Lenox educator Michael Knybel named Hull High principal; assumes role July 1
The current middle and high school principal in the Berkshire County town of Lenox has been named the next principal…
The current middle and high school principal in the Berkshire County town of Lenox has been named the next principal…
Wellspring is proud to announce that 14 students will graduate from the Oddleifson Learning Program this year. Included in the…
It’s been a good year. When you read this column, the school year will be over. Students from all three…
In the open air and surrounded by saltwater, graduates listened to inspiring speakers talk about their accomplishments and futures before…
The two final candidates for the Hull High School principal position are being interviewed this week, and a decision is…
After three COVID-filled years, a restrictionless prom was the perfect way to close out senior year. At Granite Links in…
By Alan McCall Tourney time for lacrosse teams: The Hull High School boys and girls varsity lacrosse teams will extend…
As Hull High School’s principal and assistant principal prepare to move on, they have a few lessons to share. Principal…
Following the resignation of Hull High School Principal Nicole Nosek and Assistant Principal Dan Mastrogiacomo, both effective at the end…
Seniors High Honors: Madelyn Brooks, Parry Harper, Ryan Healey, Troy Healey, Alexis Her, Erica McGowan, Timothy O’Hayre Honors: Petra Bechtold,…
After eight months of as normal a school year as we’ve had in years, Hull schools are nearing the finish…
Hull High Student Government is in action again – this time, members are selling candy-filled eggs to parents and teachers…
A group of about 25 to 30 students gathered across the street from Hull High School before school on Friday,…
Last Friday, Hull students gathered in the cafeteria to dance the night away during a semiformal designed to raise spirits…
Students at the Jacobs Elementary School achieved a schoolwide goal of 200,000 minutes of reading and 1,000 acts of kindness…
After two and a half years without live performances, Hull High School’s band is back! On the 24, they performed…
March can be a difficult month in school. No breaks, few early releases, and the vague feeling that winter should…
Seniors High Honors: Parry Harper, Troy Healey, Alexis Her, Erica McGowan, Timothy O’Hayre Honors: Petra Bechtold, Evan Burke, Devin Capone,…
After a school committee vote Feb. 15, all Hull schools will be officially mask-optional starting Feb. 28. The widely supported…
In an effort to boost student spirits leading up to Valentine’s Day, student government is selling “Candy Grams” for students…
After a record-high blizzard and a similarly high COVID spike, Hull schools are officially halfway done with the year. Report…
After record-high rates of COVID-19 cases in Hull Public Schools, the numbers are ticking back down as Hull makes plans…
In a Jan. 18 memorandum to Massachusetts school superintendents and other school officials from state Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley, thanking…
Hull Integrated Preschool at the Jacobs School will offer one full-day preschool class beginning this fall. The class will be…
The “Best Educational Use of Schools” survey offers a valuable opportunity for all stakeholders in the issue of school consolidation…
Two Hull High School varsity football players have been honored for their feats on the field this past fall. Junior…
Student members of the Hull High School PRISM group reported to the School Committee this week on the success of…
In-school mask mandate to remain During a COVID-19 update, Supt. of Schools Judith Kuehn praised the efforts of the three…
COVID-19 is on the rise again, and it has come for our students. Yet despite the sense of chaos, Hull…
For those interested in participating in a community stakeholder survey related to the “Best Educational Use of School Facilities” study,…
In preparation for a decennial visit by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Hull High School has updated…
Last year at this time, our student leaders reflected on the coming of 2021, hoping we would be able to…
For the past three weeks, students at Hull High School have been taping paper, tying ribbon, and tricking out their…
Last week, Hull High School student leaders shared what they were thankful for leading up to Thanksgiving. During that week…
The School Committee this week appointed current Hull Public Schools staff member Diane M. Saniuk as school business manager to…
With all the excitement and revelry surrounding the Hull High School football team playing at Gillette Stadium next week, another…
