By: Tracey Zysk – Nov. 2015 Eat Eat Eat… When preparing your Thanksgiving dinner, take a moment and create a plate for your four legged friend. Over and over we are told NOT to feed our dogs “people food”. Well on this Thanksgiving, let’s break the rules a little and let your dog be included […]
By: Bill Cushing – Nov. 2015 It’s not that often that I write about a comedy. Quite frankly it’s because I think that most of the comedies on the air today just aren’t that good. There are a few good ones; Big Bang Theory and Modern Family are two of them. But a new comedy […]
METHUEN – Francisco Urena, Massachusetts Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs, is recommending a children’s book “Veteran Heroes In Our Neighborhood” by Valerie Pfundstein and recently introduced the book to VAV Board Members. In an effort to help Secretary Urena with his mission to help educate children about Veterans, VAV donated 26 copies of “Veteran Heroes In Our […]
By: Amy Berard – November, 2015 1. How often is the SpEd (Special Education) teacher in the inclusion classroom? At an IEP meeting, parents will be notified if their child is in an inclusion class. A class is labeled as an inclusion class when a SpEd teacher is pushing in to provide extra support for […]
By: Jeff Katz – November, 2015 For those of us with children of a certain age, we hear on a fairly regular basis about what is going right and what is going wrong with our schools. Sometimes, the observations are spot on and on some occasions they could not possibly be more wrong. Of course, […]
By: Al Kaprielian – November 2015 With summer over and fall here, we now look ahead to the winter. In this month’s article, I am going to talk about winter storms and how Meteorologists forecast them. Winter storms can bring snow, sleet, and freezing rain. There is a difference between sleet (ice pellets) and freezing […]
By Christine Morabito – November 2015 “Killer Tomatoes” was a cute name for a really silly horror flick. When the term is applied to genetically modified organisms, things get even more absurd. Ditto, the names, “Frankenfoods” and “Terminator Seeds,” which unfairly depict one of the greatest advancements in agricultural history. Unfortunately, these scary words are effective, […]
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BOSTON – A member of the Worcester Wildcats semi-professional football team was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for his role in carrying out a stolen identity refund fraud scheme that resulted in an almost $1 million loss to the federal government. Jose Manuel Abreu-Elicier, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy […]
By: Peter Larocque – Oct. 2015 I have been pondering and considering the many issues that have made headlines that as a Christian I find myself at times at odds with. My purpose here in this column is not to pass judgment on anyone but to offer as a Christian a different approach to handling […]
By: Al Kaprielian – Oct. 2015 Our warm weather of September is now just a memory. Boston saw its first heat wave in September since 1983. A heat wave is defined as three or more consecutive days when the temperature reaches 90 degrees or higher. An upper level ridge of HIGH PRESSURE was responsible for […]
By: Jeff Katz – Oct. 2015 “It is clear Ahmed’s teachers failed him” said White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest when he was questioned about a fourteen year old student in Irving, Texas. No, Mister Spokesflack the failure here came on the part of those who thought the real story would never be revealed. There’s […]
By: Joe D’Amore – Oct. 2105 If cities and towns define extreme poverty and homelessness as a public-health issue, the public-policy responses will be quite different than what we are used to today. Consider that in all cases a homeless person, or someone who lives in extreme poverty, is marginal in most, if not all, […]
By: Tracey Zysk – October, 2015 On the morning of August 15, 2015 Catlyn Wright woke up to a sick baby. Not one of her human children, but her fur baby. Dozer, her 6yr old, 142 lb Laberdane was whimpering. In fact, Dozer was more than wimpering, he was in serious pain. No mother ever […]
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