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PASSADUMKEAG – Graduates of Maine’s only college training program for operators of mechanized logging and forest trucking equipment were recognized Nov. 9 at the site where they have spent recent weeks completing the final, trucking stage of the program after months harvesting timber using sophisticated state-of-the-art machines like those they will encounter in the logging industry.
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A diverse group of 60 METCO and Wayland students, parents and staff from Wayland Middle and High schools boarded three buses on May 8 for a tour of historic cultural sites in Boston neighborhoods. Just a few miles from tourists trekking downtown’s Freedom Trail, they visited the Boston places where history was made by people of color and their supporters Malcolm X’s Boston home, Freedom House and Bethel AME Church.
The event was funded by The Boston Bridges Initiative, a recently formed organization that supports cross-racial social engagement across the Greater Boston area.
The tour concluded at the Roxbury Heritage State Park, where students and bus drivers enjoyed Caribbean food outdoors, courtesy of vendor Jamaica Mi Hungry. Can the Duck Boats beat that?
Curtis was selected from four candidates on a 4-3 vote with Mayor Linda Tyer, Daniel Elias, William Cameron and Chairwoman Katherine Yon voting in his favor. Member Dennis Powell, the only supporter of Portia Bonner, a Connecticut administrator, publicly resigned from the committee in protest after the vote. It s unfortunate, and I really felt that at the beginning of this whole process, I could have wrote this ending, that s the way this whole process was run, Powell said before signing out of the Zoom meeting. So really, unfortunately, I just have to take the position and I m just going to resign from this body, input my energy for the community somewhere where I think I will have a voice.
PITTSFIELD â On Tuesday evening, two educators pitched themselves as the best choice for superintendent of Pittsfield Public Schools, in the final night of interviews a day before the School Committee makes its decision.
Arthur Unobskey, superintendent of Wayland Public Schools, and Marisa Mendonsa, principal of Mohawk Trail Regional High School in Buckland, outlined their backgrounds and educational philosophies before the seven-member School Committee.
Unobskey, also a former principal in Boston Public Schools, and English language coordinator and assistant superintendent in Gloucester Public Schools, called Pittsfield a âdynamic city that has not only tremendous assets, [but also] tremendous potential for growth and a tremendous dedication to the children.â