New water meters in Bulington
The town will soon begin replacing all its residential and commercial water meters. Funded through two separate Town Meeting authorizations, the $3 million project is designed to improve the accuracy of the town’s readings. Officials say some of the town’s water usage is currently going unrecorded due to faulty readings by some of its aged meters. The new meters ... Boston Globe, 12/26/09
Residents vie for living room makeover
Most people would be severely insulted if their living room were called “ugly.’’ Not Adele Dean of Melrose. Globe Correspondent, 12/26/09
King, Bowman ignite Babson’s hoop start
With former Framingham High star Kathleen King and former Arlington Catholic High standout Becky Bowman of Melrose producing stellar play, the Babson College women’s basketball team is off to a 7-2 start. Boston Globe, 12/26/09
Learning can be taught
"Students go to school not only to learn a subject, but to learn how to learn." -- Jeff Waters Boston Globe, 12/23/09
Buy a camera at Hunt’s, support spinal injury group
David Estrada suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident. A Northeastern University student at the time, he went on to graduate from college, earn a law degree, and become executive director of the Spinal Cord Injury Association. Boston Globe, 12/23/09
New year, same tough challenges for region’s mayors
As they look ahead to the new year, winners of last month’s local mayoral elections say that helping their cities survive the tough fiscal times will be a top priority for them. Globe Correspondent, 12/23/09
Immigrants transforming Malden anew
MALDEN - At J&R market on Salem Street, the shelves are stocked with Kenyan tea, Nigerian flour, and Mexican cactuses. The public library boasts a collection of 2,000 books in Chinese, 10 times the count a decade ago. French classes, fading elsewhere, are thriving at Malden High School as Haitian families have poured into the city. Globe Staff, 12/23/09