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By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — In recognition of her work to grow the music program at Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, music instructor Alyssa Comeau received a 2025 Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — In the wake of last year’s ballot question to remove the MCAS test as a graduation requirement, school officials this week decided on the competency determination students must meet to get their diplomas at Turners Falls High School.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Two hundred and sixty-five students and staff members at Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School have signed a petition advocating to keep School Resource Officer Dan Miner, whose position is being eliminated as part of fiscal year 2026 budget cuts.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Community members in the Gill-Montague Regional School District are advocating against fiscal year 2026 budget cuts that will result in layoffs for the school resource officer, the curriculum director and a special education instructional assistant.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As the Gill-Montague Regional District School Committee prepares to finalize its budget for the next fiscal year, it faces an approximately $400,000 roadblock in the form of a current $200,000 budget deficit and a $200,000 revenue shortfall for next year.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Dan Miner, who serves as the school resource officer at Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School, is leaving the school temporarily, along with comfort dog Mack, due to staffing shortages within the Montague Police Department.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The selectboards and finance committees of Gill and Montague met with Gill-Montague Regional School District administrators this week to review the proposed fiscal year 2026 school budget ahead of a Feb. 11 public hearing.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — Gill-Montague Regional School District’s $1.3 million projected budget shortfall for fiscal year 2026 has been mitigated, and a revised preliminary budget was unanimously approved by the School Committee Tuesday night.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — As the Gill-Montague Regional School District begins to revise its budget for fiscal year 2026, figures presented during Tuesday’s School Committee meeting show a $1.3 million shortfall.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — Following the teachers union’s Dec. 13 vote of no confidence leveled against Superintendent Brian Beck and Director of Facilities and Energy Heath Cummings, the Gill-Montague Regional School District is relaunching a Joint Labor Management Committee to act as a problem-solving board.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

TURNERS FALLS — The Gill-Montague Education Association (GMEA) announced to the School Committee on Tuesday that it has taken a vote of no-confidence in Gill-Montague Regional School District Superintendent Brian Beck, as well as Heath Cummings, the...

By CHRIS LARABEE, MADISON SCHOFIELD, ANTHONY CAMMALLERI, ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and DOMENIC POLI

The MCAS scores for 2024 have been released, showing that approximately 30.1% of Franklin County and North Quabbin students met or exceeded expectations, 48.5% partially met expectations and 21.5% did not meet expectations in the math and English...

Gill-Montague School Committee seeks new memberMONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District has an open School Committee seat for a Montague resident.Interested Montague residents should email Executive Assistant Tara McCarthy at...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — A lot has changed since 1954. What hasn’t changed is the tight-knit relationships fostered by the Turners Falls High School Class of 1954.On Thursday, nine of the class’ 19 surviving members got together at Terrazza Ristorante to mark...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — The Selectboard approved spending $431,707 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money during Monday’s meeting, including $75,000 that will fund the after-school program at Sheffield Elementary School.The ARPA package contained other funding...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL – The Gill-Montague Regional School District (GMRSD) was notified in early August that Sheffield Elementary School would no longer receive funding for an after-school program through its partnership with the Collaborative for Educational Services...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

Following an overall decline in teacher retention in 2023, Franklin County and North Quabbin school districts saw a mix of increased and decreased retention rates in the 2023-2024 school year, according to data from the state Department of Elementary...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

MONTAGUE — The Gill-Montague Regional School District has a few positions that will see new leadership beginning in the fall.Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School Principal Christopher Barnes is leaving the district after a...

MONTAGUE — Lori-Lee Adams and Carol Jacobs each claimed three-year terms on the Gill-Montague Regional School District School Committee during Tuesday’s election, defeating challenger Scott Hyman.Adams and Jacobs won handily, receiving 505 and 487...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

MONTAGUE — All but one of the races on the ballot for Tuesday’s town election are uncontested, with three candidates competing for two open seats with three-year terms on the Gill-Montague Regional School District School Committee.Montague voters can...

March 23: Great Falls Coffeehouse series begins MONTAGUE — The Franklin County Musicians Cooperative will kick off the Great Falls Coffeehouse series on Saturday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Avenue A. Doors open at 6:30...