Opinion: Brewer, Boxler deserve Westport s support
R. Michael Sullivan
R. Michael Sullivan lives in Westport and is a former Westport Select Board member and chairman.
I hope you will join me in supporting our two incumbent Select Board members at the April 13 Town Election.
Dick Brewer and Ann Boxler have well represented Westporters over the past three years but deserve particular praise for guiding the town through this last year made very difficult by the pandemic. They and the rest of the current board have had to make tough choices to accommodate restrictions and budgetary issues brought on by COVID-19, a job I do not envy.
Fall River area schools say pandemic has changed education forever
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FALL RIVER Five Fall River area school districts say they’re not interested, at least for the time being, in a new state pooled testing program that will bundle, or pool, weekly nose swabs of students and teachers being tested for COVID-19.
The voluntary program will provide weekly batch testing to groups of asymptomatic students and teachers as a means of encouraging more parents and guardians to send their kids back to the schoolhouse as opposed to remote learning.
Students who have been learning exclusively from home on a remote basis are also eligible to participate.
Gov. Charlie Baker announced the pooled testing strategy on Jan. 8. He described it as a collaborative effort between the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Public Health.
Westport considering town sites for central business office
Jeffrey D. Wagner
WESTPORT The town will be getting a new junior/senior high school building on Old County Road later this year, but no decision has been made yet for where the business office will be located.
Right now, the main candidates include keeping the central business office in a portion of the current high school on Main Road or moving the offices to the modular building adjacent to the Macomber Primary School. That building is used for grade 2 classrooms and other Macomber programs. Grade 2 will move back to the Westport Elementary School later this fall when the junior/senior high school opens up. WES will then return to a grades 1 through 4 building.