Some Cape Cod districts resume summer school programs barnstablepatriot.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barnstablepatriot.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cape Cod Times
After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer school programs will reappear in some Cape school districts.
The need is great, according to school officials.
Testing shows that students have fallen behind in math and English language arts, Monomoy Regional School Superintendent Scott Carpenter said.
“It’s a lag nationwide,” he said.
Carpenter said Monomoy students probably have more of a leg up students in grades K-7 have been attending class in person full time this school year but last year’s emergency switch to remote learning in March for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year has taken its toll.
How remote working brought a real estate boom to the Cape and Berkshires bostonglobe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bostonglobe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New neighbors, stand out, Food4Vets, Superpowers Stroll, Town Notes
The Barnstable Patriot
Food4Vets pickup Saturday at BHS
Barnstable High School parking lot will serve as the new distribution site for Food4Vets family food pickup on Saturdays going forward.
Having met with Town Manager Mark Ells and BPS Supt. Meg Mayo-Brown, Rep. Kipp Diggs (D-Hyannis) made the announcement by phone Monday, saying volunteers are committed to extending availability of critical emergency food supplies.
The Massachusetts Military Support Foundation partnered with 4Cs West Barnstable campus to launch the initiative last fall. The drive-thru pickup then moved to the Hyannis Transportation Center, which is about to get really busy as the Cape Cod RTA ramps up summer service, Diggs said.
Dennis Brandao, 77, of Osterville, Mass., died on Jan. 26, 2021, after becoming ill with COVID-19. He’s among the more than 556,000 Americans who have succumbed to the disease since the first known fatality in the U.S. in early 2020.
Brandao’s daughter, Denise Harris, told Yahoo News that her father was a loving husband, father and grandfather. “He had a heart of gold, and a smile that lit up worlds,” Harris said.