SOMERSET A Somerset native and budding actor will get a brush with stardom later this week as he introduces “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz at a film festival in Georgia.
“I’m a huge fan of her’s,” said Jack Caron. “So I was so beyond excited, especially having that one-on-one interaction with her just means the world.”
Caron graduated in 2018 from Somerset Berkley Regional High School, where he participated in the school’s show choir and was voted “most likely to be famous” by his classmates.
It was there that he first established a love of acting, he said.
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.
FALL RIVER As the nation and world witnessed Joe Biden realize his decades-long dream of becoming president of the United States and the swearing-in of Kamala Harris, the country’s first female vice president, students at area high schools watched along, taking in the historic moment.
At Joseph Case High School in Swansea, students were welcome to watch the Inauguration Day events during their lunch breaks in the auditorium where they were viewing it live throughout the day. Principal Brian McCann said anytime the school has a chance to bring the community together to witness history during the school day, whether it s a Presidential inauguration, a World Series or Super Bowl parade they find a way to make it happen.
FALL RIVER A majority of Fall River and Somerset students won’t be heading back into their classrooms after the holiday school break.
While those two school districts have decided to stay remote, the Westport School Committee recently nixed a proposal to do the same. Swansea Superintendent of Schools John Robidoux said Swansea students will remain in hybrid mode following the winter break.
“I do not feel that going fully remote pre-emptively makes sense at this juncture. I remain committed to ensuring that we have as many students as possible partaking in in-person learning, as long as we can continue to adhere to the health and safety guidelines that we have in place,” said Robidoux, adding he s hopeful that parents, students and staff will remain vigilant during the break to ward off a further spike in cases.