Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Board of Selectmen Meeting; School Committee Meeting; Student Tours of Stoughton High; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Board of Selectmen Meeting The Stoughton Board of Selectmen will meet Tuesday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall (third floor, Great Hall). Agenda items include a contract for Police Chief Paul Shastany; Town Manager Search Committee update; and a continuation of the discussion about the deteriorating conditions at the Freeman St. Fire Station. The full agenda is posted in the media gallery and here: Agenda 08-28-12.pdf 2. School Committee Meeting The Stoughton School Committee meets in the TV studio at Stoughton High at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 28. Agenda items include a second reading of the wellness …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Teen Drivers to Get Crash Course on Distracted Driving This Week; Stoughton Resident Sent Down South to Help Area Prepare for Arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Teen Drivers to Get Crash Course on Distracted Driving This Week Teenage drivers will get a first-hand look at just how dangerous it is to text and drive, when The Arbella Insurance Foundation Distractology 101 tour rolls into Stoughton. Hardy Insurance Agency will be bringing the state-of-the-art Distractology 101 tour to Stoughton during the week of August 27-31. Distractology 101 is an interactive program developed by the Arbella Insurance Foundation to teach new drivers the dangers of distracted driving. The campaign features a 36-foot-long, neon-yellow mobile classroom outfitted with high-tech driving …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Stoughton Man Helping to Combat Homelessness and Poverty; Student Tours of Stoughton High; Bingo at the Senior Center; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Stoughton Man Part of 'Young Professionals Board' Helping to Combat Homelessness and Poverty Christopher Vasquez of Stoughton, a senior tax analyst with Old Mutual, has been named to the "Young Professionals Board" for Solutions at Work, a Cambridge-based non-profit with the goal of breaking the "cycle of homelessness and poverty." "Since its founding in 1989, the organization has provided homeless and low-income people with resources, opportunities, and partners that are needed to achieve self-sufficiency," a press release states. "Recently, a new generation of community-like-minded professionals in their 20’s and…
Monday, August 20, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Will "Joe from Stoughton" Play a Role in Presidential Election?; High School Fall Sports Preseason Starts This Week; Student Tours of Stoughton High; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Will "Joe from Stoughton" Play a Role in Presidential Election? The 2008 presidential election had "Joe the Plumber." The 2012 race might have "Joe from Stoughton." A man who identified himself as "Joe from Stoughton" called into the Nightside with Dan Rea show on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 back in October of 2010, asking the guest, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, about the $787 billion stimulus package. Ryan was (and still is) a vocal critic of the stimulus package. “I assume you voted against the stimulus and I’m just curious if you accepted any money in your district,” Joe from Stoughton asked Congressman Ryan, who is …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Stoughton Teen Fundraising for Eagle Scout Project to Beautify Park; Board of Selectmen Meeting; Student Tours of Stoughton High; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Stoughton Teen Fundraising for Eagle Scout Project to Beautify Park Stoughton Boy Scout Adam Lurie is selling personalized bricks to help fundraise for his Eagle Scout Project - erecting a flag pole at Frederick H. Pye Memorial Park at the intersection of Central and Canton Streets in Stoughton. The bricks will be placed in a circle around the flag pole. The bricks are $35 each, Lurie said. There are three lines at 18 characters per line available for customization. For those interested in purchasing a brick or helping Lurie with his fundraising efforts, call him at 781-341-3875. The cutoff for ordering a brick is …
Monday, August 13, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Stoughton Gets $175K Towards Possible Purchase of Train Station; Share a Haircut; Tickets Sold Out for Ice Cream Social; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Stoughton Gets $175K Towards Possible Purchase of Train Station in State's Transportation Bond Bill In case you missed this over the weekend... If the town decides to purchase the Stoughton Train Station, which has recently been put up for sale by the MBTA, it will receive some financial assistance from the state. Governor Deval Patrick signed the $1.5 billion transportation bond bill on Thursday, August 9, which funds a variety of road, bridge and rail projects across the state. This includes $175,000 in matching grant funds to the Town of Stoughton for the purpose of purchasing or refurbishing the old MBTA …
Stevie Albert
8:39 pm on Monday, August 27, 2012
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