Sheffield — The Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board will hold a community meeting at the Sheffield Senior Center on Saturday, January 21 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The town’s Senior Center is located at 25 Cook Road.
The meeting is an educational visioning session, according to Project Manager Jake Eberwein who spoke about the upcoming meeting during the Planning Board’s regular meeting on January 5. “It’s an open call to folks in the community,” Eberwein said. “It could be people who haven’t necessarily been directly involved in the process, but want to weigh in on that visioning.” Eberwein said that parents, students, and elected officials are all welcome at the meeting.
“The idea is to convene a group of people to start to reflect [on the potential merger],” he said. “Some of the themes and ideas that our consultants are curating are based on their interactions with the two schools. The consultants have done a couple of site visits with various stakeholders and they have started to refine a sense of priorities and vision for educational programming in a merged school district.”
Eberwein added that the meeting would include an overview of the potential merger of the Southern Berkshire Regional School and Berkshire Hills Regional School Districts.
Register for the meeting here.
