former PCB dump was a good idea. As the level of PCB contamination at 
the Hathaway Road site was found to be greater than expected and as the 
cost of the project ballooned, the group pushed the Kalisz 
administration and the School Department to make the construction 
process public and defend the now $69 million project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-06/07-30-06/02topstories.htm

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Lenny Siegel
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