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By BRIAN STEELE
NORTHAMPTON — The School Committee voted to approve a $35.1 million district budget on Thursday night that includes an extra $250,000 earmarked for pay negotiations, hours after a small army of educators took to the steps of City Hall to demand higher...
By ALLYSON SMITH
Throughout my 16-year educational career, I have been asked countless times to think about a memorable teacher. Any number of professors, administrators, and professional development instructors have asked this of participants to get at their...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Ahead of what is shaping up to be a contentious budget year, school leaders are taking a step back to develop a longer-term vision for the city’s schools.Superintendent Portia Bonner has formed a new strategic planning team to craft a...
By STEVE PFARRER
In the 1990s, Sally Greenhouse had a regular gig on Northampton Community Television (now Northampton Open Media, or NOM) with her show “The Greenhouse Effect,” a combination of performance art, monologue and comedy in which the multidisciplinary...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
AMHERST — Longtime Amherst educator Mary Custard won the 2017 Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association on Friday.The dean of students and former athletic director at Amherst Regional High School, Custard...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
BELCHERTOWN — After almost a year without a new contract for workers, Belchertown teachers and their school district have agreed to tentative terms, though custodial, secretarial, food service and paraprofessional bargaining units continue to...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
SOUTH HADLEY — A 67-year-old South Hadley man whose sister said had an adventurous streak died unexpectedly in India this week while trekking a popular trail in India. “He enjoyed life to the fullest,” said June Greener by phone from her home in...
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