By Nancy Beal

Nearly 40 Jonesporters turned out last week for a second look at a budget for their elementary school. It was a mob compared to the handful of voters who rejected an earlier version of the budget in a late May meeting at which two of the three school board members were absent. 

Word had spread about the earlier failure, and, as several of the school’s teachers had firmly predicted, the “right” people were there at the second meeting and approved the budget by a vote of 30 to 2.