April 2006 Headlines
Protesters want tougher access to criminal records
Yakov Kronrod, 25, graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in three years with a 4.0 undergraduate GPA. The clean-cut math wiz was a teaching assistant working toward his master's degree when he made a mistake. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/21/06)
UMass Lowell students heard at research event
Scott Jobling, a senior at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, thought liquid crystals used in computer monitor displays were awfully slow. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/28/06)
Local students present research
Shauna Harding remembers feeling peer pressure when she entered high school. Later, as a sophomore at Berkshire Community College, she developed a hypothesis: Those who enter high school in ninth grade face more peer pressure than ninth-graders experience in a seventh- through 12th-grade school. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/28/06)
Clearing the way for funeral processions
It shouldn't happen, but it does: Impatient and distracted drivers cutting off grieving family members driving in funeral processions. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/23/06)
Rally participants show support for Chapter 70
Sixteen-year-old Joseph Petmezis can play the guitar and the piano, as well as sing. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/27/06)
'Are we going to have enough money for this class next year?'
When it comes to registering for classes these days, Littleton High School sophomore Dana Mulone knows there's more to consider than just her interests. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/27/06)
Students ask for funding
Public college students and faculty from across the state traveled to Beacon Hill yesterday and urged legislators to grant their schools more money than is included in the House of Representatives fiscal 2007 budget. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/13/06)
Rooney named newest judge
A Concord attorney known for prosecuting priests convicted of sexual molestation will be the next judge to sit at Dedham District Court. (By Jessica Scarpati, 04/13/06)
College students urge lawmakers to restore higher-education funding
Public college students and faculty from across the state were on Beacon Hill yesterday urging legislators to grant their schools more money than is included in the House of Representatives fiscal 2007 budget. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/13/06)
Home care advocates rally today
Hampshire County home-care advocates will be among those at a Statehouse rally today in support of a bill that would make it easier for the elderly and the handicapped to remain in their homes. (By Jim Bildner, 04/12/06)
Official: OSHA lacking resources to be effective
Reacting to a scaffolding collapse that killed three in Boston last week, a legislative committee Tuesday heard concerns from construction safety groups that federal safety inspectors are stretched too thin across the state. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/12/06)
Westwood chorus performs at State House
The Westwood High School chorus sang the blues yesterday at the State House in one of its last performances of the year before being axed from next year's curriculum. (By Jessica Scarpati Pelayo, 04/07/06)
DA named to Dedham judgeship
A Concord attorney well-known for successful prosecutions of pedophile priests will be the next associate justice at Dedham District Court. (By Jessica Scarpati, 04/06/06)
Legislature: Health insurance for all
Health care in Massachusetts was reinvented yesterday, as the Legislature overwhelmingly approved a compromise bill calling for near-universal coverage. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/06/06)
Legislature ponders new funeral procession law
Impatient, distracted and insensitive drivers often cut off grieving family members driving in funeral processions, according to Don Dufault, director of Fitchburg's Bosk Funeral Home. (By Natalia Pelayo, 04/03/06)
More Bay State residents relying on food pantries
Local food pantries are doing well even as a statewide study says more Bay State residents are relying on food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. (By Jessica Scarpati, 04/03/06)