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2 weeks ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
The Rosie Robotics team from Agawam High School pose for a group photo at the 2025 FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas, in mid-April. This was the first time the team made it to the world competition since 2016. Reminder Publishing submitted photoAGAWAM — What a difference a year makes. In 2024, for the first time in nearly a decade, FIRST Team 839 — also known as Rosie Robotics — at Agawam High School competed at the FIRST Robotics Competition’s New England regional district championship.
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1 month ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
AGAWAM — There are layoffs and user fee increases for athletics coming to many school districts in the region for the 2025-26 school year. However, Agawam is not one of them. In Agawam’s proposed fiscal year 2026 school budget, there are no new user fees or increases and no layoffs of staff are planned. But the district does face some funding challenges.
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1 month ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick |West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Five West Springfield teachers are among more than 100 teachers in Western Massachusetts who will be recognized for their exceptional teaching skills. Elena Burke, Bryan Calderon, Julia Duffy, Karen Feeley-DeMaio and Amy Radon will receive a 2025 Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award from the Irene E. and George A. Davis Foundation and the Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation.
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2 months ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
Jake Terramagra (left) assists Liam Gleason in lining up a robot for launch at a state robotics championship competition. They are members of the Gear Heads, a First Lego League team in Agawam that built a small deep-sea mining robot. Reminder Publishing submitted photoAGAWAM — Using creative thinking and Lego technology, an Agawam robotics team engaged in research, problem-solving, coding and engineering to design and build a small robot to explore the layers of the ocean.
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2 months ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
After receiving their Academic Award A award at the March 25 School Committee meeting, AHS seniors gathered on stage at the AJHS for a group photo. About 55% of this year’s 228 seniors received the award for academic excellence. Reminder Publishing photo by Mike LydickAGAWAM — When Emily Gonzalez entered Agawam High School as a ninth grader, she made a commitment to herself that she would have a high GPA throughout her four years at the school.
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2 months ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
AGAWAM — Lauren Cousineau, Jonathan Hagopian, Kim Smith and John Viens got good — but unexpected — news in late February when they were selected for a 2025 Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award. They were among 60 Agawam teachers nominated for the award for their exceptional teaching skills. They will be formally recognized at an award dinner and banquet May 7 at The Log Cabin in Holyoke.
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2 months ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
Student facilitators at a recent AHS Student Summitt (left to right) Dawood Atanane, Andrew Bagley, Connor Glynn and Anthony Norman with AHS teachers Nikali Benkert and Mary Lynn Hunter. The summit brought together teachers and students to discuss creating a new education plan for AHS. Reminder Publishing photo by Mike LydickAGAWAM — In the summer of 2023, a group of Agawam High School teachers began working on an innovative project to improve teaching and learning at the school.
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2 months ago | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
Tim Considine cuts a sheet of pressure-treated plywood for the floor of the hay wagon trailer that’s the base for the Agawam St. Patrick’s Committee’s parade float. Holding the plywood are Todd Arslanian (left) and Frank Benson. Reminder Publishing photo by Mike LydickAGAWAM — The 2025 Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade will be the first time in five years that the Agawam St. Patrick’s Committee will have a completely new float rolling through the streets of the Paper City.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
Mike Marcotte, president of Marcotte Ford in Holyoke, holds the Salute to Dealers award he received in January. With him are (left to right) Sue Marcotte, his sister and the dealership’s marketing director, his aunt, Jeannie Filomeno, the dealership’s community relations manager, and Mike Filomeno, the dealership’s general manager. Reminder Publishing photo by Mike LydickHOLYOKE — Marcotte Ford’s motto, “We’ve got your back,” is more than just an advertising slogan for customers.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
thereminder.com | Mike Lydick
Mayor Christopher Johnon, pictured here in a file photo, told the School Committee that the district’s four elementary schools — James Clark, Clifford Granger, Benjamin Phelps and William P. Sapelli — need new roofs. Reminder Publishing file photosAGAWAM — While much attention has been focused on construction of a new building to replace the aging high school, other schools in the district also are facing infrastructure issues.
