LENOX â The search for a new town schools superintendent is down to two finalists, both of whom are on deck for public interviews by the School Committee on Tuesday.
Chosen from an initial pool of 15 applicants to succeed interim Superintendent William Cameron, including three from Berkshire County and seven from elsewhere in Massachusetts, the finalists are:
⢠Beth Choquette, a Cheshire resident and principal of the Bridge Street School in Northampton since 2012. Itâs one of the Hampshire County cityâs three public elementary schools, with a student enrollment of 291.
Previously, she was principal of Stamford Elementary School in Vermont for six years. Concurrently, Choquette was co-founder, co-director, board president and instructor of the Windsor School of Music in North Adams from 2008-09. She taught music at the former Plunkett Elementary School in Adams from 2000-06 (now Hoosac Valley Elementary School).
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CHELMSFORD In 2011, Thomas Gallagher hoisted a tray of glasses while preparing for a catering job when a tremendous pain flared in his lower back. I felt like it was on fire, said Gallagher, who put down the tray, and collapsed on the floor. His T12 vertebra the 12 thoracic vertebra in the spine had ruptured.
The rupture led to paralysis in his lower body. Since Dec. 11, 2011, he has used a wheelchair to get around.
But Gallagher, 52, a math teacher at McCarthy Middle School, persevered, including in his leadership in school athletics.
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BENNINGTON â Joining with museums across the country, Bennington Museum and Bennington Collegeâs Usdan Gallery are taking part in RESIST COVID | TAKE 6!, a national public awareness campaign by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems meant to make the general public aware of staggering death toll of COVID-19 and its negative impact, particularly on people of color.
The campaign uses billboards, alternative messaging, public art projects, and other creative means to underscore the importance of social distancing (TAKE 6! refers to the recommended 6 feet of separation), encourage public discussion, dispel the myths and dangers of false cures associated with the virus, and thank front-line and essential workers.
State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier first began working with students to advance campus sexual assault legislation after touring colleges with her daughter, then a high school junior, in 2013.
Farley-Bouvier, D-Pittsfield, recalled learning at the time that an estimated one in five women experience sexual assault while in college, most of them in their first two years.
The legislation, which seeks to curb such violence on Massachusettsâ college campuses, was first advocated for and written by college students and survivors in 2014. On Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker signed it into law.
âMy daughter has long since graduated from high school and graduated from college ⦠but it is my hope that other peopleâs daughters can benefit from this bill,â Farley-Bouvier said, praising studentsâ advocacy.
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