EDUCATION UPDATE

Sept. 6: Labor Day holiday, no classes. Sept. 9: PTO meeting 6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 10: 9/11 Memorial assembly at 8:30 a.m. Also, Big Bird Read-A-Thon monies are due.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR U?

Although a bit too warm, Tuesday in Fitchburg was a pretty ordinary day in many respects as freshmen nervously settled into their dorms off North Street and began the routines that mark their first steps into public higher education.

Judge presses students to succeed

"You are each a unique creation," Judge Raymond Bolden recently told the National Hook-Up of Black Women's Passport and Junior Hook-Up Program . "There will never be anyone just like you." Bolden's encouraged the group of 30 students to finish each level of education and to make good choices in life. Passport to Success meets the second and fourth Saturdays of the month at the Unity CDC ...

Congressional candidates at odds over debate format

Yes, there apparently will be debates between 4th District Congressman Peter DeFazio and his Republican challenger Art Robinson, but not at Robinson campaign appearances in Eugene, Roseburg, Brookings, North Bend, Corvallis, Albany and Grants Pass, as Robinson has advertised. And not in the format Robinson insists on. Robinson, in advertisements for Tuesday’s appearance at Brookings, said there ...

New Jersey schools, parents find ways to cope with budget cuts

With the first day of class still weeks away, Danielle Bannon and four other mothers from Glassboro's J. Harvey Rodgers School interrupted their summer for a brainstorming session.