HAMPDEN/WILBRAHAM – The Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District (HWRSD) hosted its second budget roundtable of the year on March 3 and was joined by the Hampden Advisory Board, the Wilbraham Finance Committee and the Boards of Selectmen from both towns.
gates in kabul and whether these individuals can attack the united states. so i guess the simple question is, acknowledging that you re going to try to limit what access they do have to some of the weaponry in ways that you can t communicate here, but at the end of the day, whether it s not the united states that s under risk as a function of this, are americans around the globe, i mean, are western interests now more at risk because the taliban has new access to all this weaponry? well, again, peter, i would say that we the world will be watching. we have an enormous amount of leverage, including access to the global marketplace, which is not a small piece of leverage, to the taliban, who are now overseeing large swaths of afghanistan. certainly, our objective was not to leave them with any equipment, but that is not always an option when you are looking to retrograde and move out of a war zone. but that is our clear leverage we have with the taliban, and again, our capacities a
we asking people we re asking our residents to stay home as much as possible, to survey your properties, we re trying the best we can to identify as many water leaks as we possibly can. from the amount of uprooted trees that we have had, it damaged a lot of water mains, and our water distribution system right now is currently operating at maybe about 25%. so, my most urgent concern right now is to get our water distribution system back up to par. all right, peter dufresne, st. james parish president, thank you so much. we re now going to go to the white house. this is press secretary jen psaki. president and his homeland security team continue to monitor the impacts of hurricane ida, something that he was monitoring through the course of the weekend. this was an extremely large and powerful hurricane, and as expected early reports suggest catastrophic damage in a number of areas along the gulf coast. and while ida has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, it is going to contin
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do