The Six Town Regionalization Planning Board tasked with exploring the feasibility of merging the Gill-Montague Regional School District and the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is seeking a facilitator to help continue its work into a phase.
Public outreach on potential Pioneer, Gill-Montague merger aimed for fall
Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield. Staff File Photo
Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 4/7/2021 3:07:14 PM
A potential merger of the Gill-Montague Regional School District and the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is still being investigated, though plans for public outreach last year were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee investigating the merger now expects to hold public outreach sessions this fall.
The Six Town Regionalization Planning Board, which has members from all six towns in the two school districts, has been working since the fall of 2019. The exploratory committee has previously explained that the vision for the new district would be to reorganize Pioneer Valley Regional School and Turners Falls High School, so that one would be a middle school and the other a high school. All the currently open e