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Former Milton Academy teacher facing rape charge in Mass. returned to teaching in Maine By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 4:45 p.m. Email to a Friend Reynold J. Buono leaves Norfolk County Superior Court in January 2019.Lane Turner/Globe Staff/file A former Milton Academy drama teacher accused of raping a student decades ago in a high-profile case apparently returned briefly to teaching while awaiting trial, volunteering as an instructor for seniors enrolled in a remote program associated with the University of Southern Maine. Reynold J. Buono, who was extradited to the...

PORTLAND, Maine – A retired drama teacher accused of sexually assaulting boys in Massachusetts and New York was allowed to teach in a program for senior citizens that’s affiliated with the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn campus. The college's staff and faculty members are subject to criminal background checks, but they’re not required for senior college volunteers like 75-year-old Reynold  Buono, who’s free on bail while awaiting trial in Massachusetts, according to the University of Maine System. The senior college’s board severed connections with him immediately...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Several lawsuits filed by former students who allege rampant abuse at a now-shuttered boarding school were settled this year for undisclosed amounts. Other lawsuits are pending. Three lawsuits against the Eagleton School, its founder and former director Bruce Bona, as well as staff, have settled with former students of the school for boys ages 9 to 22 with emotional, behavioral and cognitive disabilities. Two suits are pending — one in U.S. District Court in Springfield, the other in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. In two cases, settled in federal court, the for...