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Dartmouth High hosts robotics scrimmage

The Dartmouth High School Robotics teams and the Normandin Robotics Team from Normandin Middle School in New Bedford hosted a scrimmage featuring nine teams from across Massachusetts Nov. 21 at Dartmouth High School. The scrimmage gave teams a...

University officials celebrate more than a decade of UMass Law with renovated atrium

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A newly renovated atrium dedicated to two women who made significant contributions to the creation of UMass Law was unveiled Nov. 16 as part of the celebration of the tenth year anniversary of the school. The lobby was dedicated to Chancellor...
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Parking fees likely to drop, School Committee says

Parking fees for Dartmouth High School students will likely be reduced for the fiscal year 23 budget cycle, School Committee members said at their Nov. 15 meeting, which was open to the public for the first time since the pandemic hit. Although a...

Wampanoag tribe opposes state bill to remove Indian logos, mascots

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A bill that would ban Native American mascots statewide should be scrapped, leaders of a local Wampanoag tribe said. The announcement comes as the tribe works with school officials on the future of the controversial Dartmouth High Indian logo...

UMass Dartmouth awarded $700K for new biodegradable plastics lab

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UMass Dartmouth announced Wednesday that the university was awarded $739,936 from the Baker-Polito administration to support the development of a new research and development laboratory at its School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST)...

‘Diary of Anne Frank’ to be performed at Stang Nov. 13 and 14

Bishop Stang Theatre Company will present “The Diary of Anne Frank,’’ by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and newly adapted by Wendy Keselman, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14 at Bishop Stang High School, 500 Slocum Road. In...

Petals to medals: Dartmouth High band and color guard are national champs

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For the fifth time since 2016, the Dartmouth High marching band and color guard returned from the Meadowlands as the top in the nation, winning their tenth overall championship in program history. Heralded by fire engines and police cars with sirens...

Education foundation awards grants

From sensory sand tables to Esports gaming equipment, ten educational projects received a total of $11,370 in funding from the Dartmouth Education Foundation. Nineteen teachers applied for grants, and ten projects were selected for funding. Every...

Stang hosts open house

Bishop Stang High School will host an open house Sunday, Nov. 7. The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m.

UMass Dartmouth among the most ‘green’ schools for 10th year in a row

UMass Dartmouth has been listed among the top environmentally-friendly colleges and universities in the nation, according to The Princeton Review’s latest guide to green colleges. This is the tenth year in a row UMass Dartmouth has received the...

School Committee meetings reopen to public

The public will be invited to attend School Committee meetings in person again beginning Nov. 15, committee members agreed.. “It’s been a long time coming,’’ committee member John Nunes said at a Nov. 1 meeting. The committee began meeting virtually...

UMass Dartmouth union president awarded for labor activism

Nicholas Gula, president of the AFT Maintainers Union at UMass Dartmouth, was recently given an award from the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council for his work in labor activism in the past year. Gula connected state officials with the...

Dartmouth High places first at competitive home show

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Flags and scores were high as the Dartmouth High marching band took first place in the New England Scholastic Band Association fall show hosted at a full Memorial Stadium on Oct. 23. More than 20 schools from across the state, split into five...

Bishop Stang Theatre Company to present “The Diary of Anne Frank”

The Bishop Stang Theatre Company will present the drama “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Keselman. In this adaptation, survivor accounts and newly discovered writings from Frank’s diary are...

Nunes honored for commitment to School Committee, community

Veteran School Committee member John Nunes received a lifetime achievement award from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees for his 31 years of service on the committee and for his community efforts, School Committee members reported at...

Dartmouth High student honored as National Merit semi-finalist

Dartmouth High School senior Jack Kertscher has earned the rare accomplishment of being one of only 344 students from across the state to be named a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. The honor, which is based on the Preliminary...

Third graders sell cookies to buy books for DeMello School

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The library at DeMello School will see a big selection of new books thanks to a couple of smart cookies and their bake sale in Padanaram. Wanting to help their fellow students have more access to newer reading material, eight-year-olds Emma Horgan...

