November 11, 2008 – 06:20 pm
From the Lynn Item’s Controversial course sours Christmas for some students: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. That is unless you are in Irene Dalton’s sixth-grade English class at Swampscott Middle School. A number of parents are upset with a lesson plan taught by Dalton in her English class. Parent Diana Travascio said she [...]
From the Swampscott Reporter’s Former principal Peter Sack says cutting Industrial Tech education is a bad idea: “Two weeks ago, following five years of public silence, I attended the public hearing on the Swampscott School Committee’s fiscal 2009 budget. I had heard that the superintendent was recommending the elimination of the Industrial Technology program, and [...]
Fro Swampscott man’s dream raises funds to fight diabetes: “Martin Miserandino, originally of Swampscott, recently received the American Diabetes Association’s prestigious Cure. Care. Commitment. Community Volunteer Award at the organization’s Community Volunteer Leadership Conference and annual meeting in Dallas, Texas.”
From an open letter written by a sixth grader to the superintendent of schools in the town where I grew up: “Many of the Machon students and I request that you rethink your idea of closing the Machon School and transferring the children to different schools. The Machon School is a treasure in each student’s [...]
February 20, 2007 – 12:38 pm
From A painful farewell to a fallen Marine: “Yesterday, more than 1,000 mourners crowded into St. John the Evangelist Church [in Swampscott] to say a final goodbye to Captain Jennifer Jean Harris Harris, watching as a Marine honor guard carried her flag-draped coffin into the seaside church where she was baptized. Harris, the first Massachusetts [...]
February 8, 2007 – 09:54 am
From Swampscott Marine dies in chopper crash in Iraq: “An overachiever who graduated Swampscott High School bound for the Naval Academy, Jennifer Harris signed up for the most grueling program available: She wanted to be a Marine. Harris, 27, a Marine Corps captain, was killed yesterday while piloting her CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter north of [...]
November 14, 2006 – 11:32 am
From The Swampscott Reporter: :Swampscott saw its first reported drive-by shooting Monday night, Nov. 13, when somebody fired shots into the side of a house at 7 Hillcrest Circle.” As my brother said (who lives a few blocks away), “Swampscott ain’t a little sleepy seaside town anymore.”
September 28, 2006 – 06:00 am
Last Wednesday morning, just after arriving at work, I was informed that a former Swamspcott High School student had been killed in battle in Iraq. A few minutes later, I found out it was one of my former students, a young man named Jared Raymond.
Jared was one of my first students at the high school. [...]
September 23, 2006 – 05:36 pm
Swampscott Jews Blow!! This is from the Swampscott Reporter, the newspaper of record for the town where I grew up, “Although [Philadelphia] is listed in the just-released 2007 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for having ‘most shofars blown in unison,’ North Shore Jews (with a little help from a few friends of [...]
Just wanted to make sure that I linked to some good news about the old hometown’s school system, especially since I’ve been linking to all the bad news over the last few months. Anyway, according to the Swampscott Reporter, “The new Swampscott High School may be ready to open several months early.” Hoorah!
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