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The timeline for Swampscott students return
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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The countdown is on to more in-person learning in Swampscott. At the Swampscott School Committee meeting on March 10, Swampscott Superintendent Pamela Angelakis presented an enhanced timeline for students’ return.
“I’m really, really excited,” Angelakis said.
Here’s a quick look at the schedule:
March 22: Swampscott High School returns to a five-day hybrid schedule (with days beginning at 8:10 a.m., instead of the recent 9 a.m.). The SHS Wednesday half-day becomes a full day. All special education students at elementary schools return to their original classrooms.
Swampscott Town Meeting OKs $2.1M to repair roof, expand school-building study s scope
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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Swampscott Special Town Meeting approved two funding requests - $1.9 million to replace part of the Middle School roof and $165,000 to extend the feasibility study for a new elementary school.
“We’ve been chasing leaks for the last few years,” Swampscott Facilities Director Max Kasper said about the middle school roof, parts of which date back to 1992.
“We cannot continue to have water infiltrating into the building. We’ve had warping floors in the gym. We don’t want to see the water disintegrating structural components of the building,” he added.
Officials promise fines for blight
Town gave property owners until Sept. 15 to address issues and concerns
William J. Dowd
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A pair of Swampscott commercial property owners has for the third time been mailed official outreach notices by the local building inspector for allegedly violating the town’s blighted property bylaw.
The dilapidated properties the town argues remain in violation include the old gas station at 182 Paradise Road – owned by Best Petroleum – as well as the old General Glover House Restaurant at 299 Salem St. – owned by the Sunbeam Development Limited Partnership (Sunbeam).