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Nauset Supt. Tom Conrad will retire in June after close to three decades with the system. CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO ORLEANS — Tom Conrad’s long service to the Nauset Public Schools, first as principal of the high school and then as superintendent, will end with his retirement in June. Conrad shared the news at a joint meeting of the Nauset school committees Feb. 3. “I have been truly blessed to be in public education over 43 years, 29 of which in the Nauset system,” he said. “I am totally grateful to be able to work in a community that values education at the highest level.” Conrad pr...

ORLEANS — A joint meeting addressed a range of issues Wednesday about the $131.8 million high school project in the lead-up to a districtwide vote March 30. Two questions will go before voters: Will they support the Nauset Regional High School building project and the debt it will incur? And will they approve a debt override to pay for it? If the school project passes and the debt question fails, Orleans will have a $1 million budget deficit, Town Administrator John Kelly said during the meeting between the Nauset Regional School Committee, Select Board and Finance Committee. “Hopeful...

2010. Summer. The last year before Southington ushered in a new education complex and demolished 3/4ths of the old building. It was the last year Jake’s Ice Cream was open. Jake’s: a horse trailer renovated into a freezer, parked outside of Hurd’s Market in the center of town, which was nothing less than the center of the universe, where we all flocked to just for a chance to get our hands on a scoop of Superman or play-dough ice cream, anything with cosmic swirls of yellow, blue, and red. Jake owned Hurd’s, which had been around since 1865, long before any school had been built.