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Parents To Meet With Bishop On School Merger Plan

Catholic Communications, Diocese of Springfield

More details are expected Monday on plans to build a new regional Catholic high school in western Massachusetts.

Springfield Bishop Mitchell Rozanski  is meeting with parents to discuss the proposed merger of Cathedral High School and Holyoke Catholic High School.  Rozanski previously met with the students.

"They had very very insightful questions. I was very proud that in both schools there were questions  of concerns for the teachers," Rozanski said.

A spokesman for the diocese said there will be an update on the sites that are being considered for the new school, but no final announcement. 

A vocal group of Cathedral alumnae and Springfield officials want the new school built on the site where Cathedral was destroyed by a tornado four years ago.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.