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One of my favorite things about working in our public school system is that we get two New Years: one in August and another in January. As I mentioned in my August column, “The new...

AMHERST — A petition for mediation is being filed by the Amherst Regional School Committee after what it contends is a stalemate has developed in contract negotiations with the Amherst Pelham Educators Association.The announcement was made by Ben...

MONTICELLO – The Monticello School District and the Monticello Education Association have agreed on a new four-year deal, giving educators a raise of nearly 5% over the course of the

AMHERST — Conventional bargaining for a new contract, considered to be a more adversarial approach, is resuming between the Amherst Pelham Education Association (APEA) and the Amherst Regional School Committee as a collaborative, joint problem-solving...

My grandmother used to say, “Don’t paint the baby’s room before the baby is born,” because she thought it would bring the evil eye to count our blessings before they happened. With election day just…