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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
ERVING — After six months as interim principal, Beth Gannon will be sticking around Erving Elementary School as the permanent principal.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
Two years since Gov. Maura Healey launched MassReconnect, a program ensuring a free community college education for students ages 25 and older who do not have bachelor’s degrees, community colleges in western Massachusetts have seen year-to-year enrollment increases.
By DOMENIC POLI
GREENFIELD — The 21st annual Blooming Backpacks drive to collect new backpacks filled with school supplies for students in need will conclude on Tuesday, Aug. 5.
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
MONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District is preparing for the start of the school year with new hires, while interim Superintendent Tari Thomas begins her entry plan.
By CHRIS LARABEE
NORTHFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee didn’t have to look too far to find its new director of finance and operations.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College has received $613,095 in state funding for programs aimed at training 72 students for jobs in health care and early childhood education.
By CHRIS LARABEE
While the Six Town Regionalization Planning Board awaits feedback from the state on its proposed regional agreement, it is also preparing assessment models for the potential Great River Regional School District.
AMHERST — The following students from Franklin County were named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the spring semester.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BOSTON — State legislators are considering the value of school resource officers and whether to create a grant fund to support their training.
By LUKE MACANNUCO
NORTHFIELD — Outside Northfield Elementary School, Parent-Teacher Organization volunteer Cheryl George watched as a Graves Concrete truck poured the concrete foundation for the school’s new outdoor pavilion.
By CHRIS LARABEE
NORTHFIELD — The search is underway for a new director of finance and operations at the Pioneer Valley Regional School District.
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School will soon be more energy-efficient after securing $524,000 in grants.
By AALIANNA MARIETTA
Barbara Yue traveled more than 7,000 miles from Shanghai to visit the Giving Tree School in Gill.
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE — Summer and after-school programming appears to be in jeopardy after the U.S. Department of Education announced it is withholding certain funding, including 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants, for the 2025-2026 school year.
By DOUG SELWYN
In the first week of his presidency, President Trump said: “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government.”
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BOSTON — Bills proposing $60 million for rural schools are necessary to ensure their continued survival, Pioneer Valley residents told state legislators on Wednesday.
By CHRIS LARABEE
NORTHFIELD — A revitalized greenhouse and garden, rehabilitation of the school’s cross-country trail and work with the Franklin Land Trust are all highlights of Pioneer Valley Regional School’s nascent Innovation Career Pathways environmental science program.
By CHRIS LISINSKI
BOSTON — “Electronic cocaine.” “A youth behavioral health crisis on steroids.” “Nothing’s more aggravating to me as a parent.”
By CHRIS LARABEE
BOSTON — Rural school aid is likely to stay level-funded in the fiscal year 2026 budget, even after more testimony from local advocates on Beacon Hill this month.
By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI
GREENFIELD — The School Committee voted 6-1 on Saturday to appoint Monson Public Schools interim Superintendent Roland Joyal Jr. to serve as Greenfield’s interim superintendent after six candidates were interviewed over the course of the day.
By MADISON SCHOFIELD
BUCKLAND — The Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee has rated Superintendent Sheryl Stanton as “exemplary.”
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