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After almost a year of remote learning, some Chicopee students start in-person classes Monday Updated Feb 20, 2021; CHICOPEE — City students, many of whom have not been in a school in nearly a year, will return to some in-person learning Monday under a system that will mix classes at schools with remote lessons. The School Committee voted last week to change to a hybrid model after the idea was recommended by a task force of educators, parents and students and then sent to a separate impleme...

Technical high schools adapt to COVID’s immense challenge Updated Feb 16, 2021; Posted Feb 16, 2021 1/21/2921 -Westfield- Students at work in Westfield Technical Academys auto repair shop. (Don Treeger / The Republican) Facebook Share The vocational director at Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy says the last 11 months have been difficult, but could have been worse. “Some districts were caught (unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic). They planned for hybrid last summer and the...

Jeanette DeForge: Chicopee Council considers moving meetings due to frustrating technology problems [The Republican, Springfield, Mass.] Jan. 19—CHICOPEE — Continual problems with the broadcasting of the City Council meetings have grown so bad that council president Shane D. Brooks sometimes relies on texts from his mother to known when the audio shuts off to the viewing public. Then in the last meeting — which drew a lot of attention and a protest over a councilor’s Facebook comments �...

A state emergency order allows public meetings to be held remotely.

The city purchased 20,000 tests with money provided from the CARES Act.