LENOX â The School Committee has voted unanimously to adopt Gov, Charlie Bakerâs new guidance eliminating mask-wearing for all students when outdoors, even if social distancing cannot be maintained.
The relaxed guidelines that took effect Tuesday include recess, physical ed, youth sports and outdoor learning environments, interim schools Superintendent William Cameron said. For now, students and adults must continue to wear masks indoors.
Adults on school grounds must continue to wear masks outdoors if distancing cannot be maintained.
Until Bakerâs recommendations were released on Monday, health and safety rules required students to be masked at all times when on school property.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The School Committee and City Council will meet Wednesday evening to fill a vacancy on the School Committee left by the abrupt departure of Dennis Powell. Five.
Deputy Superintendent Joseph Curtis, who has been leading the 5,000-student district since last fall, was chosen out four finalists on Wednesday with a majority vote of 4-3. This prompted committee member Dennis Powell to publicly resign from the body, citing a lack of voice among his colleagues and a flawed process. It s unfortunate, and I really felt that at the beginning of this whole process, I could have wrote this ending, that s the way this whole process was run, Powell said to the committee on Wednesday before signing off the Zoom meeting. On Thursday, Ward 5 Councilor Patrick Kavey addressed those who voted for Curtis: Mayor Linda Tyer, Daniel Elias, William Cameron, and Chairwoman Katherine Yon, in a Facebook post stating that they had failed the district with their selection.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Downtown Pittsfield will now be zoned as a creative district after the City Council s Tuesday vote. The council ordained a zoning amendment for a Downtown Creative District in a 9-1 vote with Ward 1 Councilor Helen Moon opposed and Ward 6 Councilor Dina Guiel Lampiasi absent. North Street and South Street will be the primary areas affected by this change. The new zoning district will replace the Downtown Arts Overlay District adopted in 2004 and the more traditional historic zoning districts that are within the downtown area. This downtown arts overlay district was adopted at a time when we were trying to understand the roadblocks for development, redevelopment, especially some of the successful mixed-use development we ve seen downtown, and it was it was a good balance of trying to allow a lot more flexibility with use and reuse of space but also providing some protections, especially to guard against your more suburban-style developments that didn t nece
Curtis was selected from four candidates on a 4-3 vote with Mayor Linda Tyer, Daniel Elias, William Cameron and Chairwoman Katherine Yon voting in his favor. Member Dennis Powell, the only supporter of Portia Bonner, a Connecticut administrator, publicly resigned from the committee in protest after the vote. It s unfortunate, and I really felt that at the beginning of this whole process, I could have wrote this ending, that s the way this whole process was run, Powell said before signing out of the Zoom meeting. So really, unfortunately, I just have to take the position and I m just going to resign from this body, input my energy for the community somewhere where I think I will have a voice.