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High hopes (and price tags) for new schools

Nearly a dozen years after the $197.5 million Newton North High School broke the state record for most expensive school, some of the latest projects make that figure pale in comparison.

When it comes to football, kids rallying ’round the flag

As the fall season approaches and concern about head trauma grows, parents are looking for non-contact sports that are just as fun.

A nursery school that lets the children play

There’s a price to pay for hurrying the wonder years. And the Milldam Nursery School community in Concord isn’t willing to pay it.

Newton teachers union frustrated over pace of contract talks

The Newton teachers union likely will start the academic year without a new contract in place, much to teachers’ frustration.

THE ARGUMENT
Should Massachusetts eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines required of children?
Read two views and vote in our online poll.

Beverly Beckham
If only we could reshuffle the days of our lives
It would be impossible to hold a grudge if you woke up a different age every day. You’d forget who you were mad at.

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Other school projects in the works

Brookline is getting a $206 million renovation and expansion of its high school, but there will be no funding from the Massachusetts School Building Authority for the project.

BLOTTER TALES

Hot tempers, a possible mailbox peeper, and a wild chase

People fight about random things, a woman with green fingernails appears to scope out mailboxes, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

Trip to Little League World Series a home run for Malden Challenger program

When the District 12 Challenger team from Malden was invited to play at the Little League World series this weekend, a farflung team of supporters swung into action.

BRION O’CONNOR | ON THE MOVE

The agony, and ecstasy, of cyclocross

“Cyclocross is a miserable experience,” says one devoted enthusiast. Yet the sport continues to enjoy an almost cult-like status in Eastern Massachusetts.

Rockland pushing plan for townwide elementary school

The new Jefferson Elementary School would house all first- through fourth-graders on a central campus near the high school and middle school.

Four Lynn girls design a jewelry collection worth thousands

Four girls from Girls Inc., Lynn got the rare opportunity to see their sketches transformed into expensive, high-end jewelry.

WEST INFORMER

The fight for women’s suffrage, barn sale, and free music classes

The Framingham History Center presents “‘In a Good Cause,’ Framingham and the Fight for Woman’s Suffrage,” on Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. at Village Hall on the Common.

NORTH INFORMER

A quilt show, new fitness studio, and a book event

Sweat Fixx, a fitness studio specializing in low-impact, high-intensity full body workouts is opening a location in downtown Amesbury.


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