Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, March 23
- Council on Aging Board, 8 a.m., Town Hall
- Nauset Regional High School modular tour, 4 p.m., Nauset High parking lot
Monday, March 27
- Visitors Tourism and Services Board, 3:30 p.m., Town Hall
Tuesday, March 28
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 29
- Finance Committee, 5 p.m., Town Hall
- T-Time Development Committee, 5 p.m., Town Hall
Thursday, March 30
- Board of Health, 3 p.m., Town Hall
- Nauset Regional High School modular tour, 4 p.m. Nauset High parking lot
Conversation Starter
Meet the Candidates
The Nauset Regional Middle School Principal Search Committee is hosting a community gathering to meet the principal finalists on Thursday, March 23 from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. at the middle-school library.
“The committee will utilize feedback gained during these visits to determine next steps in the search process,” according to an announcement from Joanna Hughes, the human resources director for Nauset Schools.
The new principal’s job will begin July 1, Hughes stated.
Hughes said she would release the finalists’ names and resumes after the Independent’s deadline, on Wednesday, March 22. She did not, however, reveal where this information would be posted. Parents usually are informed of school news by email.
Interim Principal Beth Deneen is at the helm this school year. The previous principal, Keith Kenyon, was forced to resign in May. He took a buyout of $135,000 from Nauset administrators, who wanted to separate from him after he was named in a lawsuit along with several other former supervisors of Aaron Thomas, a basketball coach at North Kingstown (R.I.) High School. Thomas was charged in 2022 with second-degree sexual assault and second-degree child molestation. He is accused of administering bogus “fat tests” on students for 20 years.
Kenyon left North Kingstown as athletic director in 2009. It was not until 2017 that administrators learned of Thomas’s fat tests from accounts by former students, according to an independent investigation commissioned by the North Kingstown School District. —K.C. Myers
