Category: GottaKnowMedford
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Medford third-grader’s idea becomes school newspaper at Roberts Elementary School
The student newspaper at the Roberts Elementary School began not with a curriculum change, but with a third grader who decided the school should have one. Owen Jette Walsh, 10, proposed the idea during the final week of third grade…
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Medford’s Edify Church drive provides clothing for community, exposure for church
Sweaters, coats, dresses, shoes and bags line the walls, shelves and tables of the basement of a building on High Street. Although the selection features gently used items as well as clothing with the tags still attached, it is not…
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Medford firefighters say they are fed up with mice and mold in station
Medford firefighters are fed up with their station. Citing rodents, bugs, and mold in the Main Street headquarters — where they eat, sleep, and live almost as much as their own homes — they’re asking for help from city officials,…
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Medford School Committee adopts AI policy, with more changes ahead
The Medford School Committee voted 6–1 Monday to adopt a new artificial intelligence policy for classroom use, formally approving guidelines that the district had already published in this year’s student handbook. The guidelines don’t explicitly ban students from using AI…
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Buy a record, eat a sandwich, hear a band at Boston Music Awards-nominated Medford venue Deep Cuts
There’s a time machine just north of the Mystic Valley Parkway, right where you hit Medford Square. It looks like a bar, but it’s actually part record store, concert hall, sandwich shop and pinball arcade. It’s everything you didn’t know…
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Medford School Committee reviews public feedback on reconfiguration; no public comment at Monday meeting
The Medford School Committee reviewed community feedback on a possible reconfiguration of the city’s elementary and middle schools Monday night, while no one from the public came forward to comment. The update advanced the district’s work on “Option 2,” a…
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KSAP: Medford High School student by day, rapper by night
One of the Boston Music Awards nominees can’t book any shows Sunday through Thursday — those are school nights. He promised his mom he’d make As and Bs, with a small exception for algebra. Kobe Saperstein is an 18-year-old Medford…