West Stockbridge, Massachusetts held its annual town meeting Monday night.
Under light rain, most of the 35-article town meeting warrant passed without much discussion at the socially distanced gathering in the town hall parking lot. Using a low wattage FM broadcast, town leadership addressed attendees from the community of around 1,200 through their car radios. But article 12, which would have expanded the town’s authority around licensing the buying and selling of new and used cars, attracted some static.
“Before the amendment, the license, the select board had the right to go in and take the license off the wall without a hearing or anything, said William Kie . Now that s changed, but two weeks is not sufficient time to correct anything that might be perceived as a violation. The whole law, I feel, is a violation of my rights as a taxpayer in the town and violates my constitutional rights.”
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Massachusetts students don’t have to take MCAS; and some are arguing they shouldn’t
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Clockwise from the top left, Nora Dyer-Murphy, Abigail Rothstein, Raghav Surya and Ben Schrenzel, members of the Belchertown High School student union for equity, are campaigning to let students know about their right to opt out of the MCAS test.
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With Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test dates approaching, a group of students in Belchertown is making it their mission to let fellow students know they can opt-out of the test.
In Massachusetts, not all families are aware that they can opt their child out for the yearly assessment. These Belchertown High School students are trying to spread the word, aligning themselves with campaigns from the Massachusetts Teachers Association and other groups that feel the test should not be required this year as students still grapple with COVID-19 pandemic-related stress and continue to adjust t