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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Amid recent community dialogues on whether to station school resource officers (SROs) in the district, Police Chief Todd Dodge said the School and Police departments have agreed upon a number of safety initiatives that are currently...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Following months of discussions on ways to make schools safer, the School Committee has voted unanimously to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Police Department that allows officers to monitor the schools’ live security...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After the School Committee voted 5-2 against a proposal to study stationing a school resource officer in one of the district’s schools, the Public Safety Commission challenged the school board on Wednesday to send a written questionnaire...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee members joined Superintendent Karin Patenaude on Tuesday evening for the inaugural meeting of its new Community Engagement Subcommittee. The new government body, chaired by School Committee member Stacey Sexton, will meet...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) has selected School Committee member Elizabeth DeNeeve to be a 2024 All-State School Committee Member — the first such recognition presented to a Greenfield School Committee member...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee members voted 5-2 against a proposal from Mayor Ginny Desorgher to study the possibility of stationing a school resource officer in one of the district’s schools.The proposal was brought to the committee last month after...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — After a city councilor’s query into the School Department’s special education transportation budget led to a conflict over transparency, School Committee Chair Glenn Johnson-Mussad and Superintendent Karin Patenaude hope to mend relations...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — City councilors are pleading for increased transparency from the School Department amid concerns over the district’s spending, particularly on special education transportation.This year, the School Department’s more than $878,000 special...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The School Committee has voted in favor of decommissioning the vacant Green River School, prompting uncertainty as to the site’s future and the status of the more than $1 million in grants and loans issued to the School Department to...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Orange Elementary and Ralph C. Mahar Regional school committees obliged their town’s Selectboard on Monday by revisiting the budgets they’re proposing at the Annual Town Meeting, but only Mahar voted to further trim costs as asked.Because...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — As the Greenfield School Department works to decommission the vacant Green River School and transfer ownership to the city, challenges have arisen as the district works to tie up loose financial ends with the Massachusetts School Building...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee member and former Chair Amy Proietti has resigned from the board, just four months after winning a second, four-year term.“It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as a member of the Greenfield School Committee,”...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Voters will decide a four-way contest for three seats on the School Committee in the upcoming city election, as two incumbents are not seeking reelection.The four candidates are incumbent School Committee Chairwoman Amy Proietti, and...

By DOMENIC POLI

ERVING — Erving School Union 28 Superintendent Jennifer Culkeen is back on the job following a month-long leave that began June 2, the day after she abruptly walked out of a School Committee meeting during a discussion about student discipline.Culkeen...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

GREENFIELD — The former superintendent is running for re-election, aspiring to move from a two-year term to a four-year term on the Greenfield School Committee.Susan Hollins is the current head of the policy subcommittee, an influential group that has...