Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We can’t thank you enough for your hard work in getting the school building design funds passed through Town Meeting and Town Election. YOUR enthusiasm, YOUR advocacy, YOUR dedication, YOUR phone calls, YOUR sign-holding.

YOUR votes.

We admit we were really nervous as we walked into the Duxbury Middle School gym yesterday evening to await the vote tallys. It could go either way, we thought. And it really could have had it not been for YOU. DuxburyCARES is YOU.

The final counts looked like this:


           Precinct 1    Precinct 2    Precinct 3    Precinct 4    Precinct 5    Precinct 6    Totals
YES        365              487             480              361              335             257           2285
NO         276              389             218              205              214             190           1492



So what’s next?

First of all, we hope you will take a bit of a breather. You deserve it.

The School Building Committee will go forward with their work with the MSBA and potential designers. When designer interviews and presentations are scheduled, we’ll post information about those meetings here and on the Facebook page. We’ll keep you informed as the process moves forward.

We’d like to keep up some visibility of the organization through the summer months, perhaps hosting a fundraiser for the funds we’ll need to advertise and promote the project again in advance of  the special town meeting and election that will be required to secure the construction funds. If you have some ideas for that, please let us know.

Thank you again, to each and every one of you. Thank you for recognizing our school facilities need to be addressed now and that a new co-located middle school and high school is the best, most cost-effective, most efficient long-term way to address the need for the children and the community as a whole.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.