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Rebecca McMeekin, left, and Janet Watton, respectively the executive director and board president of the Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, celebrate with other Chandler board members at Saturday's groundbreaking for a $3.2-million expansion and renovation of the 101-year-old arts center. Work will begin this summer and is expected to be finished in September of 2010. About 650 donors contributed during the two years of the fund drive, and Randolph, Braintree, and Brookfield all pledged public money toward the centennial project. Photography by Bob Eddy