by tjohnston | Apr 12, 2019 | Local News
BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School District is planning to incorporate more Native American instruction in its history and social studies courses. There are two main reasons for this renewed push: a new state social studies framework was released last June and...
by tjohnston | Apr 6, 2019 | Local News
TURNERS FALLS, Mass (WWLP) – Turners Falls’ Franklin County Technical School celebrated the completion of the school’s newly renovated and modernized Welding and Metal Fabrication program Friday. “We had 50 or 60 people in a small group that...
by tjohnston | Apr 3, 2019 | Local News
MONTAGUE – With a unanimous vote from the Gill Montague Regional School Committee, the caps and gowns for Turners Falls High School’s graduating seniors will be blue across the board. The decision was prompted by an appeal by the high school’s chapter of the Bridges...
by tjohnston | Apr 3, 2019 | Local News
NORTHFIELD — Leyden’s Pearl Rhodes Elementary School is closing at the end of June, the Pioneer Valley Regional School Committee decided last night. Warwick Community School, which the committee has also been thinking about closing, gets another year, for now. “Ladies...
by tjohnston | Mar 27, 2019 | Local News
AMHERST — Every year, second graders at Fort River Elementary School work on underwater sea drawings in art class. Amid sketching fish and seaweed, art teacher Nicole Singer, who is in her sixth year at the school, said she will hear student conversation about...
