Former New England Patriot Matt Light is running for a seat on the town school committee, saying that the pandemic made him realize “that our ability to live free and make our own decisions isn’t guaranteed.”
Ex-Norton man's young son is teased after wearing nail polish to school. Some people take to Twitter in show of support.
@SCNortonMa
#NortonMA
@DaddyFiles
Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey and his office are “targets” of a federal investigation over their prosecution of Karen Read, a lawyer for the
#Mansfield
woman said during a hearing Thursday.
The new track at
#Norton
High School will be named after longtime coach and teacher Kent Taylor, who is battling cancer. A dedication ceremony is being held today at 5 p.m. at the track at Adams Field. The event will be held rain or shine.
The Bishop Feehan High School girls' soccer team banded together to sell bracelets in support of a fellow classmate and hockey player injured in a game and now undergoing rehabilitation in Georgia, raising nearly $32,000.
@BishopFeehanHS
The 183 graduating students at
#NortonMA
High School were urged by several different speakers to live in the present while cherishing every moment during the school’s 114th commencement ceremony on Saturday morning at the high school.
@NortonHS
The premiere rink at New England Sports Village in
#AttleboroMA
will be renamed "AJ Quetta Rink" in honor of the Bishop Feehan hockey player injured in a game earlier this year.
After a day’s postponement due to inclement weather, 257 Bishop Feehan High School graduates received their diplomas on Friday night, with their classmate A.J. Quetta in their midst.
A coach delivered an angry, profanity-laced speech to members of the
#NorthAttleboroMA
High School’s varsity baseball squad last spring in what one parent is complaining was an abuse of the players.
The
#NortonMA
school district is among a dozen nationwide to earn a top award for their efforts to break down barriers for underserved students.
@NortonSchools
What began as an ad hoc group to help Bishop Feehan High School hockey player A.J. Quetta, who suffered a severe injury in a game last week, has become a fixture dedicated to supporting him and his family.
@BishopFeehanHS
.
#NortonMA
is showing its support for Detective Sgt. Stephen Desfosses and his family, with police cruisers and fire vehicles driving by his home with lights and sirens and residents displaying blue lights in their homes.
@NortonMaPolice
A.J. Quetta, 18, the Bishop Feehan High School hockey player who suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a game early this year says his goal is to walk again, and he is determined to reach it.
@BishopFeehanHS
COLUMN: Peter Gobis has been a familiar face for generations of
#AttleboroMA
area players and their parents, attending between 10,000 to 15,000 local high school games over the past 5 decades.
For Tyler Holske, a former goalkeeper for the Bishop Feehan High School hockey team, every day, seven days a week, begins and ends at the rink. “I knew as soon as I was done playing that I wanted to get into coaching,” Holske said.
A.J. Quetta left Massachusetts General Hospital Tuesday morning to his next step in treatment under the raised hockey sticks of his Bishop Feehan High School teammates.
@BishopFeehanHS
The friendly rivalry between the hockey teams of Bishop Feehan and North Attleboro took a different spin on the ice during Saturday night's fundraiser game at the New England Sports Village to benefit A.J. Quetta.
@BishopFeehanHS
Bishop Feehan High School and its hockey team are receiving — and sending out — prayers and messages of hope after player A.J. Quetta suffered what is being described as a “significant injury” Tuesday in a game in Springfield.
@BishopFeehanHS
Yelle Elementay School Principal Martin Geoghegan has been named Alumni Walker of the Year for his efforts to help the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk.
#NortonMA
@HAYSchoolNorton
Malia Jusczyk, a King Philip middle schooler from
#PlainvilleMA
who is also battling cancer, has won the title of Greatest Baker of 2021 in an online competition.
Three candidates for
#Attleboro
school committee who wanted to restrict student access to library books were handily defeated in the city election Tuesday.
Nearly seven years after his death, the irrepressible spirit of Sam Berns was palpable last week as a drug treatment for
#progeria
, the rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging, won approval from the federal Food & Drug Administration.
Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School has delivered medical supplies to facilities in need of personal protection equipment, including
@SturdyMemorial
, in light of the
#coronavirus
pandemic.
