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By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — Superintendent finalist Erica Faginski-Stark has withdrawn her candidacy after city students voiced concerns about the Ludlow educator to Mayor Nicole LaChapelle.The mayor, a member of the School Committee, told the Gazette that students...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — Just as the School Committee was getting ready to select Erica Faginski-Stark as its new superintendent on the evening of April 10, a member of the high school’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance Club reached out to the mayor’s office with...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — Shannon Dunham has resigned from the School Committee.Dunham announced her decision with a photo of her official resignation letter via a post on her School Committee Facebook page Saturday night.“I officially resigned from the...
By SARA WEINBERGER
On the first Sunday in February, I ascended the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, bought my ticket, and headed for an exhibition that friends had urged me to see. “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina,”...
Area fire departments have incorporated into their daily routine/job requirement physical exercising sessions. Fire and police unions and Civil Service have been adamant over the years that the mandatory passing of a yearly physical agility/endurance...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee could approve a contract with a new superintendent Friday if negotiations with finalist Erica Faginski-Stark are fruitful.The committee expects to begin the remote meeting at 4 p.m. in open session, followed by a...
By TOLLEY M. JONES
“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?”― Frederick DouglassI am still so tired.I am tired of having so many upsetting and horrible things...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — A Needham developer’s $30.4 million pitch to transform the city’s three former elementary schools into 61 units of mixed-income housing and preserving Pepin Gym and auditorium for community use has emerged as the favorite reuse plan for...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — Following a particularly contentious discussion before a virtual audience of nearly 1,000 people Monday night, the School Committee agreed not to reenter into negotiations with superintendent finalist Vito Perrone and instead selected...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton will soon require property owners sitting on vacant storefronts to register their buildings and pay a fee that will be used to create and maintain an online database of spaces available to rent in the city.The new...
I was incensed when I read the article several days ago on the withdrawal of the superintendent offer to Vito Perrone, believing that it was because he used the salutation “ladies.” I am embarrassed that I believed his version of the events, without...
When I was a senior in high school in 2014, and Dr. Vito Perrone was in his fifth year as principal at Easthampton High School, there was debate over the dress code spurred on by a misguided announcement by the assistant principal at the time. My...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — A Dover man is proposing to bring new life to a city property that hasn’t seen any activity in roughly two decades.Blake Underhill, owner of Easthampton Holdings LLC, purchased 2 East St. in November with the hope of expanding his...
I live in Easthampton and my daughter attended Easthampton public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade. She is about to graduate from college. I am disheartened to see the nature of the uproar supporting Dr. Vito Perrone after his...
By HANNAH BEVIS
EASTHAMPTON — Just a couple of months ago, Lauren Morse was making history with the girls basketball team, sinking her 1,000th point in front of a packed home crowd. On a chilly Friday afternoon, she added her name to the history books again with her...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — A week after the School Committee’s decision to rescind a job offer to superintendent finalist Vito Perrone because he used the salutation “Ladies” in an email, Chairperson Cynthia Kwiecinski spoke out for the first time on Thursday,...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — The city has adjusted its Zoom subscription to accommodate the hundreds of people who are looking to attend the city’s School Committee meeting at which it will discuss its superintendent search. That meeting is now scheduled for Monday...
I never thought I’d see the day in my lifetime that the U.S would be in such turmoil. The news coverage in newspapers, on TV channels and social media technologies is dismal to say it lightly. Is the U.S. in dire trouble with all that’s been...
The finalist for the school superintendent position in Easthampton attributes his use of certain language to childhood learning. Others, in support of the finalist, have made similar remarks. I hope that neither the finalist nor his supporters are...
By OWEN ZARET
Dan Rist recently announced his retirement from the Easthampton City Council. As I look back on what is now my sixth year on the council, and all that has entailed, it is just a drop in the bucket compared to Councilor Rist’s 27 years serving the...
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