Lighthouse Guild is awarding 20 college scholarships of $8,000 each to students who are visually impaired and will be entering college and graduate school in the Fall.
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the school year, forcing students to adapt to online learning models, some Massachusetts school districts still managed to see high attendance rates. In fact, one district came just a touch shy of a 100% attendance rate. At the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, a small public school that serves high school juniors and seniors, attendance so far .
Hilltown Digest: Year after year it’s picnic table 63
A picture from the 2021 Memorial Day weekend picnic that was originally started by Helen Kagan, seated in the middle. Due to inclement weather, the picnic was held at the Mallory home rather than table 63 at Look Park. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published: 6/3/2021 4:27:30 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic canceled many traditions last year, from big Thanksgiving get-togethers to the Cummington Fair. But one decades-long tradition that was called off for the first time last year resumed last Sunday: the Memorial Day weekend family picnic first started by Helen Kagan in the late 1960s.
“I never knew that it would be a tradition,” said Kagan, now 92. “But I’m so happy that it is.”
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