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ADELYN HEUER, 9 months old, of Cumberland, checks out a bunny at the petting
zoo during the Cumberland Recreation Department's Spring Festival.
BREEZE PHOTOS
BY BILL MURPHY
MILES
PIESCIENSKI,
1, of Cumberland,
finds an egg dur-
ing the Easter
Egg Hunt at the
Cumberland
Recreation
Department's
Spring Festival
at the Monastery
on Sunday. See
more photos on
Page 30. For a
listing of Easter
church services,
see Page 28.
Easter egg-citement
Cumberland
grad wins big
at R.I. Film
Festival
Oscar winner Hampson
is back in R.I., filming
with Robert Redford
CUMBERLAND – Erika Hampson,
who grew up in Cumberland and grad-
uated from Cumberland High School in
1995, knew little about what the future
would hold for her
when she first worked
as a production assistant
on the very first season
of the TV show "Law &
Order Criminal Intent."
Now, she has an
Oscar win under her
belt, a 2016 Rhode
Island Film Festival
award and is cur-
rently working on her latest movie,
"Discovery," starring Robert Redford.
Hampson, who was on the CHS
debate team during her high school
years, graduated from Boston College
and now lives in New York City, has
spent her days working on the set of
films that have starred Mark Ruffalo,
Zoe Saldana, Donna Sutherland, Judy
By BRITTANY BALLANTYNE
Valley Breeze Staff Writer
brittany@valleybreeze.com
School
budget
pushes tax
hike limit
CUMBERLAND – More school
counselors for the system's youngest
students, expanded "STEAM" program-
ming, reopening school libraries, and an
English language learners coordinator
are among the initiatives in a $64-million
budget presented last week by Supt. Bob
Mitchell.
New local tax dollars to support the
plan total $1,656,200, the state's maxi-
mum-allowed 4 percent increase, accord-
ing to his presentation, but town officials
are disputing the numbers and calling it
"an invalid budget" that would actually
need a 5.2 percent increase.
At the heart of the dispute is the
$517,000 in the town's Chromebook
funding this year that school officials
were counting toward the "maintenance
of effort" funding that, once allocated,
can't be reduced in the following year's
budget.
According to state law, residents of a
By MARCIA GREEN
Valley Breeze Editor
mgreen@valleybreeze.com
HAMPSON
CUMBERLAND
See SCHOOL BUDGET, Page 8
See HAMPSON, Page 20
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