Aidan Pollard Jul 19, 2021
A selection committee comprising the Rochester Selectmen and School Committee members chose Jason Chisolm for the Rochester School Committee on July 19
ROCHESTER After a failure to elect a Rochester School Committee member in the May Town Election, a seven-person selection committee comprising the Selectmen and School Committee members appointed Jason Chisolm to the position on July 19.
Chisholm is a father of two Rochester Memorial School students and the Executive Director of Tri-Town Against Racism.
Chisholm will fill the seat left open after the May Town Election, which had no official candidates. There were a small number of write-in candidates for the position, but the results of the election ended in a tie between Michael Amato and Craig Parker with four votes each.
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Morgan Beard Jul 6, 2021
First year Superintendent Michael Nelson gave his first annual progress report on Tuesday, July 6 during the Old Rochester Regional School District Joint School Committee meeting.
The report, which assessed the superintendent’s performance according to goals set out last year, was well received by the respective school committees of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester.
“Every step along the way he created for us a beautiful portrait of what his leadership could be,” said Sharon Hartley of the Rochester School Committee. “A great leader listens and acts on what he or she heard and that is what we’ve seen here.”
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Minnesota author to discuss ‘The Seed Keeper’
Minnesota author Diane Wilson will discuss her new novel “The Seed Keeper” virtually from noon to 1 p.m. June 21, as a live event on the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library Facebook page.
Diane Wilson
While the Brainerd Public Library is now hosting in-person events, Brown Bag Lunch author visits have continued virtually.
A haunting novel spanning several generations, “The Seed Keeper” follows a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. In the novel, Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, when Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato, where the reserved, bookish teenage
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