School project clears a hurdle

Plans for a new high school soon will be moving through the permitting process after 98 percent of voters at Special Town Meeting on Saturday appropriated funding for the $81.6 million project. The vote was 1,426 in favor, 31 against. The turnout was the largest in memory for a Wilmington town meeting, with more than 9 percent of 15,385 registered voters in attendance.