Great Job Panthers

BUCKLAND — When Pioneer Valley Regional School needed someone to turn to on Friday night, it looked toward its star running back, and junior Bryce Dobosz responded.
After fumbling three times earlier in the game, Dobosz showed why he has become one of the most feared backs in Franklin County, scoring a pair of second-half touchdowns to save Pioneer's playoff hopes and lead the Panthers to a 24-14 win over Mohawk Trail Regional High School at Pollard Field.
The victory keeps Pioneer’s hopes for the fourth and final playoff spot in the WMass Division IV-A field alive. With Lee High School's 33-7 win over McCann Technical High School on Friday night, the Wildcats became playoff-eligible at 4-4, and it's all going to come down to the Walker System rating for both teams. Pioneer is 5-2 overall, but plays in a weaker division, so Lee's strength of schedule is higher. It is believed — but not confirmed — that Lee's rating could take a hit if Ware High School beats Palmer High School this afternoon in Ware, and that might give Pioneer just enough of an edge to become the third team out of the Tri-County League to qualify.
Both Pioneer and Mohawk entered Friday's game in position to possibly qualify for the postseason, and for a while, it looked like neither team was going to grab the bull by the horns. The two squads combined to put the ball on the ground 10 times. Six of those fumbles wound up in the hands of the defense, with Mohawk giving the ball away four times.
Pioneer managed to take control of the game in the second half with 16 unanswered points, after it went into the break trailing 14-8 as Mohawk scored a go-ahead touchdown with 4.4 seconds left in the first half. Pioneer did cough up the ball on the opening drive of the second half, but the Panthers’ defense held tough and forced a Mohawk punt that put the Pioneer offense to work at the Warriors' 49.

At that point, Dobosz took over. Led by a line that was opening up holes, and fullbacks Tristan Dresser and Terrell Hicks leading the way, Dobosz took every carry of a 10-play, 49-yard drive. He punched in the game-tying touchdown on a 8-yard run with 8 minutes, 26 seconds left in the fourth quarter that was sprung by a vicious block by Dresser. Digging even deeper into his bag of tricks, Dobosz was then called upon to work out of the "Wildcat formation" on the two-point conversion (due to a brief injury to quarterback Alex Tyson). The conversion try was pushed back to the 8 on a false start, but Dobosz still managed to sweep to his right and find his way into the end zone to put Pioneer on top to stay at 16-14.
Mohawk was not done following the Dobosz score, and looked like it might come right back. Jonny Herbert took the ensuing kickoff at his own 26 and returned it 39 yards to the Pioneer 35, setting up the Warriors offense with great field position. But disaster struck for the fourth and final time on the first play of the drive, when Herbert fumbled on a dive play, giving the ball back to Pioneer with 8:09 to play. The Panthers put the nail in the coffin as they went on a 67-yard, 11-play scoring drive capped off by Dobosz's 6-yard run. Dobosz also ran in the two-pointer for a 24-14 lead with 2:38 left. Mohawk's final possession ended when the Warriors fumbled the snap on fourth down.

Dobosz finished with 185 yards on 37 carries to lead the Panthers. Dresser added 14 yards on four hauls, and Hicks added 12 on three carries. Tyson finished 4-of-8 passing for 48 yards.
Pioneer had a chance to open up an early lead as both of Mohawk's first two possessions ended with fumbles inside its own territory. Both times Pioneer was unable to crack the end zone, and the game remained scoreless through the first quarter. Mohawk ended the first quarter with its third possession of the game and was putting together the beginnings of the game's first scoring drive. In what could only be described as methodical, the Warriors began a 21-play, 75-yard drive with 4:43 left in the first quarter and ended when quarterback Kamron Hoff took the ball in from a yard out with 5:25 left in the second quarter. The drive took a whopping 10:18 off the clock, and when Herbert ran in the two-point conversion, saw the Warriors with a 8-0 lead.
Pioneer tied the game after Mohawk fumbled for the third time and set up the Panthers at the Warriors' 27. It took four plays for Dobosz to find the end zone from 5 yards out, and his conversion attempt was true with 1:36 left for a 8-8 tie. It looked like that would be how the teams would go into the break, but each squad began using its timeouts, and Mohawk was forced to punt to Pioneer, which took over at its own 12 with 31.5 seconds to go. With timeouts left, the Panthers decided to see what they could do. Pioneer wound up fumbling on the fourth play of the drive, and Mohawk set up at the Pioneer 16 with 9.8 seconds left. On the first play of the drive, Hoff hit Caleb Fitzgerald for a 16-yard touchdown pass to put Mohawk up 14-8 at the break.
“Give Mohawk a lot of credit, they played well and they had us confused blocking in the first half with what they were doing,” Worth said. “We weren’t in sync in that first half, and we just didn’t play well. They were beating us off the line of scrimmage that entire first half.”
Herbert finished with 81 yards on 22 carries on his Senior Night to lead Mohawk, while up-and-coming sophomore back Jordan Grenier continued to impress with 58 yards on nine carries.

PVRSD Committee - October 20, 2016

https://vimeo.com/188538951

35:13 Bacon speaks

39:00 watch closely



1:11:41 THE BUDGET
22  GRADUATING CLASS 2017  FROM
VERNON 

2 VERNON KIDS LEFT THIS YEAR ( PARENT REMOVED THEM )  SO AT THE END OF THIS YEAR YOU LOSE 24 .
THE 10 SHE CLAIMED  CAME FROM VERNON IS NOT ACTUAL EITHER .. IT WOULD NOW  BE 5  MAYBE 6.( 2013/2014 YEAR) SOME MOVED .
TALK TO VERNON RESIDENTS AND THEY WILL TELL YOU ITS NOT THE PLANT CLOSING THAT CAUSED THEM NOT TO SEND THEM TO PVRS.

