Morgan Beard Jul 6, 2021
First year Superintendent Michael Nelson gave his first annual progress report on Tuesday, July 6 during the Old Rochester Regional School District Joint School Committee meeting.
The report, which assessed the superintendent’s performance according to goals set out last year, was well received by the respective school committees of Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester.
“Every step along the way he created for us a beautiful portrait of what his leadership could be,” said Sharon Hartley of the Rochester School Committee. “A great leader listens and acts on what he or she heard and that is what we’ve seen here.”
Photo Courtesy: Jim Muse
MATTAPOISETT From raising his two sons in town to his nine years on the School Committee, Jim Muse has been involved with the Old Rochester Regional School District in some form for 30 years.
An incumbent and chairman, he’s running for another three-year term on the Mattapoisett School Committee.
Muse said he wants to be a “resource to the town.”
“And I mean the entire town,” he added.
Muse believes the schools impact the community at large
“The tentacles of the schools go far beyond just the schools,” he said.
Muse, also a member of the ORR School Committee, has been in public service for decades. He serves on the Board of Directors for YMCA Southcoast, and he was a trustee at the Southern New England School of Law, before it became part of UMass Dartmouth.
Kate Robinson Apr 5, 2021
MATTAPOISETT Student leaders at UMass Dartmouth have published a letter this week calling for Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Dr. Shannon Finning who is also a member of the Old Rochester Regional and Mattapoisett School Committees to resign for failing to address the community’s concerns with systemic racism at the school.
In a letter sent to local media contacts and published in student newspaper The Torch, six student leaders including Student Government Association President Liz Anusauskas and Class of 2021 President Pearl McCarthy asked university officials for Dr. Finning’s immediate resignation, calling her “unfit to serve” in her current role.