HATFIELD — In 1992, Anne Thalheimer was a teenager in her second year at Bard College at Simon’s Rock when her life changed. “I was writing a paper for his class … and then the phone rang, a voice telling us to turn out the lights, lock the door and get down on the...
ERVING — The sound of children’s laughter blended with the crashing and rattling of bowling pins at the French King Bowling alley Thursday during another week of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Special Olympics bowling season. The annual program is...
BELCHERTOWN — Swift River Elementary School teacher Geoffrey Gould is in the running to take home Grammy gold on Sunday after being chosen as a finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award. Gould, who was nominated for the award by a colleague, found out last year...
When he was little, Shane Mang, the son of Cambodian immigrants, spoke some Khmer, the Cambodian language, around his home. Now a sixth grader at Crocker Farm School, Shane is reminded of many basic words in that language while attending an after-school program...
TURNERS FALLS — The newest advisors to the Montague Selectboard may be a group of high school students. As the culminating project for the semester, the Turners Falls High School physics class studied two difficult turns on roads in Turners Falls to try to...
NORTHFIELD — After more than a month of design, programming and prototype construction, Pioneer Valley Regional School’s engineering design students displayed their robotic fish feeders during the first-ever Engineering Expo last week. The Engineering Expo...
At 18 years old, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education,” in an essay for his Morehouse College newspaper. That sentiment will ring true this weekend when students from across the state meet in Boston to...
GREENFIELD — Jake Toomey has worked in every grade level of education from preschool to 12th grade. So it seems fitting to him to add higher education to his resumé. The 41-year-old said he will step down as principal of the Discovery School at Four Corners on...
ORANGE – What is the next primary school in Orange to be called? And how much will it cost (or how much will taxpayers be willing to support)? These key issues related to the Orange school building project will be discussed at the next meeting of the school...
AMHERST — While only Fort River Elementary School has been accepted into the eligibility period for the Massachusetts School Building Authority, Amherst school officials are committed to making sure the needs of Wildwood Elementary School’s teachers, staff and...
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