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EDUCATION
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...
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...
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.”
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.
Boston University buys Allston lot approved for 17-story residential building; Suffolk to become Beantown Pub's landlord downtown
Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Separately, Suffolk University yesterday paid $30 million for 101 Tremont...
Cambridge Public Schools name interim superintendent after superintendent voted out
David Murphy, the current chief operating officer for Cambridge Public Schools, will serve for at least 90 days and up to one year. After choosing to terminate their current superintendent’s contract, the Cambridge School Committee named a school administrator as interim superintendent. David Murphy, the current chief operating officer,...
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...
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,...
Groom Construction Awards Scholarships to Local Students
Boston – Groom Construction Co., Inc. has awarded three scholarships to local high school students pursuing careers in construction and construction related fields. Groom Construction recently awarded its annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Scholarship to Lindzy Silva and the Construction Management Scholarships to Alexander Wettengel and Mayrin Rodriguez Barrera. Silva and Wettengel are recent graduates of Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School, while Rodriguez Barrera is a recent graduate of Lynn Vocational Technical Institute.
Malden High Golden Tornado Baseball Team honors trio of captains on Senior Night
Four-year varsity players Ryan Coggswell, Ezechiel ‘Zeke’ Noelsaint and Jake Simpson in spotlight. The Malden High School Golden Tornado Baseball Team had its best season in 30 years this past spring, finishing at 16-5 overall, including a solid second-place finish in the Greater Boston League at 10-4, just behind GBL Champ Somerville, with the Highlanders coming in at 12-2 GBL. Major contributors to the team’s success this season were its three senior captains: Ryan Coggswell, Ezechiel “Zeke” Noelsaint and Jake Simpson.
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...
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.
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...
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.
MPDC Announces Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Tour
Madison Park Development Corporation is pleased to announce that we will host a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Tour during Winter Break from February 17th to 21st, 2025!. Historically, Black colleges and universities have been academic, social, and spiritual safe havens for students seeking an intimate and purposeful college...
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...
Use Pope John and the old high school
The seemingly endless and at times hopeless debate about how to reduce overcrowding in the Everett Public Schools can be settled by the administration and the city council, and the superintendent of schools by opting to use both the former high school and the former Pope John facility instead of fighting over which facility to use.
DEI report shows rise in bias-related incidents in Newton schools
The number of bias-related incidents reported in the Newton public school system has gone up significantly in the past year, according to the district’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Kathy Lopes, director of that department, presented an end-of-year report to the School Committee this week, giving a comprehensive...
Around the city . . .
The former Pope John High School can easily be refitted to open again as a middle school or as an adjunct to the overcrowded high school. But this is Everett, where a school in a crowded city that needs more classrooms, cannot be used as a school. It is a...
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,...
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