It’s now down to two teams, and the Hull Pirates are one of them. Hull pulled away from a tough…
Thanksgiving is a happy time for students. A few days off from school; more turkey than the human body should…
COVID-19 doomed performances last year After a year without a full production, Hull High School Theatre Arts is back with…
Over the past week Hull High School has been observing Solidarity Week, which is devoted to recognizing marginalized groups and…
Hull High School’s own National Honor Society inducted 22 new members last Wednesday, only a few weeks before the chapter’s…
The Hull High School girls’ varsity soccer team has punched its ticket to the post-season for the fifth straight season,…
State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley this week extended the statewide public schools mask mandate for a second time – through…
The public school mask mandate issued by state Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley in August has been extended until Nov. 1,…
Pandemic’s impact on learning cited; ‘high expectations’ urged for ’21-’22 School administrators and School Committee members are overall disappointed with…
Three Hull High seniors were recognized for their achievement at Monday’s school committee meeting. Pictured here, from left, are Stella…
Homecoming is a classic high school tradition. This year Hull High School brought it back after a year without, because…
Hull High School students have been participating in a Spirit Week this past week, dressing up to match themes to…
The Ad Hoc Best Educational Use of Facilities Committee, tasked with considering and exploring potential consolidation among the town’s elementary,…
The Hull High School year has begun, and its many associated clubs and extracurricular activities are underway. Some clubs have…
The Hull High School football team scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to rally past Cardinal Spellman 28-18 on Friday night in…
The first football game of the year is a time-honored tradition to attend, and students were glad to be back…
The transition between schools is always challenging, but this year’s new sixth-graders and freshmen seem to be taking it in…
The goal of a three-year “Raising Multicultural Kids” program, set to launch at the Jacobs School, is to foster racial…
At the first School Committee meeting of the new school year, the focus was on rebuilding a sense of community…
Submitted by Lindsey Buchleitner In the fall of 2018, the third-grade students of the Jacobs School harvested 55 pounds of…
While the weather may have been gloomy for the first day of school, students and staff members certainly were not.…
Pirates teams ready for season with high hopes – and true grid Varsity football coach Mike O’Donnell enters his fifth…
Middle, high schools could lift order on Oct. 1 if 80% vaccination rate met By Carol Britton Meyer The Hull…
As fall sports teams began preparation for their season to begin in two short weeks, the boys (and girls) of…
Justin Baxter is a Hull resident. He is joining the Memorial School staff as a special education teacher. He received…
A five-game losing streak was not the way the Hull eighth-grade boys’ basketball team wanted to enter the playoffs. The…
Investigator alleged communication with former student was inappropriate Former Hull School Superintendent Michael Devine, whose contract was terminated in April…
School Superintendent Judith Kuehn and Hull High School Principal Nicole Nosek announced this week that two new co-directors, who happen…
The spring sports season has begun its annual fade into summer. And before we look forward to the traditional summer…
The Hull High School class of 2021 capped an unusual year with a traditional celebration – the senior prom. On…
The Hull High School Boosters presented their annual athletic awards last week to deserving student-athletes this past academic year. The…
By the time this column is published, the halls of the high school, middle school, and elementary school will be…
Third-grade students at the Lillian M. Jacobs Elementary School concluded a Battle of the Books competition this week, ending a…
On Saturday, June 5, the Hull High School class of 2021 graduated – unmasked, on a brand-new turf field, and…
Hull High held a Pride celebration on Wednesday, with many staff and students wearing their colors to celebrate PRIDE. The…
With the ocean and a new turf field as backdrop, their friends and family in the audience, 68 students of…
New guidance from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or DESE, for the 2021-22 school year means next year…
Hull students have been wearing masks inside and out since they came back to school in September. A school committee…
