New Bedford First Grade Teacher Retires After 31 Years
New Bedford First Grade Teacher Retires After 31 Years What can you do for a dedicated teacher that is retiring after 31 years of educating our little ones? Normally, you'd throw the teacher a retirement party. There would be speeches and toasts offered in her honor from the principal and her colleagues. But unfortunately, that can't happen during the COVID-19 pandemic. There's no room for retirement parties – not yet, at least. If all goes as planned, teachers are still a few weeks away from receiving their first vaccine. So the staff at the John B. DeValles School in New Bedford did the o...