SOUTH DEERFIELD The Frontier Regional School Class of 2021 was urged to embrace the changes that come after graduation because nothing could be more different than the pandemic-afflicted year they just experienced.During a sunny Friday evening on.
SOUTH DEERFIELD Another site to buy fresh strawberries, asparagus and other produce has opened on Routes 5 and 10.Manheim Farm, after operating in Whately for about 35 years, opened its first farm stand on May 1.“It was an idea,” Hugh Manheim, the.
Sunderland, Deerfield groups holding march, vigil for George Floyd
Community members line Main Street in Deerfield last summer in a show of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Starting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday there will be a march and vigil in Sunderland to honor the memory of George Floyd and other people of color who have been killed by police. Staff File Photo/MARY BYRNE
Staff Report
Published: 5/24/2021 3:11:03 PM
SUNDERLAND May 25 marks one year since George Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, and the communities of South Deerfield and Sunderland plan to observe the occasion with a march and vigil.
With track project under budget, Frontier School Committee plans use of extra money
The cost to construct a new track at Frontier Regional School, pictured, came in at a lower bid than expected. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
By MARY BYRNE
SOUTH DEERFIELD With the cost of a track construction project coming in at a lower bid than expected, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved a series of proposals on Tuesday concerning how to spend the excess money budgeted for the work, including the purchase of new track equipment and a nine- or 14-passenger van.
“Earlier this year, we talked about using $200,000 of (excess and deficiency funds) to offset the cost of the track,” Superintendent Darius Modestow explained. “The track numbers were projected to be coming in at possibly up to $800,000 and change, but the track came in at $638,750. We now have a problem kind of a good problem which is we put money aside to use E and D.”
SOUTH DEERFIELD As attendants directed vehicles around orange cones laid out in the parking lot Friday afternoon, the signs at 1 Community Place marked a milestone occasion for the area’s beer community: Tree House Brewing is officially open for.