Although Gov. Charlie Baker announced recently that given the low rate of outdoor transmission of COVID-19, students are no longer…
Hull resident Deborah McCarthy, now in her 25th year as a fifth-grade teacher at Jacobs Elementary School, expressed her continuing…
The seniors’ last week of high school is a momentous occasion, and this year it’s punctuated by a spirit week…
Aiden Robey’s single in the bottom of the eighth inning plated John Reynolds with the winning run and capped a…
Seniors High Honors: Katie Clifford, Maeve Donohue, Robert Hunter, Jacob Rickard, Jordan Rinaldi, Victoria Rosado, Melissa Rymaszewski Honors: Colin Bouchard,…
The Hull Garden Club announces that the recipient of its 2021 Scholarship Award is Jenna Canavan, a Hull High School…
A consultants’ report suggests that, due to declining enrollment, not all of Hull’s school facilities are being put to their…
The combined Hull-Cohasset girls’ outdoor track team has run away with its first two meets in convincing fashion. H-C improved…
Advanced placement exams started at Hull High School this week, offering a semblance of normalcy in a year that has…
By Ian Barkon Hull and the online community will hit the books when students from the Hull Public School Theatre…
GRADE 6 – HIGH HONORS: Bruno Andrews-Mundo, Ava Beaumier, Audie Bernard, Meghan Duran, Pixiana Dyer, Christopher Earner, Libby Harper, Grace…
All students at Hull High School returned to school five days a week starting Monday, April 26, and guidance counselors…
A public information campaign is being planned to share with school staff members, parents, and others in the community the…
Hull schools have implemented a heavy cleaning and disinfection routine since the beginning of the school year. A recent update…
It took a while to confirm the opponent, but when the dust settled it was another convincing win for the…
Pool testing for the coronavirus at Hull High School has proven to be a success so far, with more students…
• DAR Good Citizens Award Celebrates local students. The Col. Thomas Lothrop Old Colony Chapter of DAR honored four exceptional…
Consultants lead toward mixed-use plan Members of the Massachusetts Associations of Regional Schools Consulting Group team presented to the Board…
With the news that Pfizer’s vaccine is 100 percent effective in 12- to 15-year-old children, and the vaccine already approved…
In a year when everything has changed, students still have a tried and tested course option VHS, or Virtual High…
It was the seniors’ last home game. So, the Hull Pirates made it a memorable one. Led by another suffocating…
Members of Hull High School student government and the student group PRISM attended the 2021 Connections Conference for the first…
Students at the Lillian M. Jacobs Elementary School participated in the school’s 18th annual Read-a-thon event recently and raised a…
A collaborative effort between the Manet Community Health Center in Hull and the Hull Public Schools has meant that about…
There is a cruelty in sports that, at times, the better team does not win the game. The Hull High…
Scholastic aptitude testing, or SAT, started last weekend, and Hull High School guidance counselors as well as a student leader…
The School Committee, after a lengthy discussion, agreed this week to back a resolution in favor of exempting students across…
During this very week last year, the unimaginable decision was made to cancel the NCAA men’s basketball (and women’s) basketball…
Hull High School’s ninth-graders returned to in-person classes on Monday, and, despite some minor challenges, freshman class president Ruby Schultz…
COVID-19 a factor in the findings Hull High School received a passing grade on this year’s Massachusetts Department of Elementary…
School Superintendent Judith Kuehn and the school nurses reported at this week’s meeting of the School Committee that the first…
When Lucas Patenaude announced recently that he will not be running for another term on the School Committee, he described…
Hull schools set impressive record when it comes to COVID-19 control It’s easy to think of a coronavirus case in…
At the college level, spring football is commonplace, a time when teams fine-tune their rosters in preparation for the real…
Students at the Lillian M. Jacobs Elementary School celebrated their 100th day in school this past Tuesday. While the 100th-day…
A plan is in place to return all ninth-grade students at Hull High School to four days a week of…
School Committee member David Twombly this week urged that a study on the best educational use of the town’s school…
Hull Public Schools will be piloting COVID-19 pooled testing for grades eight and nine, with a targeted start date of…
