Westfield Superintendent of Schools announces retirement
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
Westfield Superintendent of Schools Dr. Margaret Dolan has announced that she will retire, effective July 1.Dave Rossi
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Westfield Superintendent of Schools Dr. Margaret Dolan has announced that she will retire, effective July 1. Dolan made the announcement at the Jan. 19 Board of Education virtual meeting.
“It has been a great honor to serve the Westfield Public Schools as a principal, assistant superintendent, and the district’s first female superintendent,” Dolan wrote in a letter of notification to board members. “I would like to thank the thirty board of education members with whom I have and am now working.”
Sword stolen from statue of Revolutionary War hero in Westfield 40 years ago returned
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
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As college pranks go, it proved to be a weighty one, the fallout from which a now aging military veteran carried around with him for almost 40 years. Until now.
All that matters, explains Cindy P. Gaylord, is that a piece of Westfield’s history is back in the city’s possession and will be preserved for generations to come.
On Monday of this week, Gaylord, chair of the municipal Historical Commission, sat in the driveway at her home, masked and socially distanced from her visitor, to hear face-to-face from the man who brought Gen. William Shepard’s sword back to Westfield. More specifically, it is the century-old bronze, sculpted version of the famed general’s sword, which went missing four decades ago from a monument in downtown Westfield.
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Dec. 11, 2020
Westfield High School 11th and 12th graders in Jennifer Sirman s environmental science class made a recent virtual field trip to a sea turtle hospital in Florida as part of a classroom ecology unit. Students were given a virtual tour, meeting Galapagos, Justice Ginsberg, and other rehabilitating sea turtles named, by hospital staff, after places and people in history.
Subscribe The average lifespan of a sea turtle is 80-100 years old, said Lindsay French, STEM Education Coordinator at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach. We have 100 sea turtles on average here each year.
French said hospital staff treat loggerhead, green, and leatherback sea turtles for a variety of injuries caused by shark bites, fishing lines, boat propellers, and other hazards. The center also rescues and releases sea turtle hatchlings into the ocean, who may have become disoriented by nearby lighting, heading toward the lights rather than the sea.
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A student example of “My Family’s Immigrant Story,” a cross-curricular project assigned to all fifth graders at McKinley. (McKinley School)
McKinley 5th grader Megan D. and others created “flipbooks” to document a family immigrant story, as part of a cross-curricular assignment. (McKinley School)
Press release from Westfield Public Schools:
Dec. 11, 2020
Fifth graders at McKinley Elementary School in Westfield recently explored their family s past during a cross-curricular assignment that combined reading, writing, research, geography, technology, speech, history, graphic design, and interviewing skills.
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Students interviewed a person in their family who knew someone or was someone who emigrated from a different country to the United States. Fifth graders asked the interviewee such questions as Why did you come to America?, What was your homeland like?, and What did you do for work and housing when you arrived here?