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Thursday, July 29, 2010
An incident at the Woburn Y involving a Medford mom has led the Greater Boston YMCA to vow to train its 1,500 employees in Eastern Massachusetts about a state law protecting mothers’ right to breast-feed in public. Elizabeth Gomez told the Arlington e-mail list that an employee had told her to stop breast-feeding her baby because it violated the Y’s policy against eating food in a child care facility. Boston Globe, July 30 >>
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Many Arlington youths are performing in three great musicals starting at the Regent Theatre this weekend. The youngest cast, featuring children aged 7-12, will perform "Beauty and the Beast, Jr."
These talented actors sing and dance to your favorite songs from Disney's beloved musical. Performers aged 11-15 will entertain audiences with "Once on this Island," a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid" set in the Caribbean.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Three years after e-mails outlined a relationship between an Ottoson teacher and a principal, who were later fired, a federal court lawsuit grinds on, with motions to dismiss the case and counterarguments to press forward. If the case goes to trial, it is not expected to be anytime soon.
Filings in the lawsuit, brought in February in US District Court in Boston by attorneys for Stavroula Bouris, the former principal, and ex-teacher Charles E. Coughlin Jr., have kept the case moving this summer to an insistent beat shaped by legal argument. Here is a summary:
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
School Committee's legal-services review subcommittee met Wednesday, July 28, in the Community Safety Building to continue discussing how to handle matters of school law after September. It heard an update about research to see how other districts deal with legal issues.
The subcommittee faces a Sept. 14 deadline to make recommendation to the full committee about whether to continue with longtime counsel Stoneman, Chandler & Miller.
Read a summary of the full text of the July 15, 2010, subcommittee's draft minutes (.PDF).
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
After the state Department of Public Health announced Friday, July 16, that West Nile virus had been detected in mosquitoes collected from Arlington Heights, the town health director says there are no current plans for spraying townwide.
The Boston Globe reported July 26 that Winthrop is spraying for West Nile. Asked whether Arlington might follow suit, Health Director Christine Connolly wrote July 28:
"In Arlington we do not spray pesticide townwide to kill adult mosquitoes.
July 16: W. Nile Virus confirmed in mosquitoes in Arlington
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