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The regional health agency serving Lee, Lenox and Stockbridge is avoiding consideration of mandates but is asking the health boards in three towns to support an official recommendation for indoor
LENOX â The School Committee has voted unanimously to adopt Gov, Charlie Bakerâs new guidance eliminating mask-wearing for all students when outdoors, even if social distancing cannot be maintained.
The relaxed guidelines that took effect Tuesday include recess, physical ed, youth sports and outdoor learning environments, interim schools Superintendent William Cameron said. For now, students and adults must continue to wear masks indoors.
Adults on school grounds must continue to wear masks outdoors if distancing cannot be maintained.
Until Bakerâs recommendations were released on Monday, health and safety rules required students to be masked at all times when on school property.
Where: Richmond Consolidated School, 1831 State Road (Route 41), gymnasium.
A large turnout is expected this year as voters consider whether to approve a major investment with a massive payoff, promising to create what this rural community lacks: The semblance of a centrally located âdowntownâ to replace a century-old, deteriorated and hazardous Town Hall and a cramped, rented library in a former garage.
Town Center project: Enthusiastically recommended by the Finance Committee, the proposed town offices, community center and library complex would be the largest building project since the renovation and expansion of the Richmond Consolidated School 20 years ago. Requiring financing toward an estimated cost of up to $6.8 million, a two-thirds supermajority is required for approval. A $1.9 million town hall/library proposal came up eight votes short in 2002, and a revised plan failed in 2005 by a handful of votes. Selectman Roger Manzolini, a strong advocate of the project,
STOCKBRIDGE â As it begins to look toward a gradual reopening of in-person school and grapples with coronavirus pandemic complications, the Berkshire Hills Regional School District on Thursday quickly approved its fiscal 2022 budget.
At a virtual public hearing, the School Committee voted unanimously for net operating costs of $28.3 million, and a capital budget of $1.96 million.
Less state and other aid, the total net assessment to Great Barrington, West Stockbridge and Stockbridge, is $24.7 million, a 3.2 percent increase over this year.
Great Barrington pays 75 percent of those costs, since it sends the majority of students to district schools.
Because of a complex state formula, and the number of students from each town, Great Barrington will see a nearly 5 percent hike over fiscal 2021, an $18.4 million assessment; Stockbridgeâs increase will be over 7 percent, to $3.2 million; and West Stockbridge will see a 3 percent decrease, also at $3.2 million.