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Should a new district charge all eight towns the same rate? For taxpayers, this could make or break a Monument Mountain and Mount Everett regional high schools merger.
None of the final three is from Berkshire County, though one candidate is from the nearby Gateway Regional School District in Huntington. Interviews are being scheduled for next week.
According to a presentation by Project Manager Jake Eberwein on the potential merger timeline at the Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 4, the merger process would take at least two fiscal years; the earliest the newly merged school district could operate is July 2025.
Lenox Schools Superintendent Jake Eberwein has appointed a former North County principal and current teacher in Lee to the temporary post through June 30.
The Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board briefly reviewed a draft regional agreement, which covers various aspects of what a potential merger of Berkshire Hills and Southern Berkshire Regional School Districts would look like, at its regular meeting one Wednesday, Sept. 28.