Parents and residents are invited to meet both when they are interviewed by the School Committee.
GRANBY – The search for a new principal for East Meadow Elementary School has been narrowed to two finalists, according to Granby Superintendent Isabelina Rodriguez.
They are Louis Tirsch, assistant principal at Chestnut Accelerated Middle School in Springfield, and Rita Detweiler, principal of Gill Elementary School in the Gill-Montague School District.
Parents and other members of the community are invited to meet both when they are interviewed by the School Committee on May 17 at East Meadow Elementary School.
Tirsch will be interviewed at 6 p.m. and Detweiler at 7 p.m.
The new principal will replace James Pietras, who has been at East Meadow for 38 years and is beloved by generations of schoolchildren in Granby.
Pietras is retiring, but has said he will remain in place until August to ease the transition of the new principal.
Rodriguez said her search committee received 18 applications from a “very strong pool of certified candidates.”
Working through the April vacation, the committee narrowed the group down to eight and interviewed them over the past two weeks.