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Executive Director of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative Suddenly Resigns
Massachusetts Hall is located in Harvard Yard. Roeshana Moore-Evans, the executive director of Harvard's Legacy of Slavery initiative, announced on Friday that she would be resigning from the initative. By Julian J. Giordano. Roeshana Moore-Evans, the executive director of Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery initiative, suddenly announced her resignation on Friday,...
Mass. high school gets some of athletic equipment returned after ‘misunderstanding’
A Massachusetts high school has begun to get some of its athletic uniforms and equipment back after police said it was stolen during an alumni event. A “significant quantity of sports equipment‚” was stolen from the old Stoneham High School’s Athletic Training Room, located at 149 Franklin St., during an alumni event hosted at the school on Tuesday, according to the Stoneham Police Department.
Harvard looks to combat antisemitism, anti-Muslim bias after protests over war in Gaza
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered preliminary recommendations to the school’s interim president Alan Garber. The recommendations issued Wednesday focus on more than a dozen areas where the school...
Longhorns get their first victory: Woburn-based semipro football squad blasts Connecticut
WOBURN — Better practices often lead to a better result on game day. In the second week of their first season in the East Coast Football League, the Middlesex County Longhorns picked up the program’s first victory, defeating an undermanned Connecticut Lightning squad, 32-0 on Saturday at Woburn High’s Connolly Stadium.
2024 school retirees recognized
TEWKSBURY — The Tewksbury School Committee met on May 22, 2024 at Tewksbury Memorial High School. The meeting kicked off with recognition of school district retirees. According to Superintendent Brenda Theriault-Regan, the retirees have a total of “over 200 years of service in education to thousands of Tewksbury students.”
Andover voters reinstate original school budget
ANDOVER — Residents gathered June 18 for a Special Town Meeting that led to reinstatement of the original fiscal 2025 School Department operating budget and added Chapter 70 funding. The nearly two-hour meeting focused on the Andover Public Schools fiscal 2025 budget that was up for a vote as...
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: 8 Wilmington Students Earn Academic Honors At St. John’s Prep
DANVERS, MA — St. John’s Prep recently announced the names of Wilmington students who earned academic honors for the fourth quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. Headmaster’s List (A- or above in all courses) James Callahan ’24. Ryan Gallozzi ’29. Jonathan Morad ’25. Christopher...
More Academic Honors for Bedford Students
Here are more of the academic awards and honors announcements about Bedford residents sent to The Bedford Citizen from the academic institutions. There will be more to come. The Georgia Institute of Technology presented degrees to more than 5,700 undergraduate and graduate students during the Institute’s 266th Commencement exercises on May 2 – 4, 2024, at the McCamish Pavilion.
School Board Approve Paying Unpaid Student Meals Debts
During the June 17 Hudson School Board meeting, the Board was presented with a request for the School District to pay the unpaid student meals debts for the school year. “The School Board has a policy on meal charging – Policy EFAA. Parents/ Guardians are responsible for providing their students with meals for the day or providing funds for the students to purchase meals,” Food Service Director, Karen Atherton, wrote in a memo to the School Board. “They are encouraged to pay into accounts for those students on a monthly basis and pay in advance so that funds can be available on those students’ accounts as they come through the lunch lines.”
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Wilmington’s Balaram Desai Graduates From Clark University
WORCESTER, MA — Balaram S. Desai, of Wilmington, received a degree from Clark University during the University’s 120th Commencement exercises on Monday, May 20. Desai graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Desai graduated with honors in Physics. The University awarded 1,376 degrees (503 bachelor’s, 847 master’s, 26 doctoral...
(Archive October 2007) PN Students Volunteer at Elementary School
Eight students in the Practical Nursing Program at the Devens campus recently volunteered to take blood pressure at an Open House at the John R. Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham, supervised by instructors Dianne Hunt and Collene Thaxton. The following quotes are from the students who participated in the event:
Fusion Academy refuted Andover School Committee's arguments
ANDOVER — Fusion Academy has filed a reply in the ongoing lawsuit against the Andover School Committee regarding two refusals from the committee to allow the academy to operate. Fusion Academy is a private school with over 80 locations across the country that focuses on “personalized one-to-one learning,” according...
Wakefield High students benefit from $430,000 in scholarships
Three dozen scholarships worth more than $430,000 recently were presented to Wakefield High School students through the Wakefield High School Educational Foundation. Attending the recent ceremony honoring recipients were Michael Wanzer (Wakefield Class of 2004), School Board member David Priddy (Wakefield Class of 1992) and Superintendent Francisco Durán. The...
A graduation collaboration
TEWKSBURY — A very special preschool graduation was held last week. As part of an intergenerational initiative between Heatherwood Gracious Retirement Living and Primrose School of Tewksbury, students in the first graduating pre-K class were presented with their diplomas at the Heatherwood residence. Spearheaded by Heatherwood activities coordinator Kate...
Hudson Post 48 Prep Finish Week Two With 5-2 Record Wins
Last week, Hudson’s American Legion Prep team concluded their June schedule with matchups in Rochester, Salem, and home against Portsmouth. Post 48 began their week by splitting a doubleheader in Rochester with a 7-3 win in game one and a 9-2 loss in game two, then played at Michele Park on Thursday in what was supposed to be a doubleheader but saw game two rained out and lost to Post 63 Gold 6-3. They then returned home for the first time since beating Londonderry 11-1 and beat Portsmouth 9-3 from the friendly confines of Alvirne.
12U team breezes through first three: Tewksbury handles Chelmsford, Methuen and Riverside-Bradford
TEWKSBURY — The Tewksbury 12U district baseball team is two wins away from checking the first box on its summer bucket list. After a 3-0 start in the district tournament, the Redmen are firing on all cylinders with their final preliminary matchup with Dracut set for Tuesday. If victorious,...
Bright future on the diamond for TMHS baseball
The Tewksbury High baseball program is in good hands. While the varsity squad turned heads this season on the diamond under first-year coach Matt Feld — winning its first postseason game since 2012 — the sub-varsity teams’ successful campaigns only confirm what Feld and his group previewed this spring.
Hudson resident chosen as history teacher of the year finalist
HUDSON — For Jenny Staysniak, a history teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, the lessons do not end with what her students learn in the classroom. She believes it is important to look outside the classroom and into the overall community to “bring history to life.”. Staysniak, who...
Weston High to Add Another Co-Op Sports Option: Gymnastics
If everything goes according to plan at tomorrow’s School Committee meeting (agenda here), Weston will add one more sport to its amazing roster, and that will be girls gymnastics, as a co-op program with Wayland. Practices will be held off-site at MGC Sudbury and the program will compete in the winter season.
Nashua Post 3 downs Salem
Jayce Martinez collected three hits to lead the Nashua Post 3 Senior team to a 7-1 triumph over Salem’s Post 63 Thursday night in Salem. Jake O’Connor tossed three innings of scoreless relief for Nashua. He gave up one hit and struck out five. Austin Suchecki and Ryan Haskell each added two hits for Nashua.
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