selected: The boston globe 2008–2012
Medfield Owners Are Touched by House’s Past …Ghostly or Not
This is what a “haunted’’ house really looks like. It is no creaky old manse on a hill, but a charming red two-story in the woodsy town of Medfield, an unassuming Greek Revival adorned with a simple wooden sign on its exterior. The sign says that a Medfield carriage maker built this place in 1845. The people who live there now say it may be home to ghosts.
Loving Walden, But Not to Death
The protectors of Walden Pond want one thing: to make certain that the hundreds of acres around the glacial kettle hole widely viewed as the birthplace of the conservation movement live up to that reputation.
Metco Students, Parents Upset by School Cutbacks
School officials in Lincoln and Sudbury voted last week to merge two of their three Metco programs, a cost-saving measure that has angered Boston students and parents who say they were excluded from the process and are worried about the future of the program. Metco, a nonprofit organization that buses city students to suburban classrooms, is designed to give minority urban youth access to strong schools and to create a more racially diverse student body.
Uncertainty at Club for Mentally Ill: State Cuts Begin to Take Their Toll on Services, Hours
At the Point After Club, and at 31 other clubhouses run by various providers in the state, members relearn social interaction and develop the skills they need for employment after what are often years of isolation and hospitalization. However, in the wake of $1 million in cuts to clubhouse budgets across the state, the club has had to shut down on Sundays and cut two full-time staff positions.
In MFA Wall, Clues to Build On
For decades, it was a secret encased in brick and plaster, undetected by the thousands who passed by each year. Then on June 4, a laborer working on construction of the new American Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts knocked a hole in a wall and saw an envelope sticking out of the rubble.
Oysters Should Love That Dirty Water: Mollusks' Return May Help Clean Charles River
They were trundled north from their nursery in Duxbury - 150,000 of them rattling in crates - to the banks of the Charles River with a singular purpose: to eat sewage. Measuring roughly an inch from tip to tip of their rose-and-ash gray shells, these oysters are the vanguard of a water pollution cleanup project launched yesterday by the Massachusetts Oyster Project.