SOUTH DEERFIELD Students in the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts “met or exceeded expectations” on their MCAS tests for the pandemic-affected school year, according to Secondary Education Director Sarah Mitchell.Speaking during a.
Schools around Franklin County are beginning to launch this year’s pooled testing program following weeks-long delays caused by staffing issues on the state level.Pooled testing, a state-funded program that first launched in February, provides.
Following a testy Zoom meeting Wednesday with more than 200 members of the public in attendance, health officials and school committee members approved a policy requiring students, faculty and staff at all five Frontier Regional and Union 38 district.
Land acquisitions, proposed solar bylaw changes on table at Conway Town Meeting
Published: 6/3/2021 4:33:30 PM
CONWAY Voters will weigh in on 29 articles during Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting, including revised solar array bylaws, proposed land acquisitions as part of the South River Flood Resiliency Project and a $6.3 million operating budget.
The meeting will be held on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. in the Conway Grammar School gymnasium.
Residents will vote on revising zoning bylaws pertaining to large-scale solar projects, which would involve approving a new special permit process. The original solar bylaw was drafted in 2011.
Planning Board Chair Beth Girshman explained the revised bylaw would not affect private projects. The special permit process would allow the board to better address individual concerns and have “more oversight on a case-by-case basis.”
With track project under budget, Frontier School Committee plans use of extra money
The cost to construct a new track at Frontier Regional School, pictured, came in at a lower bid than expected. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
By MARY BYRNE
SOUTH DEERFIELD With the cost of a track construction project coming in at a lower bid than expected, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved a series of proposals on Tuesday concerning how to spend the excess money budgeted for the work, including the purchase of new track equipment and a nine- or 14-passenger van.
“Earlier this year, we talked about using $200,000 of (excess and deficiency funds) to offset the cost of the track,” Superintendent Darius Modestow explained. “The track numbers were projected to be coming in at possibly up to $800,000 and change, but the track came in at $638,750. We now have a problem kind of a good problem which is we put money aside to use E and D.”