UMass Dartmouth receives $1 million gift to support community engagement

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UMass Dartmouth just got a big gift to help ensure that its faculty and students keep on giving. The university on Thursday received a $1 million gift from 1978 graduate Robert Leduc, and his wife Jeanne, to expand community service programming at...

Dartmouth student awarded Coast Guard scholarship

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A student from South Dartmouth attending Fitchburg State University this fall was awarded a scholarship from the Coast Guard Foundation. According to a release, Cailey Desirey was among 158 students honored by the foundation that awarded a total of...

School Committee members seek clarity on cancellations

School Committee chair Dr. Shannon Jenkins encouraged administrators at the Sept. 27 meeting to “think outside the box’’ if necessary to ensure that students can participate in as many traditional activities as possible despite the challenges of...

Stang building turf field of dreams

“Game on.’’ That’s both the name of the ongoing stadium renovation project at Bishop Stang High School and the words Spartan sports fan can expect to hear more often as a result of the effort. Installing artificial turf to replace grass is a major...

UMass Dartmouth begins search for new athletic director

UMass Dartmouth is now searching for a new athletic director. The university announced Sept. 22 the creation of a 12-person committee charged with finding a candidate to fill the vacancy left by Amanda Van Voorhis. Van Voorhis assumed a new role in...

Book by UMass Dartmouth historians explores sea routes used by escaped slaves

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When one thinks about the Underground Railroad, what typically comes to mind is the overland routes escaped slaves took from the antebellum South to find their freedom in the North. While that was common early on, Timothy Walker, a professor of...

In wake of pandemic, MCAS scores drop in Dartmouth, state

In a trend that mirrors districts across the state, Dartmouth’s 2021 MCAS standardized testing results dropped from previous years, which education officials attribute to learning loss during the pandemic. “Our growth appears to be hovering in the...

Contract awarded for Memorial Stadium storage building

School Committee members last week awarded a $1,675,000 contract to JJ Cardosi of Riverside, R.I. to construct the storage building at Memorial Stadium, part of the ongoing process to upgrade the facility. The figure is “a little bit higher than we...

Nearly 50 test positive for Covid in first weeks of new school year

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Just a few weeks into the new academic year, Covid-19 cases have already started to pop up in Dartmouth’s schools. According to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bonny Gifford, the district has had 47 positive cases reported since classes began on Sept...

UMass Dartmouth ranks high in U.S. schools for social mobility

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The U.S. News & World Report 2022 College Rankings released this week place UMass Dartmouth in the top 100 schools nationwide for the upward social mobility of its students. The social mobility ranking measures the size of the...

Masks to be required for outside groups in schools

Outside groups using Dartmouth schools will be required to wear masks while in the building, School Committee members agreed at their Sept. 13 meeting, saying visitors should follow the same rule as students and staff. “We have to protect our staff...

Nut products to be banned at middle school

Nut products will be prohibited at the Dartmouth Middle School due to concerns that eating at desks rather than in the cafeteria could increase the risk of exposure, School Committee members said at their Sept. 13 meeting. Although students clean...

Students honored for AP success

Dartmouth High School students have been honored for their results in their AP work. Twenty-one students have been awarded AP Capstone Diplomas and Certificates for earning scores of three or higher i n AP Seminar, AP Research, and on four...

Talk planned on Afghan journey

UMass Dartmouth Professor of Islamic History Brian Glyn Williams will give a public Zoom lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9 titled “Journey into Afghanistan – the real stories and people behind the Taliban Conquest.” The talk is the latest in the...

First day of school gets high marks from superintendent

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The first day of school is in the books, and it was a good one, Superintendent of Schools Bonny Gifford said Wednesday, Sept. 1. The district faced what Gifford described as “few little glitches’’ that she said are normal for first days, such as a...

Things (mostly) normal as freshmen move in to UMass dorms

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Carts full of ramen packs, figuring out which bed to sleep in, and planned trips to Target for last-minute supplies — after a mostly quiet year inside the residence halls, dorm life is back at UMass Dartmouth. The first-year Corsairs arrived at...

