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Hoosac Valley Names Valedictorian & Salutatorian for Class of 2024

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CHESHIRE, Mass. — Hoosac Valley High School has named Talia Rehill and David Scholz as the valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the class of 2024. 
 
They will speak at graduation ceremonies on Friday, June 7, at 6 p.m. in the high school gym. 
 
Rehill, daughter of Alisha Hampton of Cheshire, has been involved in numerous student activities during her four years at the school. This includes president of the Student Council, the Adams-Cheshire Leo Club, the class of 2024, and the National Honor Society. She also was a student representative on the Athletic Leadership Council and the Rainbow Alliance, a peer leader for World of Difference and pride mentor of the Boomerang Project. She also was editor of the yearbook and founder of the Hoosac Valley chapter of the 84th Movement, a non-smoking initiative. Also active in sports, she was captain of the varsity soccer and track and field teams. 
 
She participated in the 2023 production of "Annie," raised money for childhood cancer as a princess with the AYJ Fund, and built a social networking platform for individuals suffering from homelessness. Her awards include the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents Award, National Honor Society's Student of the Year for Massachusetts, the College Board Big Future's award for rural and small-town recognition, and the American Legion Auxiliary's Girls State Award. 
 
Rehill is the second Hoosac graduate to be admitted to Harvard University, where she plans to study government on the pre-law track. 
 
Scholz, the son of Erik and Laura Scholz of Adams, has been vice president of the class of 2024 and a member of the Student Council, a student representative on the Athletic Leadership Council, and a member of the National Honor Society. He also was a member of the concert and marching band.
 
Active in sports, he was first team All-Western Mass for soccer in his senior year and Nordic skiing as a junior. He was captain of the varsity soccer team and a member of the school's ski and track and field teams. He also was a volunteer coach with the Adams-Cheshire-Savoy Youth Soccer League and a member of the Downhill Ski Club since Grade 8. 
 
Scholz plans to attend the University of New Hampshire and major in electrical engineering. 

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Meeting Prompts Cheshire Treasurer to Retire

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
CHESHIRE, Mass. — The town has a temporary town treasurer after longtime Treasurer/Collector Rebecca Herzog abruptly retired last week. 
 
Ben Gelb, part-time treasurer for Rowe, was appointed on Friday during a special meeting of the Board of Selectmen
 
Herzog's departure after 28 years was in response to an executive session scheduled last Tuesday  "to consider the discipline or dismissal of a public employee and/or to hear complaints or charges brought against a public employee."
 
The board had three issues with her office: failure to payout accrued time and benefits for a laid-off employee, concerns over bonding documents for the new fire truck and for not responding in a timely manner to requests from the board and the town administrator. 
 
Herzog blamed vacation and sick time accrual mistakes on the town's software system and said she'd been following the schedule for the bonding process and didn't see anything unusual.
 
She proffered her retirement letter to the Selectmen after requesting an open session. 
 
"I am retiring effective tonight. I'm done. You know, what a shame that this is the way my career ends over a mistake," she said, adding she had assumed she was being fired. "It was just to humiliate me."
 
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