By Owen Boss
Staff Writer
NORTHAMPTON — Area residents are invited to attend a forum focused on the impact bullying can have on local schoolchildren tonight at 7 in the sanctuary of First Churches on Main Street.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by WHMP, a local radio station, and the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and will feature addresses from a wide range of experts on the topic.
Scheduled speakers include Mike Flynn, a Southampton schoolteacher who was Massachusetts Teacher of the Year in 2008; state Rep. John W. Scibak, D-South Hadley, a member of the House Conference Committee overseeing the reconciliation of the two anti-bullying bills passed recently by House and Senate; John Fanton, a child psychologist at Baystate Health Systems; Chris Overtree, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; John Berkowitz, director of the Boys to Men Teen Mentoring Network of Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont; Lynne-Marie Wanamaker, trainer and self-defense expert; Northampton Police Chief Russell P. Sienkiewicz; and Greenfield Police Chief David Guilbault.
The meeting, which will allow for public comment, will be hosted by Chris Collins and Bill Dwight of WHMP radio and Larry Parnass, the Gazette’s editor-in-chief.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com
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