Seniors High Honors: Kayla Chenette, Maeve Donohue, Bianca Foresta, Robert Hunter, John Meagher, Jacob Rickard, Victoria Rosado, Melissa Rymaszewski Honors:…
This is Maeve Donohue’s senior year at Hull High School, and what a year she has had, musically speaking. She…
GRADE 6 – HIGH HONORS: Ava Beaumier, Meghan Duran, Pixiana Dyer, Libby Harper, Grace Kiley, Jackson Nunes, Lilyan Nunes, Jacob…
It will look a bit different this season, but the starting gun will go off for the Hull High School…
The Feb. 11 ceremony was much smaller than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic, and only those necessary to the…
Nearly six months ago, the Hull School Committee faced a difficult choice: whether or not to start the year in…
The Hull School Committee has implemented a phased plan to bring back more students for in-person learning four days a…
Hull Public Schools administrators are moving forward with plans to slowly but steadily increase in-person learning for middle school and…
Grades for the first semester at Hull High School close Friday, and although HHS presidents think the first half of the…
We are halfway through what would have been the high school and youth sports winter season. At this time, I…
After multiple students tested positive for the coronavirus, Hull High School reverted to fully remote learning for two weeks. Before…
A new coronavirus testing site at the Hull Manet Community Health Center is now offering tests for members of the…
Service agency joins forces with HPS Wellspring Multi-Service Center is partnering with the Hull Public Schools to start a year-round…
Project Humanitarian Involvement, or PHI, a Hull High School student club, continues the work of helping those in need despite…
Synchronous learning, which involves placing remote students on a video call, learning the same lesson at the same time as…
Space is still available at Wellspring Multi-Service Center’s Adult Learning Program for the upcoming winter/spring semester, which starts in February.…
Hull High School went to a fully remote model on Wednesday after seven positive student coronavirus cases were reported. School…
Seniors – High Honors: Maeve Donohue, John Meagher, Jacob Rickard, Victoria Rosado, Melissa Rymaszewski. Honors: Hayden Anastos, Siobhan Burke, Jenna…
Controversy continues to swirl as School Com backs superintendent By a 4-1 vote earlier this week, the School Committee upheld School…
Each year it is a challenge for me to select the top 10 sports stories of the year. This year…
The end of the year usually marks a time for change, soon-to-be-broken resolutions, and hopes for the coming 12 months.…
So far in this most unusual school year, faculty members at Hull High School have given their all to boost…
Three of Hull High School’s music students recently auditioned, virtually, for the Southeastern District Senior Music Festival. After about a…
The Hull High School chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS) deserves honors for having discovered a multitude of ways…
The figurative curtain goes up this weekend on the Hull Theatre Arts Program’s virtual presentation of “A Christmas Carol: A…
School Com punts, delays final decision School Superintendent Judith Kuehn’s decision to cancel winter sports, announced at Monday’s remote School…
Despite community support and a petition filed by Hull High School senior class president Ben Olivieri, winter sports are currently on…
The Hull High School Theatre Arts students will be streaming a broadcast of their version of Philip Grecian’s “A Christmas…
GRADE 6 – HIGH HONORS: Pixiana Dyer, Libby Harper, Lilyan Nunes, Jacob Parks, Nathaniel Tiani; HONORS: Bruno Andrews-Mundo, Ava Beaumier,…
The area high school and youth winter sports season will officially begin a week from Monday. However, for now the…
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Hull High School still had a homecoming – of sorts. Although the traditional homecoming dance and…
While closing Hull Public Schools for two weeks was the right decision at the time, Acting School Superintendent Judith Kuehn…
Memorial Middle School teachers and administrators recently selected eighth-grader Connor Hipp to serve as Hull’s 2020 Project 351 ambassador to…
Hull Kid has long been a label put on a Hull High School student-athlete who illustrates the passion, motivation, talent,…
From congratulating Hull students who achieved perfect scaled MCAS scores and hearing budget presentations to listening to updates on the…
An empty bullet shell casing discovered by a school janitor prompted a brief lockdown of Hull’s Memorial Middle School on…