A resident whose family member was passed over for a teaching position at Haines School has collected 150 signatures on a local-hire petition.

The petition is being circulated by Charlie DeWitt, a former borough assemblyman and former high school shop teacher. The petition states support for local hire and for the hiring of daughter-in-law Lexie DeWitt to a fourth-grade teaching job she held last year, filling in for a teacher on sabbatical.

Lexie DeWitt was…