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She’s in the driver’s seat and the kids love it
DRACUT — From the driver’s seat of the school bus she’s driven here for nearly a half a century now, Ginger Caggiano has been a dutiful, gasoline-powered lesson in longevity,
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School Bus Companies, And Drivers, Face COVID’s Financial Fallout
School bus driver Maureen McAlear loves her job, but it’s not what it used to be. Hybrid school schedules and few after school activities mean drivers are working — and
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Haverhill Schools, NRT Outline Safety Steps as School Buses Begin Rolling this Term
School buses will soon be rolling through Haverhill. Yesterday, the school administration published the bus routes for this year. School Assistant Superintendent Michael Pfifferling reminded the School Committee last night that
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On school buses this fall: masks, open windows, and distanced seat assignments
Students will have to don face coverings to board school buses this fall, but they will each get an entire seat to themselves to maintain social distancing, under new state
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Pentucket community members deliver signs to graduates
Superintendent Justin Bartholomew and Pentucket High School Principal Jonathan Seymour recently shared that administrators, volunteer parents, first responders and community members from Groveland, Merrimac and West Newbury came together to
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Food distribution for Winchendon students to continue as long as needed
Superintendent of Schools Joan Landers said that the people and buses from First Student Inc. and Van Pool Transportation have been wonderful as the weeks have gone by during the