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Reminder: Wiffle Ball Tournament to Benefit Families of Newtown Shooting Victims
There will be a charity tournament this weekend. People of all ages welcome to participate.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wiffle Ball Tournament to Benefit Families of Newtown Shooting Victims
Everyone of all ages and ability invited to participate.
A team manager from the NE Cal Ripken Regional Tournament, which this year was held in Burlington last summer, is organizing a charity wiffle ball game in Woburn to benefit the victim's fund for the families of the victims of the Newtown shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Mike Winn informed Patch that he was organizing the game in the wake of the tragedy. He said that for the past four years players from Newtown have taken part in the tournament and he and many other members have come to now the players and coaches and wanted to help the community. "This past summer Burlington hosted an All Star team from Newtown, Conn during the 12 Year Old Cal Ripken Regional Baseball Tournament," Winn said. "The BBSA would like to show our support for…
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Friday, December 28, 2012
TELL US: Should Licensed Gun Owners' Information be Public?
If you are licensed to own a gun, do you care if your name and address are publicized?
A news publication in New York is under scrutiny for publishing the names and addresses of gun owners in certain parts of the state. Less than two weeks after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., the New York Journal News earlier this week published the names and addresses of local gun owners in three New York counties. A story titled, "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood," highlights the names and addresses of residents who are licensed to own handguns. The information was obtained through Freedom of Information Law requests, according to The Huffington Post. The Journal News reportedly requested the information from New York's Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, though the …
Friday, December 21, 2012
Woburn Bell Will Toll for Newtown Victims
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy asks nation to observe moment of silence today to memorialize the Newtown school shooting victims.
It has been one week since the lives of 26 children and adults were taken in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. As people all over the world grapple with the tragic events of Dec. 14, America's churches hope to provide some solace this morning. Woburn's North Congregational Church on Main Street will ring its bell 26 times at 9:30 a.m. in honor of the victims. Along with the church located in the center of the city, churches all across the country will chime in. Rev. Marian Williams said the parish will "pray for [the victims'] families, friends, and the entire Newtown community." "The people of Newtown won't hear our bell here in Woburn, but across the country, bells like ours will be tolling in harmony and …
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Superintendent Visited Schools To Check In With Staff
After Friday's school shooting in Connecticut, Superintendent Mark Donovan visited the schools Monday "because it seemed like the thing to do."
Superintendent of Schools Mark Donovan took time Monday to visit each of the city's public schools "because it seemed like the thing to do" after Friday's school shooting in Newtown, CT. Supt. Donovan checked in with each building's faculty and staff, and reported that elementary school students did not broach the subject of the Newtown shooting. The superintendent's complete statement regarding Monday in Woburn follows: Today, I had the pleasure of visiting all of our elementary schools to check in with principals and some staff members. I also took the opportunity to stop by our first-grade classrooms, just because it seemed like the thing to do. Principals all reported that their teachers were well prepared for the day, but that …
U.S. Postal Services Sets Up Newtown PO Box
A special post office box has been established for those wishing to send condolences to Newtown, CT.
The following text was provided by the U.S. Postal Service. NEWTOWN, CT—The U.S. Postal Service has established a unique Post Office Box to allow the public to send condolences to those affected by the tragedy in Newtown CT last week. Those who wish to send expressions of comfort should address them to: Messages of Condolence for Newtown PO Box 3700 Newtown, CT 06470 “We understand that there is an outpouring of support for everyone in the Newtown area and we hope to make it easier for those who wish to send encouragement and messages of compassion to those affected,” said Kimberly J. Peters, Connecticut Valley District Manager for the U.S. Postal Service, adding, “Through letters and cards, families will be able to hold that friendship …
VIDEO: Krafts to Donate $25K to Newtown; Patriots Remember Victims
Patriots President Jonathan Kraft told media Sunday The Kraft Group and his family will be donating $25,000 to those affected by the Newtown tragedy. On Sunday, the Patriots honored the 26 victims of the school shooting with a special moment of silence.
New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft told 98.5 The Sports Hub Sunday the Kraft family and Kraft Group will be donating $25,000 to help those affected by last Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Conn. that took the lives of 26, people, including 20 elementary school children. “Your heart just sinks and you get nauseous and you never would expect anything like that would ever happen [in Newtown] … it’s just horrible,” Jonathan Kraft said. … “Our family [and] the Kraft Group donated some money and we encourage other people who are in a position to do that to do it.” Friday’s tragedy hit close to the Kraft family because of a box company they own in Newtown with a factory less than two miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School. “We’ve run a…
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Massachusetts to Newtown: Share Your Love
Help Patch build a huge virtual card to the Newtown, CT community and let them know they are in your heart and on your mind.
“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” – The Dalai Lama When unthinkable tragedy strikes, we grapple for a way to come to terms with the how and the why. We search for ways to make sense of what happened, even when it doesn't make sense. The horrific shooting that took place at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT on Friday, Dec. 14, stunned a nation as the news broke that not one child, but 20, six- and seven-year-old children and six of their teachers had been shot and killed by a gunman who then took his own life. Most communities can only begin to imagine sorrow …
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Friday, December 14, 2012
26, Gunman Dead in Connecticut School Shooting
Local and state police in Newtown, Conn. were called to an elementary school at about 9:30 this morning after a gunman allegedly opened fire at the school.
NEWTOWN, CT -- Connecticut police said Friday afternoon that 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at an elementary school after a gunman opened fire. Another adult was killed at a second location. The Scene Police in Newtown were called to the Sandy Hook School at about 9:30 a.m. after receiving a 911 call Friday morning. Authorities said the gunman was found dead inside the school. He was reportedly armed with four guns and a high-powered assault rifle. Authorities said during a press conference that they have retrieved three weapons from the scene. A parent interviewed on CBS News told the network on Friday that his 8-year-old daughter said she heard an argument and cursing over the school’s loudspeaker, apparently coming …
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Dr. Paul Anderson
2:01 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Speaking of Guns, my vintage 1930's Ithaca side by side just arrived home, after some minor repairs completed by an Ithaca Gun Smith, in N.Y.State. Guns brings back some 57 years of wonderful memories with friends and families members, many of which have long since passed away. Memories that these Gun hating Communists in Washington, will do their best to erase from the American Landscape,in an … more ›
dan
6:41 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The patch e-mail new is concerned how many people exercise their 2nd amendment rights while they leave the medial alone who exploit the 1st amendment. For instance, according to Retired Colonel Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano, who wrote the book “Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill,” there have been over (5,000) five thousands studies showing a causal relationship that TV and media cause violence. … more ›