Southcoast Hospitals’ Auxiliaries & Guild awards scholarships to Dartmouth students

Southcoast Hospitals’ Auxiliaries & Guild has awarded scholarships of $1,000 each to three Dartmouth school students: Bishop Stang grad Alexis Dutra, who will be majoring in biomedical engineering at Tufts University; Dartmouth High Class of...

Reassure children as school year starts, advocate says

With a new school year about to start, children may feel stressed, anxious, excited or hopeful, Dartmouh Youth Advocate Deloris Joseph reassured parents during a Zoom presentation Thursday. Sometimes, she said, they can experience all of these...

Masks on, but social distancing off for new school year

Although students will be mandated to wear masks indoors , as they did last school year, social distancing will not be required, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bonny Gifford told School Committee members Monday. With the school year set to start in...

Two Dartmouth students named to dean’s list

Two Dartmouth students have been named to the dean’s list at Salem State University for the spring 2021 semester. William Crane and Marisa Parisi are both students in the College of Arts and Sciences at the university.

UMass Law Justice Bridge program gets boost from bank

The UMass Law Justice Bridge program received a $120,000 grant July 21 from Bristol County Savings Bank, through its Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation, to bolster the program’s mission of providing quality legal representation to...

St. Julie Billiart Ladies Guild awards four scholarships

The St. Julie Billiart Ladies Guild of Dartmouth has awarded scholarships of $1,000 each to four students: Emmie Parker, who is attending University of Rhode Island; Owen Quigley Mello, who is attending UMass Amherst; Michael H. Cornell ,...

Online forum will be set to discuss Indian mascot

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The public will be invited to provide input on whether to retain or eliminate the Dartmouth High School Indian mascot via an upcoming online event, members of the Equality and Diversity Subcommittee agreed at their meeting Wednesday, Aug. 18. “This...

Letter writers decline invite to upcoming mascot meeting

The authors of a letter supporting the controversial Dartmouth High Indian logo have declined an invitation to speak at an Aug. 18 meeting on the topic, calling for federally recognized tribes to be heard first and citing “prior professional and...

Students must wear masks when school reopens, committee says

All students and staff — regardless of vaccination status — in Dartmouth’s public schools will be required to wear masks when class begins Sept. 1, School Committee members agreed Tuesday. One year to the day after deciding that the 2020-21 school...

Prepare for upcoming school year with virtual presentation

The Friends of the Dartmouth Libraries will be hosting a virtual presentation to prepare children for the upcoming school year amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The presentation will be held on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Dartmouth Youth...

Select Board urges public input on Indian logo debate

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Before any decision is made on the controversial Dartmouth High Indian logo, town officials would like to see a process more inclusive of community sentiments. At an Aug. 9 meeting, the Select Board unanimously voted to send a letter to the School...

Eight local students receive Community Foundation scholarships

Seven students from Dartmouth High School and one student from Bishop Stang High School were among the scholarship recipients from the SouthCoast Community Foundation at a July 28 award ceremony. “Scholarship season is always a highlight for the...

Fuller named permanent chancellor at UMass Dartmouth

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After months of searching, UMass Dartmouth’s interim chancellor Dr. Mark Fuller was tapped to permanently head the school. UMass Board of Trustees announced his appointment at a meeting Monday. Fuller has served as interim chancellor since replacing...

New assistant principal appointed at Bishop Stang

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Bishop Stang High School has a new assistant principal of academics for the upcoming school year. The Catholic school announced Aug. 6 that Marion resident Dan Dias will take over the role. “I am both humbled and honored to accept the position of...

Church community supplies students with classroom items

As UMass Dartmouth students prepare to return to school, the community at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is working to ensure everyone has the supplies they need. The church is coordinating a school supply drive for Arnie's Cupboard, the food pantry...

Mascot public meeting delayed due to Covid concerns

An open public forum for community members to discuss whether to retain or replace the Dartmouth High School Indian mascot will likely be postponed because of concerns about large gatherings as Covid cases increase, School Committee Chair Dr...

Children hone skills, make Friends at academy summer camp

Whether exploring nature, building rockets or riding in canoes, participants in the summer camps at Friends Academy displayed a “really positive energy’’ this year, said Susan Yao, director of summer programs at the academy. “They were happy to be...

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