@TriCountyRVTSD
Norton High School teacher Kimberly Birkett isn't personally worried about the health risks of returning but she empathizes with those who are. "I’ve just tried to focus on the people supporting teachers and who understand that this is new to all of us.”
The strong-armed Tyler Kropis took the bats right out of the hands of Abington High Sunday, working a 98-pitch masterpiece as the Warriors went home with their first state baseball championship in a dominating 5-0 verdict over the Green Wave.
@SeekonkHS
Chris Strynar, 16, of
#NortonMA
is an 11th grader but has been taking college-level math courses at
#Harvard
University Extension School &
@wheaton
College for 3 years. He’ll receive a bachelor's degree with a major in math and a minor in computer science.
A
#PlainvilleMA
call firefighter battling
#COVID
-19 has been moved out of intensive care at a Boston hospital and “is on the road to recovery,” according to his family.
@plainvillefd
NEWS NOW: A Bishop Feehan High School hockey player seriously injured in a game Tuesday night, underwent “successful surgery” Wednesday night at Massachusetts General Hospital, his family says.
@BishopFeehanHS
Former New England Patriot linebacker and local resident Tedy Bruschi has two words for anyone thinking of running the Boston Marathon course Monday: Stay home.
The lead state police detective in the closely-watched murder case against Karen Read, the
#Mansfield
woman accused of running over her police officer boyfriend with her SUV, is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, state police confirmed.
Injured Bishop Feehan H.S. senior hockey player A.J. Quetta has started his rehabilitation work at Journey Forward in Canton after spending more than three months at the Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta.
@BishopFeehanHS
Dylan Desrosiers, 17, has kept himself busy during the coronavirus pandemic using 3D printers to fabricate clear plastic face shields and donating them to medical personnel and first responders.
Via
@AboroPrincipal
: National law-enforcement appreciation today. AHS is proud to have Officer Romaniuk assigned by the
@AttleboroPolice
to help keep our school safe. The fact that she is an AHS graduate makes her even more of a role model!
@SCAttleboro
Six Attleboro kids have been building their own little town, Dirtopia, for more than three months while the outside world is engaged in what seems to be neverending tumult, turmoil and trouble.
.
#SeekonkMA
High’s Jayla Pina, representing Cape Verde, made her Tokyo
#Olympics
debut in the 100 meter breaststroke Sunday by capturing third place in her heat at 1:16.96.
@SeekonkHS
Kristine Kefor has been named principal of Amvet Boulevard School in
#NorthAttleboroMA
as officials work quickly to fill vacant administrative positions with the fast approaching start of the school year.
@SCNAttleboro
@amvet_school
.
#NortonMA
Police and a regional behavioral health agency are expanding a program to help individuals with mental health and substance abuse problems get help rather than sending them to jail.
@NortonMaPolice
.
#NortonMA
police this week came to the aid of an elderly man, helping him with housing and services after he had fallen on hard times.
@NortonMaPolice
Karyn Picard, a third-grade teacher at Falls School, has been given the Distinguished Service Award as the Outstanding Educator of the Year by the North Attleboro-Plainville Rotary Club.
@NAttleboro
A boisterous, joyful car parade featuring beaming seniors in cap and gowns waving from cars festooned with balloons and congratulatory messages was held Sunday for
#MansfieldMA
High School’s class of 2020.
@MHShornets
@mansfield_ma
For the first time since 2016, the Bishop Feehan High girls' basketball team is bound for the state final, clinching an
#MIAA
Division 1 title bid with a 53-47 win over Woburn High on Monday night.
@BishopFeehanHS
The principal of Amvet Boulevard School in
#NorthAttleboro
has been picked as the new principal of Palmer River Elementary School in
#Rehoboth
. Kristine Kefor will assume her new post at the start of the new budget year in July.
During a baseball career that began as a boy in Plainville, gained traction at KP Regional HS and the University of Maine, and culminated in a stint with the Red Sox, Jeff Plympton threw thousands of pitches. He’s making a pitch of another kind now.