It's been a bittersweet past year for St. Stanislaus families.

Just months after celebrating milestones for the Catholic parish — with a 125th anniversary Mass that also marked 30 years since the church was re-dedicated following a fire — the small South End community parish and adjacent school were dealt a blow. 

 

St. Stanislaus School, an institution for Catholic education at 37 Rockland St. for more than a century, will be shuttering at the end of the school year, the Diocese of Fall River announced earlier this month.

 

The news was met with shock and dismay from parishioners, and past and present school staff and families, many of whom called the Polish Catholic school home for generations.

 

"It's very sad," said Denita Tremblay, a former principal of St. Stanislaus School and an active parishioner.

 

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