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Hopkinton to return to in-person classes by May, perhaps sooner Hopkinton High School Monitor file Published: 3/15/2021 4:28:26 PM Hopkinton School District plans to reopen fully five days a week by May 3 for any student who wants in-person learning – and maybe even earlier, if they can swing it. School Board chairman Jim O’Brien announced the change at the first info session for the district’s annual meeting, held Saturday via Zoom. A group of parents in town had been pushing for school...

He helped Trump bring American hostages home. Now hes working for Biden. Jenna McLaughlin © Provided by Yahoo! News Roger Carstens, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, at the State Department in February. (Eric Kayne for Yahoo News) WASHINGTON — Just days before Christmas last year, Roger Carstens, a former Green Beret turned diplomat, was thousands of miles away from home. He had flown to Saudi Arabia in a last-ditch attempt to attend the trial of two U.S. citi...

A Jersey Guy: BC Doesnt Even Win in Jesuit Hoop Battle As a Jesuit school, BC has more restrictions than many public schools, but since Al Skinner was fired in 2011, and using only urban Jesuit schools for comparison the Eagles have still come up short. Author: Mar 14, 2021 As a Jesuit school, BC has more restrictions than many public schools, but since Al Skinner was fired in 2011, and using only urban Jesuit schools for comparison the Eagles have still come up short. If there was a turning po...

Newton playwright creates live theater show Community Content Mark Binder, a Providence-based author and playwright, born in Newton, created a live theater experience show on Zoom that attracted local audiences and viewers from around the world.  Although produced by The Wilbury Group Theater in Providence, Rhode Island, on any given night people are watching from New York, Washington, Melbourne and Berlin. His play, “The Race” shows two men competing for the same job in a dysfunctional co...

More than 20,000 have died in Illinois, but that number, horrifying as it is, doesn’t begin to capture the loss felt by those left behind.

A Jersey Guy: A Plan To Revive BC Hoops BCs basketball future is linked with to the hire of their next basketball coach, will they get it right? Author: Mar 11, 2021 BCs basketball future is linked with to the hire of their next basketball coach, will they get it right? In what may be the most important move in the history of Boston College basketball, BC athletic director Patrick Kraft has received one clear message from the small core of Eagle basketball fans: "Youve got to get this one right...

A Jersey Guy: BC Coaching Search:  Show Me The Money If BC wants to compete in the ACC it will have to have a competitive salary package for its next coach Author: Feb 24, 2021 If BC wants to compete in the ACC it will have to have a competitive salary package for its next coach The harsh reality facing Boston College athletic director Pat Kraft in his search for a coach to resuscitate the Eagles mens basketball program is that it is, at best, a stepping stone job. Jim Christian didnt do the...

The widows plea: An oft-forgotten victim of a famous Kilkenny ambush gone wrong Berni Egan has researched the story of the Friary Street Ambush - the 100th anniversary of which is today Reporter: );  ); “At 9am he had his breakfast with me at own house in Upper Walkin Street, and went off to his work about 9.30am. I did not see him again alive.” — Widow Bridget Dollard’s statement to Military Court of Enquiry, Kilkenny, February 22,1921. Over the course of the next few minutes one m...

A Jersey Guy: BC Search List Lacks Color The initial list of BC coaching candidates is disturbing for variety of reasons. Author: The initial list of BC coaching candidates is disturbing for variety of reasons. Boston College Athletic Director Pat Krafts initial list of coaching candidates as a replacement for recently fired mens basketball coach Jim Christian reveals two disturbing trends: tone deafness and color blindness. According to sources at BC, the list includes a variety of names, with...

The work will allow the USS Gerald R. Ford to tie up at the yard for a final check-up later this year after its first shock tests, which will involve setting off explosions near the ship. It will be the first such testing of a U.S. Navy carrier in decades.