by tjohnston | Jul 18, 2017 | Local News
GRANBY — Holyoke High School’s principal is taking his talents east to Granby. Stephen Sullivan, Holyoke High’s principal since 2014, has been named the new principal at Granby Junior/Senior High School. Sullivan previously served as assistant principal at Holyoke...
by tjohnston | Jul 13, 2017 | Local News, State/National News
Maybe someone should arrange a school bus ride across the 530 road miles of the Mohawk Trail Regional School District for state legislators from those geographically tiny Boston metro cities and towns. Seriously. How else will the majority of state lawmakers, who hail...
by tjohnston | Jul 10, 2017 | Local News
CHARLEMONT — Hawlemont is a school where everyone does farm chores, so it’s no big deal for the school principal, on a summer afternoon, to feed the school’s 19 chickens and five piglets before ending the day. “The staff take turns, when school’s out,” explains...
by tjohnston | Jun 28, 2017 | Local News
ORANGE — A Ralph C. Mahar Regional School student will represent her school and her state at the Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine at Brandeis University. Kacy Ninteau is one of 230 delegates selected from hundreds of applicants for the program taking...
by tjohnston | Jun 28, 2017 | Local News
EASTHAMPTON — To guide her students as they studied ancient Greece and Rome this spring, sixth-grade teacher Judith Breier took a different approach from the traditional textbook lesson. On June 20, the class took a trip to the ancient civilizations — virtually. “Look...