2021 was a year of transition for Pittsfield. The city not only elected a new slate of City Councilors, but it, along with the rest of the commonwealth, shifted out of the state of emergency.
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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.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. The Pittsfield School Committee interviewed four finalists on Monday and Tuesday evenings in the search for the district s new superintendent. Each of the applicants has a history of more than 24 years in education and evinced a desire to embrace the city s diverse range of youth and young adults. The committee will deliberate on the appointment of the next superintendent at its regular meeting Wednesday, April 14. Former Superintendent Jason McCandless left last August for the Mount Greylock Regional School District, and former Deputy Superintendent Joseph Curtis was selected as interim superintendent. A 23-member Superintendent Search Committee was formed in November 2020 and had its first meeting in December with the hope to have a new superintendent by July 1, 2021.