WINCHESTER WAS VERY AGAINST  PVRS DUE TO  2015/2016 FIASCO WITH MILLER.THEY ARE VERY HAPPY HOWEVER WITH MIKE DUPREY AND HOW THE KIDS ARE SOARING .SORRY IF FACTS HURT.( I know a couple on board)

ITS NOT PVRS TEACHERS,DON'T BLAME THEM. IT WAS WHAT YOU TOOK AWAY THAT ALOT OF KIDS AND PARENTS FIND DISPLEASING TOWARDS PVRS, AND THE SC NOT PROTECTING TEACHERS OR STUDENTS.VERY SOURING .

KIDS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE NEW PRINCIPAL AND  REALLY NOT HAPPY WITH MILLER AND MILLER STATING THEY ARE HAPPY IS A LIE . TALK TO STUDENTS
( students however love vp) 

ALSO AGAIN  WHERE IS OUR PAW PRINTS?

THE HARD LOOK IS ADMINISTRATION IS BEING OVER PAID .

FIRST time Principal - 105,000.00
FIRST TIME  Asst Principal salary  - 137,362.00
Superintendent -141,000.00
Asst Superintendent - 100,000.00
Admin Asst to Superintendent - 46,075.00
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6az_Rkk2vEcY0p2Y2FIbFZHYVE/view

Pioneer school committee violates regional agreement

Here is our chances to move people into position to help the schools and teachers . Now is our time to get involved . Does anyone know what happen to this so called committee that was suppose to be working  on our behalf?

NORTHFIELD — Due to a mix-up in the election cycle, Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s committee violated the regional agreement its member towns entered into in 1991.
The regional agreement is a document created by the four Pioneer towns — Leyden, Warwick, Bernardston and Northfield — outlining the rules under which the towns will operate by joining the school district together.
“It’s sitting down and saying these are all the things we want to happen in our school district,” Superintendent Ruth Miller explained, adding that all regional school districts have such an agreement.
Under the rules of the agreement, in a given election cycle, two towns will have two members up for election and the other two towns will have one. The towns rotate so that in one election year, Northfield, for example, will have two seats to fill and during the next election cycle will have one.
Under this rotation, in 2016 Northfield and Warwick should have two positions to fill and Leyden and Bernardston should have one. Northfield, Warwick and Leyden have followed the correct rotation. In the case of Bernardston, two members are up for election instead of one, Jim Bell and Debra Gilbert.

“The whole point (of the rotation) is so you don’t have the entire school committee turn over at the same time,” Miller said. “It was pretty smart of whoever wrote (the agreement).”
The superintendent’s office is responsible for tracking the election cycle. Miller said she looked into where the cycle went wrong after the error was brought to her attention by Northfield Finance Committee Chairwoman Lois Stearns.
“In the past, there have been seats that have been empty that were filled mid-cycle,” Miller explained. “It gets a little messy.”
Under the agreement, if a member should resign, the position will be filled by appointment of the moderator of the member town in which the vacancy occurs, and that person will serve only until the next district election. Miller said two different members resigned before completing their term and were replaced by appointment.
“Right in the middle of all that coming and going, things got very complicated,” Miller said. Gilbert’s term, then, is not in fact up until 2018.
The plan to remedy the situation, Miller said, is to have Gilbert continue her term until 2018. Because each Bernardston ballot asks voters to elect two committee members, and no one is running in opposition of Gilbert or Bell, the error does not affect the 2016 election results.
“Because nobody’s running against them, it’s working out OK,” Miller said. “There’s no impact on moving the ballots forward as they are.”
Miller said the mistake is “certainly never going to happen again here.”
“It was a fluke,” she said.
Miller claimed she contacted the Department of Education, which oversees regional agreements, and the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, who assured her there is no consequence for the error.
“It’s a local issue,” said Christine Lynch, a consultant with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, who oversees regional agreements. “This appears to be a condition that was agreed upon by the members that drafted the agreement. It should be worked out amongst the towns.”
Moving forward, Bernardston will have two seats to fill in 2018, fixing the rotation. Northfield, Leyden and Warwick will continue their correct rotation.
Committee Chairwoman Patricia Shearer and Robin L’Etoile are up for re-election in Northfield, and Northfield Police Chief Robert Leighton is also running for one of the two seats. Sharon Fontaine is up for re-election in Leyden, with no competition. David Young and David Shoemaker are up for re-election in Warwick, with Charles Lisowski also running for one of the two seats.




Again watch the budget  thats coming up and remember next year you lose ALOT of school choice funding  the largest class graduates 2017. As it stands now Vernon is walking away from PVRS and some have already removed kids and ZERO came this year from the 6th / grade class. You will have alot of money to make up that will not be on the books next year . I would suggest Administration starts cutting pay not teachers or programs. This will hurt us next year if we don't. 

Pioneer football is traveling to Mohawk

 A message from Deanna Baker ( Boys football mom)

Everyone know what day it is. That's right pioneer football is traveling to Mohawk. Kick off is at 7:00. Our coaches and boys have been practicing all week to get ready for this game. This win could put us in the play offs. If you don't have any plans come with us to help cheer our boys to a victory. What better way to spend a evening than watching our boys under the lights. Bleed black shine gold!!