Greenfield Notebook: May 10, 2021
The Moose Lodge at 20 School St. in Greenfield. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 5/9/2021 4:00:11 PM
Nomination papers now available
GREENFIELD Nomination papers for the city election are now available at the City Clerk’s Office, which is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
According to a notice from City Clerk Kathy Scott, all candidates must obtain signatures from registered voters in Greenfield to be put on the Nov. 2 ballot. (A preliminary election will be held in the event that double plus one of the amounts of candidates returning nomination papers.) Nomination papers must be returned to Scott by Tuesday, July 27.
Greenfield School Committee moves forward with superintendent search, sets salary range
Greenfield School Committee member Jean Wall heads up the Superintendent Search Committee. Staff File Photo/Melina Bourdeau
Published: 4/15/2021 6:55:06 PM
GREENFIELD The new school superintendent search is moving along, with the School Committee voting Wednesday night to post the position by April 21 and schedule the beginning of the application review process five weeks later, on May 28.
Early in the meeting during the public comment portion, before the discussion about the superintendent search began, Greenfield resident Doug Selwyn asked why the School Committee is just now starting the search.
“Why are you starting at this late day if you knew this was coming in September?” he asked.
Warwick secures funding for Antioch University partnership to create summer program
The former Warwick Community School campus and adjacent Mount Grace State Park will be the site of a Summer Recreation and Arts Program being created through a partnership between the town and Antioch University of Keene, N.H. Staff File Photo/Dan Little
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WARWICK The Arts Council, Recreation Committee and other town officials have provided the necessary funding to partner with Antioch University of Keene, N.H., to create learning activities for a Summer Recreation and Arts Program geared toward children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Warwick secures funding for Antioch University partnership to create summer program
The former Warwick Community School campus and adjacent Mount Grace State Park will be the site of a Summer Recreation and Arts Program being created through a partnership between the town and Antioch University of Keene, N.H. Staff File Photo/Dan Little
Modified: 4/16/2021 2:25:51 PM
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WARWICK The Arts Council, Recreation Committee and other town officials have provided the necessary funding to partner with Antioch University of Keene, N.H., to create learning activities for a Summer Recreation and Arts Program geared toward children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
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.