New Salem

Police patrol time increasing in New Salem; Swift River School finance formula changing

Monday, May 20, 2013

NEW SALEM — There will be about 20 additional hours of police patrol each week and the formula used to determine the town’s elementary school costs will be changed slightly, after voters had their say at a three-hour annual town meeting Monday. Forty residents — a turnout of about 5.5 percent of registered voters — approved New Salem’s $2.46 million budget, including $1.47 million in education expenses. Voters allocated $23,338 … 0

Union 28 supt. tapped for new job in eastern Mass.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

ERVING — Joan Wickman, the seven-year superintendent of Union 28 schools, is in contract negotiations to take a new job as superintendent-principal of a public PreK-grade 8 school in Carlisle. The Carlisle School Committee voted unanimously late last week to appoint Wickman to the post, according to a notice on the school’s website. If contract negotiations are successful, she is expected to start … 0

Money for machines

Friday, May 17, 2013

TURNERS FALLS — Manufacturers’ effort to secure $500,000 for new metal-working machines at Franklin County Technical School — to help train 21st century metal workers for local industries desperate for such workers — won another victory Wednesday: a $250,000 proposed allocation from the state’s Senate Ways and Means Committee. The Senate committee’s budget proposal said, “that not less than $250,000 shall be used … 0