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By adamg - 1/5/24 - 3:59 pm

State Rep. Bill MacGregor, who represents West Roxbury and a smidge of Brookline, says he'll send a $5 JP Licks gift card to any young'un in Boston or Brookline who shovels out a hydrant when it's safe to do so after the weekend storm then has a parent take a photo on Instagram, tagged @votebillmacgregor and fills out a form.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:29 am

WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools document released yesterday that could many of the city's smaller public schools closed as BPS builds out a new system of larger, more modern schools all with the space and equipment needed for a "high-quality student experience." The proposal does not name specific schools; it's meant as a starting point for more detailed discussions this spring with parents and staff.

By adamg - 12/20/23 - 3:15 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected, again, a bid to block Boston Public Schools from changing its previous grades-and-test-score criteria for admissions to Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 12:31 pm

A crash involving a school bus and several vehicles outside the Henry Grew School, 40 Gordon Ave. in Hyde Park this morning injured a parent standing on the sidewalk as students were arriving for the day. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 2:54 pm

A Maine woman today sued a now retired Boston fertility specialist after, she says, she learned that her daughter is actually his, because he impregnated her in his office in 1980 with his own sperm after promising he would use the sperm of a donor who looked like her husband, with whom she was unable to conceive.

Sarah Depoian says she learned of Dr. Merle Berger's deception when her daughter, eager to learn more about her background, had her DNA tested by Ancestry.com and 23&Me: Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 10:39 pm

Boston Latin School Head of School Jason Gallagher alerted parents today that a student discovered "a small swastika" etched into a gym door - even as the school was planning to launch programs "related to antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab discrimination." Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/23 - 5:03 pm

Boston city councilors today condemned what they call an abuse by the state-owned Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Crossing: Boston student athletes have to clear out by 3:30 p.m. so busloads of students from well-off suburbs can use its state-of-the-art facilities for training and not get home too late. Read more.

By adamg - 11/28/23 - 11:22 pm

Boston Police report arresting a teen they say went to class at Up Academy, 215 Dorchester St. in South Boston with a loaded gun in his backpack today. Read more.

By adamg - 11/28/23 - 9:07 pm

A Sumner School staff member suffered minor injuries this afternoon while helping students cross Cummins Highway in Roslindale Square near the former Washington Irving Middle School that is now the Sumner's upper school, according to e-mail sent to parents by school Principal Meghan Welch. Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 11/24/23 - 1:58 pm
From Motherhood Undone

"I never expected to be a mother," Jennifer McClure writes in her artist statement. "I was forty-six when she was born, and I spent twenty-one days in the hospital after. When I got home, we had a long process of getting to know each other. She became more of her own person, while I let go of the self I thought I knew." Read more.

By adamg - 11/17/23 - 11:11 am

Parents of children at the Curley School got texts shortly before 10 a.m. that the school had been put in "safe mode" - its entrance and exit doors locked - and that they shouldn't head for the school.

A few minutes later, parents got an all-clear message: Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 11:23 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today ruled that a man no longer has to make previously agreed payments to his wife as part of a divorce settlement on account of how she tried, but failed, to carve him up with a hatchet a few months after they signed the settlement. Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/23 - 9:26 am

MALatinoNews.com reports on the resignations by members upset over a new BPS policy that will put ESL students in English-language classes right away, with English help as needed, rather than teaching them courses in their native languages.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 12:10 pm
Slide shaped like a football that Gronk has just spiked

One guess where they got the idea for this slide.

DCR last week unveiled designs for the Gronk Playground it will be installing on the Esplanade - centered around a slide meant to immortalize the way Rob Gronkowski used to spike a football after a touchdown. Read more.

By adamg - 10/30/23 - 8:54 pm

Parents at the Lyndon School on Mt. Vernon Street in West Roxbury got e-mail today about "graffiti containing racially offensive language and inappropriate images" sprayed in a couple of classrooms and a hallway over the weekend.

School staffers counseled students who may have seen the graffiti. Boston Police are investigating.

By adamg - 10/21/23 - 3:00 pm
Message from Ohrenberger School to parents about undercooked chicken delivered yesterday

A fed-up parent of a child at the Ohrenberger School on West Boundary Road in West Roxbury forwarded this note the school sent out yesterday. The school has a brand-new kitchen, but it's been out of commission since the start of the year and so far BPS has yet to get it fixed, so instead the school has been serving packaged lunches - some of which showed up yesterday as unsafe to serve.

By adamg - 8/26/23 - 10:34 am

Boston Public Schools Indoor Air Quality provides hourly stats from more than 4,400 sensors in individual BPS classrooms and offices on a variety of ventilation-related readings: Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulates, humidity and temperature. Read more.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:02 am
Chantal Lima Barbosa

Mayor Wu announced today she's appointed Chantal Lima Barbosa to the Boston School Committee to fill out the remaining four months of the term of Lorena Lopera, who resigned earlier this year.
Read more.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 3:04 pm
Lead infused cups

The Boston Public Health Commisison is warning parents who might have Cupkin double-walled stainless steel children’s cups (both 8- and 12-oz sizes) to take them away from the kids immediately and demand a refund from Soojimus, the company that sold them. Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 8:58 am

The Haley School in Roslindale has alerted parents and staffers that one of its students was seriously injured in a fireworks explosion on July 5th, and points them to a GoFundMe page set up by his mom, which says that in addition to losing most of his fingers on one hand, he suffered serious facial injuries and faces a series of operations.

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