Stafford moves ahead with plans for 6th high school
Stafford County should have its sixth high school open by Spring 2025.
At the most recent meeting, the Stafford School Board was given a presentation concerning the breakdown of plans to bring High School #6 to fruition. The Stafford County Board approved the school in its Capital Improvements Program for the fiscal year 2021-2030.
A presentation made by Thomas Nichols, Chief Academic Officer for High School and Student Safety, outlined the timeline for High School #6.
The school division hopes to have a design team selected by spring. Nichols said that in addition to teachers that the school’s designed environment is important to prepare students to become successful, even though Nichols admitted that the school board has no idea what the jobs of the future may be.
Stafford mulls having businesses, startups compete for coronavirus aid
Supervisor Tinesha Allen wants to pour more funds into the Economic Development Authority to help new businesses that want to start up in Stafford County.
When the Stafford County Board of Supervisors met on. Tuesday, January 19, Allen pushed the county’s EDA to create a new small business loan program. Allen says that such a program could help spur new businesses in the area and economic recovery.
Many of the surrounding localities, including Stafford, already have loan programs to help support businesses. Still, demand for them has decreased due to the coronavirus pandemic. In response, the county has already revised the EDA loan programs’ rules to make them more flexible.
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Stafford purchases restaurant gift cards to help those affected by the pandemic Meg Bohmke, who represents the Falmouth District on the Stafford Board of Supervisors, announces a new program to help county residents and small business owners.
Stafford County announced a new program that seeks to help residents and restaurants in the county that have been negatively affected by coronavirus pandemic.
Falmouth District Supervisor Meg Bohmke revealed the launch of the Supporting Restaurants and Families in Need Initiative, a program that is designed to bolster the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP as well as struggling restaurants in the Stafford County.
A court clinician testified in a status update at Falmouth District Court Wednesday, December 23, that murder defendant Andrew M. Baily, 26, should be further evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital.
On Monday, Mr. Baily pleaded not guilty to murdering his mother in her Mashpee home on Friday last week.
Judge Edward F.X. Lynch ruled that Mr. Baily would be held without bail pending a mental heath evaluation during the arraignment in Falmouth on Monday.
Mr. Baily is charged with domestic assault and battery, strangulation or suffocation with serious bodily injury, assault and battery on a 60-plus-year-old person with serious injury, and murder in connection with the death of his mother, Cheryl R. Crowell, 60, of Mashpee.