SHANE BROWN
What is it that makes me write a column every week? Is it the satisfaction of speaking my mind to a public forum? The hope that I might make someone s day a little brighter? Seeing my incredibly sexy face in the paper every week?
Or is simply the knowledge that for once every year, I live out my childhood fantasy of being an Important Music Critic and devote an end-of-year column to my picks for the best albums of the year? The one thing I predicted about the pandemic is that a whole lot of creatives would get a whole lot of creativity, and they certainly didn t let me down. 2020 had some amazing records â here s the soundtracks that got me through many lonely lockdown days.
Echo Pilot
May 5
The Greencastle-Antrim School Board officially put furloughs, teacher and program cuts and the elimination of extracurricular activities on the table during a virtual meeting. Pre-COVID-19, it wasn t good; post-COVID-19, it s disastrous, Caroline Royer, chief financial officer, said in describing the district s fiscal position. Projected revenues for 2020-21 are $39,999,478 and projected expenses are $42,448,579 for a deficit of $2,449,101.
Greencastle-Antrim High School students some dressed up, some not had a different prom experience Saturday night, May 2, with Mask-erade Porch Prom, an event organized by the junior class prom committee.
May 7
“It’s going to devastate the district if they move forward.” That was the reaction of Greencastle-Antrim Education Association President Brandon Solomon after last week’s resolution by the school board to consider cuts, including teacher positions, to handle economic hits from the COVID-19 pandemic.