Former Warwick Selectboard member announces write-in campaign for open seat
Published: 5/14/2021 3:14:28 PM
WARWICK With just a few days to go before Monday’s town election, Alan Genovese has announced a write-in campaign to pursue the open three-year term on the Selectboard.
A former Warwick Selectboard member, having served as chair during his term in the mid-2000s, Genovese said he had carefully considered whether to run for election this year, and shared a written statement to introduce himself to voters ahead of Monday’s election. In-person polling hours will be at Town Hall from noon to 4 p.m.
“Although I was not born and raised here, I have been a resident of Warwick for over 30 years and very much enjoy the benefits that this small rural community has to offer,” he wrote. “However, we are not without our challenges. We have to balance our support for providing a quality education for our students within the context of maintaining our local government and town
Warwick appoints six members to Pro Tempore School Governance Committee
The entrance to the former Warwick Community School, which town officials hope to reopen as an independent elementary school. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
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WARWICK Continuing discussions from two weeks ago, the Selectboard voted to create a Pro Tempore School Governance Committee that will develop plans for an independent elementary school, and appointed six new members.
The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee voted in January 2020 to cease use of the Warwick Community School building and its 25-acre property, which is owned by Warwick, as a cost-saving measure, a decision that Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Commissioner Jeffrey Riley later approved. Since then, members of the Warwick Education Committee have been holding regular meetings in hopes of reopening the Warwick Community School as an independent elementary school.
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