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Around Amherst: Reader to Reader sending 7,000 kids’ books to Springfield schools By SCOTT MERZBACH AMHERST — A global literacy organization based in Amherst is donating more than 7,000 new children’s books to Springfield’s public schools. The books, from Reader to Reader and with a value of over $70,000, were provided by American Girl Publishing. “We are very excited to be able to make a donation of this magnitude,” Reader to Reader founder David Mazor said in a statement. “With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting children in school time, it is all the more important to get boo...

Min It’s been almost a year since Massachusetts public schools closed their doors to prevent community spread of COVID-19. Recently, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley announced plans to “take remote and hybrid learning models off the table” by April. It’s about time. For months, we have known that the risks of harm to students from school closures far outweigh the risks from COVID-19. It was clear last summer not only that students are at low risk from COVID-19, but that transmission from students to staff is rare, particularly when ris...

oxygen Insider Exclusive! Sign Up for Free to View Authorities in Colorado have used advanced technology to create a likeness of an unidentified man who was murdered more than 15 years ago, and whose killer has never been found. The man in question was found dead in Saguache County on Oct. 19, 2002, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a release issued last week. Authorities with the CBI and the Saguache County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body in an area near Colorado State Highway 114; the man was wrapped in a blanket or quilt of some kind, and appeared to be between the ages of...

Springfield Looks to Identify and Provide Skills Students Need to Thrive   But maybe an adjective is in order to get the complete picture, pun intended. Indeed, what the Springfield Public Schools are focused on now is creating a portrait of a successful high-school graduate, through an initiative designed to gain feedback from a host of constituencies regarding the skills — as in all the skills — that young people will need to not only earn a high-school diploma, but thrive in an ever-changing, technology-driven economy. And this portrait will become a valuable blueprint of sorts as sc...

3:17         A tentative plan has been developed for students in the largest public school district in western Massachusetts to return to the classroom for the first time since last March.           Under a plan being considered by the Springfield School Committee, a majority of the district’s 26,000 students would return to their school buildings starting on April 12th.   But smaller groups including special education and vocational-technical students might return in March.        "Those openings would be subject to working with our health commissioner to make sure...