Schools
Q&A with John Hunter follows the "World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements" documentary screening on Monday, January 28th, 7pm to 8:30pm, Richardson-Mees Performing Arts Center at Lawrence Academy. Hunter is a teacher, an author and inventor of The World Peace Game. He is the 2019 J....
The Middle School Mittens Project which was featured in a photo on Page Two in last week’s Groton Herald reports a final total of $6,910 was raised by Middle School students.
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by Robert Stewart
The School Committee is expected to make a decision on a later starting time for High School students in the coming weeks and prior to adopting the District’s fiscal 2020 budget. The Committee will decide whether to start the high school day at approximately the same time as...
Students at the Groton-Dunstable Middle School raised money to support Project Mitten, benefitting the Groton’s Community Children’s Fund. Students held fund raisers within each grade level. Eighth graders and their families donated items for eight themed raffle baskets, then sold raffle tickets...
UMass Lowell’s online education programs rank among the top in the nation, according to new rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report.
UMass Lowell’s online graduate programs in criminal justice and information technology are ranked in the top 10 in the nation and are No. 1 among...
by Robert Stewart
The School Committee has more than one challenge ahead of them in the upcoming year as they not only deliberate on developing a fiscal 2020 operating budget which is starting with major unexpected expenses but also grappling with upgrading or replacing an aging elementary...
After a national search, the Applewild Board of Trustees unanimously appointed Lunenburg native Amy Jolly to be Applewild’s seventh Head of School. Amy will begin her tenure on July 1, 2019.
Most recently, Amy was the Head of School at Maine Girls Academy in Portland, ME. She began her...
by Robert Stewart
As the budgeting process for the School District enters its initial development phase for the fiscal year 2020 operating budget, the District finds itself in a deficit position that will present challenges for the School Committee which could frustrate their goal of investing...
For the second time in 2018, the ‘spirit’ rock was painted over with a message inspiring local controversy. Last April 3, as they arrived at school, the Groton-Dunstable High School administration was greeted with a pro-NRA message painted on the school’s spirit rock. The pro-NRA message painted...
Ayer Shirley Regional High School Drama Club started something new last winter by offering an evening of improvisation and comedy. Thus started the "Quick Wits," ASRHS’ improv troupe. The project went over so well that the Club is expanding on the program in hopes of making it an annual treat, the...