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Week in Review: School Funding, Obama's Inauguration on MLK Day and Landmarks
Also, a car crashed into a fire hydrant in Benedict Canyon, sending water 200 feet into the air and damaging a home.
The Beverly Hills Board of Education approved the city’s proposal to plug this coming year’s education budget deficit by shifting $4 million from Beverly Hills' surplus to the school district. Read about that and more top stories from Jan. 20-26.
1. School board President Jacob Manaster, Vice President Noah Margo, Mayor William Brien and Councilman Julian Gold came up with a plan Jan. 11 aimed at preventing staff and school program cuts.
2. & 3. President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term, coinciding with the nation's holiday observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
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4. Six Beverly Hills properties received landmark status after a unanimous City Council vote.
5. A car crashed into a fire hydrant in the Beverly Crest area of Benedict Canyon, sending water shooting 200 feet into overhead power lines and onto a nearby house, whose occupants had to be helped outside by firefighters.
