TIMES
SOUTHERN
Marlboro
super gets
5-year pact
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Vol. 13, No 29
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JULY 20 - 26, 2016
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Band of brothers
Iron Riders host 16th annual fundraiser
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week the Marlboro School board
unanimously approved a 5-year contract
with Superintendent Michael Brooks that
will end on June 30, 2021. The board
has the option “to renew or extend the
contract annually for an additional year
or years subject to agreement on terms
with the Superintendent.”
Some of the key provisions of Brooks’
contract state
that he will
administer and
supervise the
district within
the parameters
set by the school
board,
work
c o o p e r a t ive l y
with
the
school
board
to
establish
annual
goals
and objectives,
manage
the
district’s
Michael Brooks
a c t i v i t i e s
“aggressively
and
imaginatively”
in order to improve the quality of the
district through initiatives and suggest
revisions and make recommendations
and on curriculum so that policies and
procedures of the school board can be
implemented.
Brooks is to keep the school
board abreast of matters relating to
discipline, personnel relations, finances
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Motorcycles were neatly lined up at the event.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Every summer for the past 16 years,
a small band of motorcycle brothers
called the Iron Riders descend on the
town park in Milton to host fundraisers
to help families whose young ones
are facing significant medical issues.
This year the club decided that the
money they raised would go to the St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Foundation.
Club President and Charter Member
Vinnie Loretta said the fundraisers
began out of a desire to help one of
their own, Steve Vaccaro, who was
ill with diabetes and needed a kidney
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transplant. Doctors later determined
that the severity of Vacarro’s illness
prevented him from being a candidate
for the transplant. Before he passed
away, he let it be known to the club that
they should help kids who were ill.
Loretta said each year they raise
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