Farmington Board of Education eliminates Jewish holidays, re

The Farmington Board of Education unanimously voted Monday to remove two Jewish holidays from its 2023-2024 calendar and rejected calls from town’s the South Asian population to provide a day off for the festival of Diwali — a discussion that signals the ever-changing cultural makeup of the community.

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