Ken Cleveland
Item Correspondent
The Nashoba School District’s elementary and middle schools will “stay the course” after the winter break.
The Regional School Committee voted Dec. 21 to stay with the status quo, but with the understanding that the schools could end up shifting to remote learning if circumstances required a change, such as inadequate school staffing levels needed to maintain the hybrid model.
“If we stay the course,” Chairman Kathy Codianne said, “it doesn’t mean we won’t find ourselves in a full remote.”
The decision may be made by others, such as the Board of Health, if necessary, and “may not be our choice,” she said.
Paxton family paying it forward
Ken Cleveland
Special to The Landmark
PAXTON What started as a conversation last Christmas has a Paxton family helping others this season.
Sarah Petersen’s 25-year-old daughter, Ashlynn, and twin 20-year-old boys Trevor and Carter “do not need anything and anything that they want they tend to buy for themselves.
“We decided together that we wanted to pay it forward and help another family this year. My parents instilled the art of giving in me as a young child, and I have always tried to do the same thing along with my husband, Gregg, in our children.”
Special to The Landmark
HOLDEN “It could have gone the other way,” Kim McLaren said of her son’s experience, when emergency responders saved his life.
“As a parent, I hope you never have to have the experience of seeing your child go blue and in an ambulance not knowing if he was alive or dead.”
McLaren praised the personnel who responded in September when her 3-year-old son Max was choking.
The call came in from the home that little Max was choking, and dispatcher Mike McKiernan sent fire personnel to the home, followed in minutes by the ambulance, Fire Chief Russ Hall said.