Three Rivers
Three Rivers, MA · Education
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Glasheen highlights district attendance and entry plan timeline
HOLYOKE — Holyoke Public Schools Superintendent Jackie Glasheen, who has officially been in her new role for a little over three months, shared the district’s attendance rates and her schedule for creating her entry plan during the Oct. 13 School Committee meeting. Glasheen first shared the district’s current...
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AHS community wing nears ‘substantial completion’
AGAWAM — The community wing of the new high school is on schedule to reach “substantial completion” in December according to Mayor Christopher Johnson in his recent report to the School Committee on the progress of the project. “It’s amazing how much work happens even in a...
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LitNet Learning Center Announces Ribbon Cutting, Grand Opening on Oct. 29
PITTSFIELD — The Literacy Network, founded and based in Lee since 1991, opened the LitNet Learning Center at 137 North St. in Pittsfield in early September. The Literacy Network will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening event at the space in Crawford Square on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. The Pittsfield and Greater Berkshire community are invited to stop in to see the new space, meet the team, and learn more about what the Literacy Network (LitNet) does.
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Chicopee City Council approves funding for Anna Barry School project
CHICOPEE — The Anna E. Barry Elementary School project can officially move forward after the City Council voted 12-1 to approve the necessary bond funding at its Oct. 14 meeting. The proposed project will replace the existing Anna E. Barry Elementary School with a new two-story building serving 340...
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Free Line Cook Training Classes at HCC Begin Nov. 2
HOLYOKE — Holyoke Community College (HCC) will run a free, six-week line cook training program at the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute, 164 Race St., Holyoke, beginning Monday, Nov. 2. Classes continue through Friday, Dec. 11. They meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Tuesdays,...
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Pedestrian-only zones discussed at SGA meeting
The University of Massachusetts Student Government Association (SGA) met in the Cape Cod Lounge at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 for its third Senate meeting of the semester. During the Committee of the Whole, the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Emergency Management, Jeffery Hescock, and Halia Taylor, who serves as marketing ambassador for EHS, presented an update on the pedestrian-only zone pilot program, where riding or driving wheeled vehicles is prohibited.
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Mount Greylock School Committee Looks at Policy on Food in Classroom
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee this month discussed a new policy addressing outside food and beverages in the classroom. But members of the panel reflected the tricky line that schools must walk between allowing fun and enriching events on school time while protecting potentially vulnerable children in the district's care.
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Chicopee Council Backs $106M Barry School Move Despite Traffic Fears
Chicopee's City Council voted 12-1 Tuesday to approve bonding for a new Anna E. Barry Elementary School, clearing the final local hurdle for a $106.7 million project that will relocate the 1963-era school to a new site on Macek Street. The lone dissenting vote, from Ward 2 Councilor Shane Brooks, centered on concerns about heavy traffic near the new location rather than opposition to replacing the aging building itself.
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Ludlow High School Cracking Down On Personal Devices
When students were told this year that Ludlow Public Schools would be cracking down on the phone policy, not many students were surprised. However, the extent to which it has been taken is way more severe than students expected. It started off as just putting your phone in the phone...
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Chicopee City Council approves bond for Barry School’s new location
CHICOPEE — Students of the Anna E. Barry Elementary School will have a new school location in 2029. At a packed City Council meeting on Wednesday evening, all but one city councilor voted in favor of funding the new location for the grades K-through-five school that serves 331 students: a site next to the Szetela Early Childhood Center. The early childhood center will be renovated, city officials said.
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Westfield State unions vote ‘no confidence’ in academic chief William Salka
WESTFIELD — Three campus unions at Westfield State University, representing a total of 600 workers, voted last month "no confidence" in a top administrator they blame for creating a toxic work environment and undermining the university's mission. Nearly 82% of the votes expressed no confidence in Provost and Vice...