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FALLS VILLAGE — Martha Schwaikert is the new director of Pupil Services, which includes special education, for Region One.
Schwaikert was appointed by the Region One Board of Education at a special meeting on Sept. 21 to replace Carl Gross, who has retired.
FALLS VILLAGE — Documentary filmmaker and local historian Eric Veden is back with the 25th installment of his video series on Falls Village.
The episode is heavy on artisans, with visits to the glass-blowing shop of Andy Pyle and Leslie French, Kathy Wismar’s ceramics studio, and Karin Gerstel of Undermountain Weavers in Salisbury.
FALLS VILLAGE — At the regular meeting of the Board of Finance on Monday, Oct. 18, Jandi Hanna, president of the Falls Village Housing Trust, made the announcement that the Falls Village Housing Trust did not get a state Community Development Block Grant.
FALLS VILLAGE — The official enrollment figures for Region One were presented by Superintendent Lisa Carter at the Oct. 4 regular meeting of the Region One Board of Education.
FALLS VILLAGE — A committee of the Board of Finance met briefly Tuesday morning, Sept. 28, to discuss how best to protect the town from financial liability concerning the use of state funds for affordable housing.
The committee consisted of Dan Silverman and Board of Finance Chair Dick Heinz.
Carly Sugar herded her charges (two Nubian goats) during a goat tour at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center on Sunday, Sept. 26. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — Carly Sugar told a small group everything they ever wanted to know about goats on a brisk Sunday morning, Sept. 26, at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.
The goat tour was part of the Housatonic Heritage walk series.
Sugar, of Detroit, Mich., has been working at the center for about two years.
Dick Heinz briefed a group of visitors on the background of buildings in the Falls Village historic district during a Housatonic Heritage walk on Saturday, Sept. 25. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — Dick Heinz and Judy Jacobs led a group of eight visitors around the historic district of Falls Village on Saturday, Sept. 25.
The tour was part of the Housatonic Heritage series of informative walks and tours.
FALLS VILLAGE — First Selectmen Henry Todd told the Board of Finance Monday, Sept. 13 that the town will receive some $331,000 in federal pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2020 (ARPA). The town has already received about $155,000, with the remainder expected in May or June 2022.
FALLS VILLAGE — After an online “dispute resolution hearing” before members of the Connecticut Democratic Party’s state central committee, the committee members voted unanimously to dismiss a complaint from a group of Falls Village Democrats over the town committee’s nominating and endorsement process.
FALLS VILLAGE — Housatonic Valley Regional High School Principal Ian Strever told the Region One Board of Education that enrollment at the high school is up — unofficially.
The regional board held its regular monthly meeting online on Monday, Sept. 13.
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