by tjohnston | Sep 12, 2017 | Local News
SOUTHAMPTON — Brian Chamberlin stood in front of a sixth-grade class and held up a metal squeegee. The tool saved lives on Sept. 11, 2001, he told his students at the William E. Norris School, when a maintenance worker used it to help people who were stuck in an...
by tjohnston | Sep 11, 2017 | CES Stories, Local News
AMHERST — The pope endorsed Donald Trump, who himself is facing sealed indictments and possibly the death penalty for espionage. Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and some members of his Democratic Party are engaged in a human trafficking ring run out of...
by tjohnston | Sep 8, 2017 | Local News
How do you write about the happy life you hope for your child to have when you have a hard time picturing it yourself? For 18 years, I’ve dreaded the yearly ritual of writing a “vision statement” for an Individualized Education Plan, or I.E.P., for our son, Ethan. He...
by tjohnston | Sep 8, 2017 | Local News
GREENFIELD — How Greenfield should look to fund the school district’s constantly growing technology needs provoked a robust conservation at an afternoon school subcommittee meeting this week. Quickly it was agreed that the current ways to pay for new technology, like...
by tjohnston | Sep 8, 2017 | Local News
NORTHFIELD — When preparing this school year’s budget, Northfield Elementary School Principal Megan Desmarais was anticipating another year with declining enrollment, a steady trend for more than a decade. But as enrollment numbers took shape in August, Desmarais was...
