Educational trail plan approved for Warwick Community School campus
A proposed trail map for the 25-acre Warwick Community School campus. Contributed Image
Published: 5/6/2021 3:51:16 PM
WARWICK As part of the town’s efforts to reopen the former Warwick Community School as an independent elementary school, the Selectboard has given its seal of approval to an educational trail plan for the 25-acre grounds.
The Warwick Education Committee and Town Lands Trails Study Group developed the plan, which involves creating trails throughout the school property that will be marked with educational signs, as well as viewing platforms and benches.
Members of the Town Lands Trails Study Group said marked trails will bring walkers to unique places. The 25-acre grounds contain a cranberry bog, two registered vernal pools and a lily pond.
Warwick secures funding for Antioch University partnership to create summer program
The former Warwick Community School campus and adjacent Mount Grace State Park will be the site of a Summer Recreation and Arts Program being created through a partnership between the town and Antioch University of Keene, N.H. Staff File Photo/Dan Little
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WARWICK The Arts Council, Recreation Committee and other town officials have provided the necessary funding to partner with Antioch University of Keene, N.H., to create learning activities for a Summer Recreation and Arts Program geared toward children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Warwick secures funding for Antioch University partnership to create summer program
The former Warwick Community School campus and adjacent Mount Grace State Park will be the site of a Summer Recreation and Arts Program being created through a partnership between the town and Antioch University of Keene, N.H. Staff File Photo/Dan Little
Modified: 4/16/2021 2:25:51 PM
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WARWICK The Arts Council, Recreation Committee and other town officials have provided the necessary funding to partner with Antioch University of Keene, N.H., to create learning activities for a Summer Recreation and Arts Program geared toward children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Warwick appoints six members to Pro Tempore School Governance Committee
The entrance to the former Warwick Community School, which town officials hope to reopen as an independent elementary school. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
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WARWICK Continuing discussions from two weeks ago, the Selectboard voted to create a Pro Tempore School Governance Committee that will develop plans for an independent elementary school, and appointed six new members.
The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee voted in January 2020 to cease use of the Warwick Community School building and its 25-acre property, which is owned by Warwick, as a cost-saving measure, a decision that Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Commissioner Jeffrey Riley later approved. Since then, members of the Warwick Education Committee have been holding regular meetings in hopes of reopening the Warwick Community School as an independent elementary school.
Pandemic relief funding estimated to range from $33K for Monroe to $5M for Greenfield
Published: 4/8/2021 3:50:11 PM
WARWICK Estimates for municipal aid allotments for Massachusetts cities and towns through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for pandemic relief that President Joe Biden approved last month see Warwick receiving a potential $225,000, while a more densely populated city like Greenfield will receive over $5 million.
Speaking in a recent Selectboard meeting, Warwick Town Coordinator David Young said each town’s share of the more than $2 billion in direct aid provided to Massachusetts under the American Rescue Plan was estimated using an old Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant formula. This formula resulted in cities and towns with populations over 50,000 being eligible for more money than towns that do not exceed this population threshold.