Grant to increase Warwick Police patrols, buy speed enforcement equipment
Warwick Police Chief David Shoemaker, pictured outside the Police Station in 2017. With the $9,155 it was awarded from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s Office of Grants and Research, the Police Department plans to increase patrols during April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month and buy new speed enforcement equipment. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 4/5/2021 3:04:36 PM
WARWICK With the $9,155 it was awarded from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s Office of Grants and Research, the Police Department plans to increase patrols during April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month and buy new speed enforcement equipment.
WARWICK Prompted by the statewide police reform legislation that became law in December, the Selectboard unanimously approved the use-of-force policy presented by Police Chief David Shoemaker this week.“We’re all aware of the new police reform.
Warwick to work with Antioch University to develop summer program, academic curriculum
Warwick Community School.
Published: 2/19/2021 3:07:46 PM
WARWICK Following an affirmative vote from the Selectboard this week, Warwick will work with faculty and interns at Antioch University in Keene, N.H., to design a curriculum in advance of reopening the town’s elementary school and to develop a place-based summer learning program.
The Warwick Education Committee hopes to reopen Warwick Community School independent from the Pioneer Valley Regional School District, which closed the facility last spring for the fall of 2022. While dates for the summer program are not set yet, Selectboard member Brian Snell said town officials believe it will start one week after the Pioneer school district’s academic year ends this summer.
Warwick’s Trinitarian Congregational Church holding weekly Lenten Discussion Group
The Rev. Dan Dibble in the Trinitarian Congregational Church of Warwick. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 2/19/2021 3:05:35 PM
WARWICK The Trinitarian Congregational Church is hosting a weekly Lenten Discussion Group, with conversations that will “delve into our current sociopolitical religious confrontations with the hope of finding some way forward to healing our fractured society.”
The Rev. Dan Dibble has helped organize the discussions, which began on Feb. 17 and will run through March 31, each Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m. The conversations will incorporate video presentations from Valarie Kaur, an author, activist, lawyer and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. Through the Revolutionary Love Project, Kaur developed 10 “core practices,” and Dibble said participants will use these practices to begin each of the seven discussions.
North County Notebook: Feb. 16, 2021
Published: 2/15/2021 3:46:00 PM
Local resident among Endicott College Dean’s List
BERNARDSTON Engineering student Nathan Mousseau, son of Stacey and Gabriel Mousseau of Bernardston, has been named to Endicott College’s Dean’s List for the fall semester.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must obtain a minimum grade point average of 3.5, receive no letter grade below a “C,” have no withdrawal grades and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 credits for the semester. Skidmore College Dean’s List includes local student
Eli Koester, a junior at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was awarded Dean’s List honors for the fall semester. He is the son of Emily Koester of Northfield and David Koester of Warwick.