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A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.

A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.

Westmeath VEC Adult Education Service is bringing its information road show around the county in February to mark the Aontas Adult Learners Festival 2009. The Adult Learners Festival is celebrated on a national basis throughout the country and is organised primarily by local learners in conjunction with their VECs. The information road show will be headed by the Literacy Service, VTOS, Back to Education Initiative, Community Education, and the Guidance Service.

Fianna Fail has confirmed the three candidates to contest the Kilbeggan electoral area for June’s local elections.

Prizes for this year’s Mullingar St Patrick's Day Parade will be presented at an awards ceremony in the Greville Arms Hotel (Belvedere Suite) this Friday March 27 at 8pm.

Students from four Westmeath schools are heading to the RDS, Dublin on May 6 for the Young Social Innovators Showcase 2009.

“It’s a great honour to have the conference here,” said Westmeath’s Chief Fire Officer of the two day Chief Fire Officers’ Association conference in Mullingar this week.

In a quiet week for the planning department, it is mildly ironic that in the middle of an election campaign two projects to harness and measure wind have been green-lighted in Co Westmeath.

Thirteen primnary schools in Westmeath are to receive an Award of Science Excellence this year as part of the Discover Primary Science programme.

As the crunch continues its restrictions and house-building nationally is to drop from 90,000 per annum in 2006 to an estimated 10,000 this year, it is heartening to see a firm called Ardleigh Developments has been given permission to build 30 new homes in a mixed development on the Rhode Road in Rochfortbridge.