Granville school administrators and teachers are playing a new role now that they have had a chance to look at the weak Regents scores for the 2011-2012 school year. All of a sudden, they are detectives. “We’ve got to identify where the breakdown was,” said Superintendent Mark Bessen when asked about the district’s response to [...]
State issues school test scores: Whitehall doing well in middle school, lagging elsewhere
Middle school students in the Whitehall School district are outperforming their peers statewide and more students are graduating but elementary and high school students continue to score lower than their peers across the state. The percentage of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students in the Whitehall School district who are meeting the basic standards on state [...]
Georgiana Hulett Taylor, 96
Georgiana Hulett Taylor, 96, of Westmoreland, N.H., died May 30, 2008 at the Maplewood Nursing Home, Westmoreland, following a period of declining health and a brief illness. She was born in Springfield, Mass., on May 22, 1912, the daughter of Neal Dow and Azuba (Ayers) Hulett. She resided in Chicoppe Falls, Mass., where she [...]





