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Student Advisory Council members Bala Ramkumar and Nina Iverson can’t contain their glee as they head out of Bromfield School graduation, Saturday, June 7. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz) MORE PHOTOS
Graduates of the Bromfield School Class of 2025 walked to the school’s 145th graduation exercises Saturday morning to the bittersweet notes of Noah Kahan’s “You’re Gonna Go Far,” a fitting anthem of nostalgia and hope for a class that weathered the disruption of COVID-19 during its formative eighth- and ninth-grade years.
As the 2024–2025 school year comes to an end, the schools say farewell to seven staff members, six of whom are retiring.
Gathered around a table on the Hildreth House porch, Select Board members met to decide what they wanted to achieve on behalf of the town in the coming year. With only a five-minute break and running just 15 minutes past its scheduled three hours, the board drafted six goals for fiscal 2026.
Following a federal court order, the Shriver Job Corps Center in Devens reopened on Monday, June 9—but by then, most of its students were already gone. The center’s closure followed a May 29 announcement by the U.S. Department of Labor that it would “pause” all contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide by June 30.
The town has contracted with Capital Strategic Solutions, a municipal consulting firm based in Marlborough, for an interim Department of Public Works director.
Although it is still fairly early in the growing season, orchards in town are already feeling the impacts of the extreme shift in weather, with some reporting delayed plant growth and crop losses.
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