Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Margaret Gillis of St. Agnes School, earned top honors for her clay sculpture, “Patient Mother, Sleeping Baby.”
The following is a press release from the Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum. The Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum awarded prizes at a gallery reception on Saturday, May 12. The exhibition of student entries from the Arlington Middle School Student Art Contest is on view now through Saturday, May 26, at the Cutter Gallery, 611 Massachusetts Ave., in Arlington Center. Seventeen student artworks were submitted in the contest, which was organized by the museum in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Dallin’s birth and with the intent that students would discover Dallin’s works and be inspired to create art for their own personal expression. The students’ artworks were judged by a jury of art professionals and community leaders, using the criteria of …
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Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
611 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Monday, May 21, 2012
The Arlington Human Rights Commission's Everyday Hero Award went to Ottoson Middle School's Building Respect Task Force and Friends of the Gay/Straight Alliance.
The following is a press release from the Arlington Human Rights Commission. The Arlington Human Rights Commission bestowed its Everyday Hero Award on Ottoson Middle School’s Building Respect Task Force and Friends of the Gay/Straight Alliance at a ceremony on Sunday, May 20, at the Whittemore-Robbins House. Eighty people attended the event to celebrate and honor the groups’ efforts, aimed at fostering a respectful, inclusive climate at Ottoson. Everyday Hero Award The Everyday Hero Award recognizes community members who demonstrate an active commitment to fostering understanding of and respect for our differences. This year’s award was accepted by Ottoson Principal Tim Ruggere and other key members of the Building Respect Task Force and …
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Whittemore-Robbins House Park
700 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Friday, May 18, 2012
The high school's four-person team will face Hamilton-Wenham Sunday evening.
A team from Arlington High School has made High School Quiz Show’s Massachusetts Championship, after taking care of Belmont, Weston and, most recently, Lexington on way to the finals. The high school’s four-person squad – Anna Blachman, Siddharth Hiregowdara, Cory Brazile and Sam Taylor – will face off against Hamilton-Wenham at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, May 20, on WGBH 2 for the state crown. High School Quiz Show’s website has all of the episodes leading up to the championship match, and the show’s tournament bracket. Hamilton-Wenham defeated Sharon, Brookline and Rockport in the earlier rounds.
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Arlington High School
869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
A recap of Arlington Town Meeting's eighth, and now final, session.
Arlington’s 2012 Town Meeting came to a close Wednesday night, as members got through the remaining 24 articles during the meeting’s eighth, and now final, session. Most of the articles were either routine appropriations (which all passed) or recommended votes of no action by the Board of Selectmen (which were all upheld). Of the appropriation articles, Article 52 got the most attention but, like the rest, passed easily. The article asked members to put $20,000 toward signage for Arlington’s four historic sites – The Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, the Jason Russell House, the Old Schwamb Mill and the Uncle Sam Memorial Statue – through the Arlington Committee on Tourism and Economic Development (A-TED). On Wednesday, these 15 articles …
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Arlington Town Hall
730 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Laura Chesson got the approval of the School Committee Thursday. She'll start July 1.
Laura Chesson, the principal of Maynard High School, was named as Arlington’s new assistant superintendent Thursday night. Chesson was selected from a field of five finalists by Superintendent Kathleen Bodie and then confirmed by the School Committee Thursday in a unanimous vote. “I think you’re going to be a great fit in Arlington, and I’m excited you’re here,” School Committee member Jeff Thielman told her at Thursday’s meeting. The position is currently being filled by Wallis Raemer on an interim basis, and it’s been about four years since the district had a full-time assistant superintendent in place, Thielman said. Chesson, who starts July 1, thanked Bodie and the School Committee for the opportunity. “Words cannot express how excited…
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Arlington Public School Administration
869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
US News & World Report put Arlington three spots ahead of neighboring Winchester.
In its annual report released Tuesday, US News & World Report ranked Arlington High School as the 26th best public high school in Massachusetts, 491st in the nation, earning the school’s students, staff and faculty “gold medal” status from the magazine. According to the magazine, 91 percent of Arlington High’s 1,162 students are proficient in English, 90 percent in math. Here’s the state’s top five schools, according to the report, and a look at how Arlington High compared to its neighbors: 1. Sturgis Charter Public School, Hyannis (15th nationally) 2. Boston Latin School (62nd) 3. Hopkinton High School (89th) 4. Belmont High School (111th) 5. Weston High School (132nd) 14. Lexington High School (280th) 26. Arlington High School (491st) 29…
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Arlington High School
869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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A recap of Town Meeting's sixth session on Wednesday.
Town Meeting members began to discuss a proposed ban on gas-powered leaf blowers Wednesday. They also passed Minuteman High School’s budget and a town bylaw amendment that requires residents to bring in their uncollected trash by 9 p.m. the next day. In addition, members decided not to reconsider an earlier vote of no action on Article 32, which would have been a report and recommendation from the town manager on the implementation of a consolidated town-school finance department. Leaf-Blower Debate Town Meeting member Carol Band submitted a substitute motion for Article 25 after the Board of Selectmen’s recommended vote of no action on her original article. Band’s motion would amend the town bylaws to prohibit the use of gas-powered leaf …
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Arlington Town Hall
730 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Two of the district's five finalists have already announced that they're out of the running.
The appointment of a new assistant superintendent is on tonight’s Arlington School Committee agenda. Last month, the district announced that it had five finalists for the position. However, two of those finalists are now out of the running. Belmont High School Principal Michael Harvey was picked as Hamilton-Wenham’s superintendent earlier this week, according to Belmont Patch, and Sheryl Boris-Schacter, principal of Hunnewell Elementary School in Wellesley, recently told the Swellesley Report that she didn’t get an offer from Arlington. That leaves Kerry Dunne, the district’s K-12 director of history and social sciences, Laura Chesson, the principal of Maynard High School, and Alexander Wyeth, an assistant superintendent in Norwood, as the…
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Arlington Public School Administration
869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Former School Committee member Paul Schlichtman will fill former committee member Joseph Curro's seat until the Town Elections next April.
Paul Schlichtman was named to the Arlington School Committee Thursday night. After a 90-minute group interview session, Schlichtman, a former School Committee member, received the necessary four votes from the committee in the first round of the roll-call voting to rise above the field of five applicants. Schlichtman got the nod from members Cindy Starks, Jeff Thielman and Leba Heigham and chairwoman Kirsi Allison-Ampe. Member William Hayner voted for James Flanagan, who recently finished third behind Thielman and Starks in the Town Elections, and member Judson Pierce voted for Len Kardon, who is active in the advocacy groups FYArlington and the Arlington Special Education Parents Advisory Council (SEPAC). Schlichtman will hold the seat, …
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Arlington High School
869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The 'Cupid Shuffle' took over Peirce's playground Friday morning.
Peirce Elementary School students, parents and teachers flash mobbed Friday morning to get ready for that night’s Spring Fling Family Dance at the school. The impromptu group did the “Cupid Shuffle” on the school’s playground. The school’s flash mobs are starting to become a tradition before family dances, as students, parents and teachers did the “Macarena” before one last fall.
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Peirce Elementary School
85 Park Avenue Ext, Arlington, MA
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Maple Leaf
11:37 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Why don’t we just ban everything.....how stupid. I have lived here my whole life and I am proud to call Arlington my home, but now I am really frustrated and honestly disgusted. When the town can’t sweep the street and debris is everywhere on my road I push the debris into piles and then sweep it up and put it into my own leaf bags. Guess I won’t be helping out like I use to and doing my part as … more ›