News

Committee Closes Its School Year

Committee Closes Its School Year

By Ann Needle During its final meeting of the school year Tuesday night, the Nashoba School Committee finished some year-end housekeeping, completing policy decisions and holding discussions that will impact future policy. After two postponements, the Committee worked through its promised discussion of community responses to the District Improvement Survey. The Survey was conducted this [...]

| June 19, 2013
Nashoba Grads Stomp It Up

Nashoba Grads Stomp It Up

By Ann Needle

The Nashoba Regional High School Class of 2013 collected diplomas on the DCU stage Sunday, leaving what’s likely to be vivid memories of its last days at the school.

The day itself was a beauty, steeped in Nashoba graduation tradition, with green and white caps and gowns, the singing of “Amazing Grace” by the school Chorus, and faculty decked out in academic robes. But, the backdrop of tradition did not stop the new and unexpected from cropping up.

| June 12, 2013

Features

Building Bridges Across Generations

Building Bridges Across Generations

By Nancy Arsenault The buzz in the room is louder than anything usually allowed in a classroom. Up and down activity from the seats is welcomed instead of discouraged. What else is different? While the setting is the Center Elementary School, many of these students are 60, 70 and 80 years of age. That’s just [...]

| June 19, 2013
Vacation and Community Photos

Vacation and Community Photos

         

| June 12, 2013
Jenkins Offers Lyme Warning

Jenkins Offers Lyme Warning

By Ann Needle

“I just don’t want anyone to have to go through this,” maintained Frank Jenkins, a long-time Stow resident and recent victim of Lyme Disease. In telling his story of a near-miss diagnosis of Lyme, Jenkins said he wants residents to know just what to do if they suspect Lyme in themselves or family members.

For Jenkins, the retired Stow Postmaster, the classic symptoms of Lyme he experienced earlier this year — fever, chills, weakness — should have been recognizable immediately. However, that was not the case. “My wife had Lyme disease last year, so we know what it looks like,” he said.

| June 12, 2013

Sports

NRHS Baseball Represents at States

NRHS Baseball Represents at States

By Ellen Oliver There are nine players on a baseball team, but during the Division 1 State Championship game on Saturday, Nashoba had trouble with just one member of the Bridgewater-Raynham squad, southpaw pitcher Mike Bruemmel. Bruemmel threw a no-hitter into the eighth inning, until Nashoba’s Jack Sarnoski hit into the gap in centerfield to [...]

| June 19, 2013