Category: Waltham Times
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Growing demand drives major library renovation project
Art from Waltham Public Schools brightens the library walls. Photo by Elizabeth Mehler. Lifetime resident Mary Coughlan has been going to the Waltham Public Library since childhood, a tradition that began with her mother’s encouragement. “I got my first library…
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School leadership, performance get City Council committee’s attention
The high turnover of principals in Waltham schools and the high school’s low score on a state education report card dominated discussion at the City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night. Superintendent Marisa Mendonsa gave committee members an…
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City Council in brief: Future economic recovery options for Route 128 corridor
The City Council’s Economic and Community Development Committee voted to request that the mayor fund a new economic development manager position in the next city budget. It also requested the clerk’s office compile job descriptions for business managers in neighboring…
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Potter Place inspires confidence, purpose for people with mental health conditions
Ruth Torres, 55, has been showing up to Potter Place Clubhouse in Waltham four days a week for nearly three decades — not just to pass the time, but to build new skills, from math to French, with the help of staff…
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In MA, Doctors’ Day becomes rallying point for health care reform
While Doctors’ Day has traditionally celebrated physicians’ contributions — specically the date of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery by Dr. Crawford W. Long on March 30, 1842 — this year Massachusetts physicians are redefining it as a…
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Diamond Middle School students escape bus fire
About 60 William Diamond Middle School students and staff evacuated a charter bus in Woodstock, NH Friday night after one student noticed something disturbing: the smell of smoke. Within minutes, the vehicle was engulfed in flames. The students were headed…
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Lexington High School senior signs with professional ultimate Frisbee team
Ultimate Frisbee player Max Coe / Courtesy: Max Coe Lexington High School senior Max Coe has signed with the Boston Glory, a professional ultimate Frisbee team, the team announced March 3. During his four years at Lexington, Coe played for…