BETHEL Four Bethel select board members voted to leave the proposed short term rental ordinance on the floor of the editing room. It will not be brought forward to a public hearing on May 15 nor will it be on this year’s town meeting warrant. Only Select Board Member Lori Swain voted to move […]
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REGION At the June 14 school board meeting, Superintendent Dave Murphy spoke on a pilot program that is in the works with the University of Poitiers in Poitiers, France for the upcoming school year.
“We have had several conversations with the school and things seem to be moving in a positive direction,” Murphy said.
Murphy said if things work out SAD 44 would be the first American school system to have a partnership with the university.
“We are looking at having people begin to apply for a visa and then the person would be based at Crescent Park and shared between grade levels for the first year acting as a teaching assistant,” Murphy said. “We would then look at how that goes and build a program from that.”
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BETHEL Monday, board members voted 8-6 against shifting to remote learning for two weeks following Christmas Vacation in order to keep the student body safer.
School Nurse Chris Cole made the suggestion of going remote for two weeks, with her main reason being the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s get-togethers, which she believes will happen despite public health officials advising against them.
Members Marcy Winslow (Woodstock), Jamie Hastings (Bethel), Stephanie Erickson (Newry), Erin Cooley (Greenwood), Danny Whitney (Bethel), Wendy Coffin (Woodstock), Tammy Goodwin (Greenwood) and Meredith Harrop (Newry) voted against the motion, while members Sarah DeCato (Bethel), Carol Everett (Bethel), Maggie Davis (Bethel), Stephanie Herbeck (Bethel), Martha McLean (Greenwood) and Sheryl Morgan (Woodstock) were in favor.