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Games, prizes, candy at annual resource and craft fair

Harrison Camaro, 5, dips into the candy at the Sisters of Solace table. Photos by: Kate Robinson
The Dartmouth High School gym was packed on Sunday with families and local vendors for the seventh annual Special Education Parent Advisory Council Resource and Craft Fair. Along with shopping for handmade goods, guests took part in a number of...

UMass Law to hold fall open house

UMass Law School has announced that it will be holding a fall open house on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:30 p.m. at its 333 Faunce Corner Road location. The open house will allow prospective law students to learn about UMass Law's full-time, part-time,...
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UMass Dartmouth student voting doubled in 2018 election

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth students more than doubled their participation in the 2018 mid-term elections compared to the 2014 mid-term. This is according to a recent Tufts University study that also showed a national trend of increased...

Bishop Stang students rock for food drive donations

Bishop Stang High School’s National Honor Society is on a roll with its Rock-A-Thon donation drive. Students alternated rocking in rocking chairs for two days from September 20 to 21, as people stopped by to drop off food to benefit area food...

Simulator gives students hands-on experience in driving distracted

Dartmouth High students are learning about the dangers of distracted driving by getting behind the wheel virtually and seeing firsthand what happens when they take their eyes off the road. From October 7 to 11, Distractology's mobile classroom was...

Educators protest low wages, high health care costs at School Committee meeting

Protesters at the School Committee meeting on Monday evening asking for better wages for teachers and support staff. Photos by: Kate Robinson
Teachers and school staff who have been working without a contract since the end of August brought their frustrations with educators' pay and health care costs directly to the School Committee. At the Committee’s October 7 meeting, nearly 200...

Hopes run high at sophomore class 5K fundraiser

Wesley Lima, class co-advisor, with class officers Katherine Charrier, Molly Rioux, Charles Fairfax, Emma Tetrault, and co-advisor Jessica Lassey. Photo courtesy: Jessica Lassey
The Dartmouth High Class of 2022 is already dreaming big about Senior Week. This year’s sophomores are hoping to rent out the Spirit of Boston for a cruise of Boston Harbor for their senior prom. And on Sunday morning, they held a 5K fundraiser at...

Making rainbows at second annual Quinn Color Run

Celebrating after the Color Run. Photos by: Kate Robinson
Smiles, laughter, sunshine, and colors were everywhere at Quinn School’s second annual Color Run on Saturday morning as over 600 people turned out for the event. The PTO fundraiser included two bounce houses and obstacle courses, a raffle, a DJ,...

Dartmouth High marching band scares up an award-winning performance at home show

The Dartmouth High School marching band and color guard gave the audience and judges quite the fright with a spooky, supernatural-themed performance at its Home Show on September 28. The bright sun was out during the annual Home Show at Memorial...

Dartmouth Middle School climate talks get students thinking about issues, solutions

Dartmouth middle schoolers are learning about the realities of climate change, and what they can do to stop it at a series of lunchtime lectures. From Monday to Friday, middle school students brought their lunches to the library to learn about...

MCAS results show growth and improvement at most grade levels

MCAS test results are in, and Dartmouth school officials are pleased with how students performed on the ever-changing state assessment system. On September 24, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released results for the 2019...

Sister Act: Volleyball coaches keep it in the family

Sisters Rachel and Jessica Lassey, the Dartmouth High School Girls’ Varsity and Junior Varsity coaches, respectively. Photo by: Kate Robinson
Jessica and Rachel Lassey aren’t your typical Dartmouth siblings. They both went to Dartmouth High school, and unlike most, they both came back years later to do the same thing: Coach volleyball. Although she’s eighteen months younger, Rachel is the...

Student-produced safety video shows what to do during an active shooter threat

At Dartmouth schools, students are learning what to do in an emergency with a new video produced by their peers. Dartmouth High’s video production program has published a ten-minute school safety video featuring instructions and demonstrations of...

Band Home Show rescheduled due to EEE concerns

The Dartmouth High School Marching Band’s annual Home Show is the latest outdoor event to be hit with Eastern equine encephalitis concerns. The home show, which was originally scheduled for September 28 at 6 p.m., will now be held at 3 p.m. on the...

Teachers hit the volleyball court to teach good sportsmanship

Quinn Elementary School teachers and staff stepped out of their classrooms and onto the blacktop for a friendly game of volleyball for an important lesson in manners and behavior. The healthy competition on September 9 is an annual tradition at...

UMass Dartmouth professor awarded grant for historical climate change project

UMass Dartmouth Professor of History Dr. Timothy Walker and climate scientist Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute received $110,000 from the National Science Foundation to continue their research project that involves the...

Education Foundation awards grants to Dartmouth teachers

Teachers, Dartmouth Education Foundation members, and members of the Dartmouth High robotics team after the awards. Photo by: Kate Robinson
Flexible seating, a sensory path, robotics equipment, and a hydroponic system were among the classroom items funded with grants awarded by the Dartmouth Education Foundation at a ceremony in the high school media center on September 4. This year the...

UMass Dartmouth researchers receive $2.1M National Science Foundation grant

UMass Dartmouth researchers have been awarded a $2,116,315 grant by the National Science Foundation to help elementary school teachers integrate problem-solving skills common for computer programming into their math and science classes. “The future...

Dartmouth kids go back to school

Incoming first grader Lauren Mattos is welcomed to the Potter School by librarian Amy Jasmine. Photos by: Kate Robinson
Kids all over town climbed into buses and headed back to school on the morning of August 28 for the first day of the 2019-2020 school year. Check out our gallery of photos from the day!

UMass Dartmouth fall move-in schedule

UMass Dartmouth students will return to campus this coming weekend as classes are set to start on September 4. Move-in activities will begin on September 1, when the university and town's newest residents — the Class of 2023 — make the move to the...

Teachers, administrators getting ready for new school year

From big construction projects to new staff, Dartmouth schools are in the busy final week of preparation to welcome students back for the new school year on August 28. One major construction project has everyone talking: The first phase of the...

Football season kicks off at Dartmouth High’s first practices

Kids do jumping drills as coach Peter Rossi looks on. Photo by: Kate Robinson
Fifty kids ran drills on the field next to Dartmouth High on Friday morning — even though the start of school is still more than a week away. Coaches were holding the first practice of the season for the school’s football team, and plenty of kids...

Kids delve into design, programming at robotics workshop

Team Dark Humor (right) during the competition with a row of judges and referees watching. Photos by: Kate Robinson
What do you get when you give a roomful of kids a box of parts and a computer? Dartmouth High School’s summer robotics workshop set out to find the answer, with two one-week summer camps that ended in a robotics competition in the school’s...

Jersey Mike’s spreads the love to Dartmouth High

Dartmouth High School is getting a big boost thanks to the town’s newest sandwich shop. On August 12, the manager and owners of Jersey Mike’s presented Dartmouth High administrators with a $4,000 check, which the sandwich shop raised during its...

Class of 2023 gets ready for new school year at Dartmouth High orientation

The first day of school is two weeks away, but on August 13 nearly 70 current Dartmouth High students and the Class of 2023 settled into the school building for orientation. The incoming students gathered in the auditorium to meet their new...

Back to school is fast approaching. Have you registered?

The first day of school is August 28, and school officials are reminding parents to register if needed. Those who are new to the school system and who have not done so yet must register their children. The process can be completed online by visiting...

New playground taking shape at Quinn Elementary

Quinn Elementary School students will have a lot more fun at recess with a revamped blacktop playground when they return to school in the fall. Over the summer, a dedicated group of volunteers are transforming the currently bare blacktop into a...