Some 21 years ago, Don Martelli and his brother got their father a battery-operated Bruins clock. But dad vowed he would only actually put a battery in after the next time the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. Guess what he did last night?

Bruins Clock: The Movie.

JacksonBoston City Councilors John Connolly (at large) and Tito Jackson (Roxbury, South End) today proposed raising the minimum age at which public-school students could leave school to 18.

The two say similar action in other states has led to dramatic decreases in dropout rates; they will hold a hearing later on dropout-prevention efforts by Boston Public Schools. If the council as a whole agrees with them, it would have to seek approval from the state legislature to change the current minimum Boston dropout age of 16.

The Herald reports the T is readying a policy that would require parents to fold their strollers while on trains.

MBTA GM Richard Davey: "There are some that are like SUVs."

Carla, mother of two, however, is aghast:

On busy train, parent should stand holding baby in 1 hand, stoller in other, & not be able to hang on to anything? Unsafe.

UPDATE: He was found and is OK.

Boston Police tweet officers are looking for a missing 10-year-old, Native American, 4'11" with blue eyes and weighing 110 lbs. He was wearing a bright blue North Face jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers.

Police say Tobias Chase ran away from his Alveston Street home around 7:30 a.m.

One resident was started to see "a big SWAT looking operation going down on Amory Street" this morning. However, police say he's been known to frequent the Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores on Boylston Street in the Back Bay.

More info from BPD.

Just because your stroller is too large to fit in your Charlestown townhouse doesn't mean you can chain it to a street sign every night. At least, not without somebody complaining to the city about it.

The owner of a school-van service was arraigned yesterday on charges he sexually assaulted a young girl in one of his vans on the way home from school on Tuesday.

Sergio Lara, 53, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail at his arraignment in Chelsea District Court on charges of rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child, Revere Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said.

Lara owns Maya Transportation, which brings children to and from schools in Revere, Chelsea and East Boston. According to a statement from the DA's office:

One of his passengers, a five-year-old Everett girl, told her mother on Tuesday that Lara had sexually assaulted her on the way home from school. The girl’s parents took her to an area hospital the same evening and notified police. Lara was identified and arrested the next day.

The van in question. Photo from Suffolk County DA's office.

Innocent, etc.

At-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley today called for a comprehensive sex-education program and for easier availability of condoms in Boston schools.

"Not taking action, now that would be controversial. It would also be cowardly and counter to what I believe the role of government is - to solve problems and make people's lives better," she said at a hearing.

Pressley said she was not advocating teaching young people how to have sex. "Our young people already know how to have sex," she said. She said she would want any program to include discussions of abstinence. "I wish our young people would wait as long as possible to become sexually active, wait until they're older, more emotionally mature, better prepared to deal with the consequences and in a healthy, safe and exclusive relationship with a loving partner. But a solution based on wishing our young people would wait to have sex and doing nothing else is no solution at all." [Pressley's complete opening statement]

It's getting to the point where you need more than your hands to count the number of snow days around here, which means summer vacations will start a bit later than usual for a lot of kids.

In Boston, the last day of school has moved from June 21 to the 27th. But it won't go much further: the teachers contract stipulates that school can not go past June 30, reports the Globe. To make the mandated 180 days of instruction happen, they may take away some of the April vacation.

“If we have a couple more we’re going to have to look at other ways to make these up,” [schools spokesman Matthew] Wilder said. “At this stage, I think everything is on the table,” he added when asked if school officials were eyeing any dates in particular should two more cancellations occur.

Same story in my town, Mansfield, where at this point school won't get out until June 28. Three more snow days, and hello July!