Warwick to work with Antioch University to develop summer program, academic curriculum
Warwick Community School.
Published: 2/19/2021 3:07:46 PM
WARWICK Following an affirmative vote from the Selectboard this week, Warwick will work with faculty and interns at Antioch University in Keene, N.H., to design a curriculum in advance of reopening the town’s elementary school and to develop a place-based summer learning program.
The Warwick Education Committee hopes to reopen Warwick Community School independent from the Pioneer Valley Regional School District, which closed the facility last spring for the fall of 2022. While dates for the summer program are not set yet, Selectboard member Brian Snell said town officials believe it will start one week after the Pioneer school district’s academic year ends this summer.
Pioneer’s proposed FY22 budget fails in tied School Committee votes
Pioneer Valley Regional School. Staff File Photo/Zack DeLuca
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NORTHFIELD A motion to pass the proposed fiscal year 2022 budget for the Pioneer Valley Regional School District hit a road block last week, failing twice in consecutive 6-6 votes from the School Committee.
The four-hour meeting on Thursday saw over two hours of discussion on the budget and a 7-5 December vote to move sixth-graders to Pioneer Valley Regional School for the coming fall. During an earlier public hearing on the proposed $14,851,290 budget, School Committee member David Young of Warwick had urged fellow members not to vote in favor of the budget which requires a two-thirds majority to be approved in an effort to delay the sixth-grade move.
School closings and delays for Wednesday, Jan. 27
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
The following schools have announced closures, delays or remote learning days for Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.
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Auburn Public Schools - Remote learning day Wednesday
Chicopee Public Schools - Remote learning day Wednesday
Emma L. Miller Memorial School - Closed Wednesday
Four Rivers Charter School - Remote learning day Wednesday
Frontier Regional Schools - Remote learning day Wednesday
North County Notebook: Jan. 9, 2021
Published: 1/10/2021 3:03:10 PM
Modified: 1/10/2021 3:02:51 PM
Disney trivia night planned for Saturday
NORTHFIELD Dickinson Memorial Library will hold Disney Family Trivia on Saturday, Jan. 16, from 3 to 4 p.m.
All ages are welcome, and teams can be made up of individuals or include the whole family. Questions are geared toward ages 6 and up. To register for this online program, email the library at dmemlib@gmail.com at least two days before the event.
Talk to discuss local walks
NORTHFIELD Dickinson Memorial Library, in coordination with other local libraries, will hold “Finding Easy Local Walks” on Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
One of the safest places to work
Published: 12/11/2020 3:12:07 PM
Modified: 12/11/2020 3:11:55 PM
Northfield had zero Covid cases, Warwick zero, Bernardston “less than 5.” Yet Pioneer Valley Regional School District shut down schools. Why? The teachers’ union.
The CDC has been explicit that schools are not significant sources of COVID spread and the Pioneer Valley Regional School District administration made heroic measures to keep the schools safe for in-school teaching. Teachers work in one of the safest places anyone works in.
What if the unions representing health care workers closed down hospitals to protect their members? Instead they risk their health, sanity, and lives to care for others, including teachers.