UNH student research leads to new wind energy law The Boston Globe | DURHAM, N.H.—A research project by a group of University of New Hampshire students has led to a new state law supporting residential wind energy. | Gov. John Lynch signed the bill into law this month. It provides guidelines for residential wind energy systems. The law addresses issues such a...
Schools struggle with costs The Boston Globe | For the third year in a row, a number of communities northwest of Boston received only small boosts in local aid for education, as the state continued to adapt to a new formula for distributing money to local school systems. | Officials in the affected communities - which had benefited more from t...
Ex-high school stars return to stock summer teams The Boston Globe | Three of the perennial powers in the Eastern Massachusetts Women's Soccer League's top division - Azzurri of Medfield, Boston Renegades U-20 of Waltham, and Suburban Thunder of Newton - include numerous local former and current players from Northea...
UNH student research leads to new wind energy law The Boston Globe | DURHAM, N.H.—A research project by a group of University of New Hampshire students has led to a new state law supporting residential wind energy. | Gov. John Lynch signed the bill into law this month. It provides guidelines for residential wi...
Woman sues Hudson, NH schools over flyers The Boston Globe | CONCORD, N.H.—A woman has sued the Hudson, New Hampshire School District, saying the superintendent was wrong to reject her intention to distribute vacation Bible school flyers to students. | Patricia Regan claims that Superintendent Randy Be...
School lunch prices on rise The Boston Globe | BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Just like everyday families, school districts in Connecticut are struggling to pay their grocery bills. | The Bridgeport Public Schools is facing a $720 a day increase in milk when it begins handing out 18,000 half-pint cart...
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Video game industry's needs spur schools to offer degree programs The Boston Globe | Eighteen months of playing video games in a lab - and learning how they work - might sound like goofing off. But that's how Sean Kaufmann earned an associate in science degree in...
Artist Hawkeye Glenn finds solace in son's school's garden Austin American Statesman | Hawkeye Glenn's parents instilled in him a love of growing things as a young boy in Thorndale. His grandfather taught him to weld. The multimedia artist and blacksmith has used t...
17 pregnancies at US school after girls make baby pact The Guardian | · Half of expectant pupils had planned parenthood | · Revelation prompts review of sex education | A small fishing town in Massachusetts is coming to terms with the new...
Treasurer: Rein in school construction costs The Boston Globe | BOSTON—State Treasurer Timothy Cahill says communities should be more frugal when building new schools. | Cahill says cities and towns considering new schools should use off-the-shelf building designs that could cut school construction costs ...
Boston schools raise lunch prices to reduce fund gap The Boston Globe | The Boston public schools yesterday decided to increase its breakfast and lunch prices this fall by 25 cents, following the lead of many districts statewide that are battling escalating food costs. | The price increase is part of a plan district of...
Pink flamingos help student athletes raise a little green The Boston Globe | When Dianne Reilly looked out her window one day last week, she could have sworn there was a flock of flamingos in her Hingham front yard. She rubbed her eyes, did a double-take, and . . . they were still there. | Reilly was one of the first to get...
As endangered turtles wash ashore, scientists get a rare glimpse The Boston Globe | CUTTYHUNK ISLAND - Seagulls, strangely absent from this quaint summer getaway, feasted Monday along the rocky shoreline, and Carrie DeArmond and her daughter, Jordan, knew something was amiss. | "There were five or six and then another and another," DeArmond said. "And then I said, 'Oh, my God, would you look at that.' " | Lying in a patch of mud...
White House grants Army request for more brass Philadelphia Daily News | RICHARD LARDNER | The Associated Press | WASHINGTON - The White House has done an about-face and given the Army permission to add five new generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance. | In early May, the Army was told by the Office of Management and Budget, President Bush's administrative arm, that it already had enou...
