Braintree High School News
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- PHOTO GALLERY: Thanksgving football (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 30, 2009 at 11:12:46 pm
The Braintree High School Wamps defeated Milton 10 to 7 on Thanksgiving. Wicked Local staff photos/Tom Gorman - Braintree marks Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7 (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 28, 2009 at 07:00:19 pm
Retired General and Forum columnist John Carlson will be the guest speaker at the Braintree Department of Veterans’ Services’s annual Pearl Harbor Day remembrance ceremony. This event in honor of those who lost their lives on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “a day that will live in infamy” (Dec. 7, 1941) is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. in the Cahill Auditorium of town hall. - Boyle scores winning TD for Braintree, 10-7 (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 27, 2009 at 12:43:34 pm
It wasn’t that long ago that Milton High School was dominating the annual Thanksgiving Day football match up with archrival Braintree High School. The Wildcats had taken the lead in the long series by winning 12 of 13 games from 1989 through 2001, but the Turkey Day rivalry has since swung back Braintree’s way, thanks to the Wamps’ propensity for prevailing over Milton in close games on the ... - Joe Donovan does it all for Braintree gridders (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 27, 2009 at 12:43:34 pm
Welcome back Joe Donovan. Braintree High School won with their hard-nosed two-way play, but when he sustained a broken clavicle in the Wamps loss to Natick earlier this season, Braintree has been winless. When Donovan went down in Week 5 he was leading the team in rushing, receiving, TDs and interceptions. He returned to the lineup yesterday and scored the winning touchdown on a 23-yard run ... - Geehan off to great start for Fairfield women's basketball team (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 24, 2009 at 06:29:03 pm
Tonight, while most collegians from Braintree re-unite in town and tell about their campus adventures, Fairfield University senior Stephanie Geehan will be in New York, squaring off against St. Francis, the Stags’ women’s basketball team’s third game of the young season. Her parents are making the ride to the Big Apple to watch their daughter play and then they are going to make the long trek to ... - Braintree's Anson is an athlete for all seasons (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 24, 2009 at 06:28:54 pm
It has been a busy season for Braintree High School’s Matt Anson. He was an integral member of the Wamps football team, which wraps up its season with its annual Thanksgiving Day showdown with Milton on Thursday. However, it wasn’t his only athletic accomplishment this fall. Anson was a member of the South Boston Shamrocks, an under-6 Tier II Midget youth hockey team. Last weekend the Shamrocks ... - Abreu, Byrne fare well at State Swim Championships (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 24, 2009 at 06:28:43 pm
Braintree High School, which began the season without a coach, finish strong under interim coach Joan Brown. The Water Wamps had strong individual performances by senior Bernadette Byrne and freshman Sarah Abreu at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Associations Div. 1 State Swimming and Diving Championships last Saturday at the Blodgett Pool on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge. - Holiday house tour, boutique set for Dec. 6 in Braintree (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 24, 2009 at 02:30:19 pm
The 35 th annual house tour and holiday boutique hosted by the Braintree Gardeners’ Guild will take place on Dec. 6, with an open house sponsored by the Braintree board of trade following a week later. - Byrne is hot stuff for Braintree swim team (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:12:11 pm
It’s on to the State Championship for the Braintree High School swim team. Several Water Wamps competed last Saturday in the South Sectional Championship at MIT pool in Cambridge and did well enough to advance to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s championship, which will be held Nov. 28 at the Blodgett Pool on the Harvard University campus. The star of the meet for ... - The volleyball season had its ups and downs (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:12:01 pm
Like it was for all volleyball teams, a season is marked by peaks and valleys and there were more peaks than valleys for the Braintree High School girls’ volleyball team. For more of the year, before fatigue and injuries took their toll, the Lady Wamps were in the hunt for an unbeaten season and a Bay State Conference championship. But both those lofty goals fell by the wayside, which is what ... - Braintree gridders drop sixth straight, 48-20 (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:11:51 pm
Maybe, it was fitting that the final game the Braintree High School football team played before Thanksgiving took place on Friday the 13th. After all, these Wamps have had little luck and even less good fortune, and that didn’t change last Friday night at Weymouth High School’s Sgt. Jeffrey Mullin Field when BHS faced archrival Weymouth in a Bay State Conference Carey Division clash. Braintree ... - Swine flu vaccines eyed for Braintree students next month (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:06:47 pm
School officials are gearing up to vaccinate students against the H1N1 (or swine flu) virus. During the Nov. 9 school committee meeting, Superintendent of Schools Peter Kurzberg said that seasonal flu vaccinations were administered last month and the H1N1 shots would be given out once the town receives its allotment, tentatively set for early December. - Braintree father shares story of son’s opiate addiction to warn other parents (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 08:07:01 pm
Bill Brids was at work one day two years ago.The telephone rang. It was a call that would shatter his life forever. “Mr. Brids, this is the Braintree police. We have arrested your son David for drugs. We are about to search your house.” This call began a nightmare for the widowed father of two teenagers, a nightmare in which he has committed his son for treatment three times, a nightmare in ... - Braintree gridders drop fifth straight (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 12, 2009 at 03:58:22 pm
As this Braintree High School football season heads into its final two games, it’s hard not to wonder what kind of season this might have been for the Wamps had injuries not taken so many key players out of the lineup at an unprecedented rate. We know what the reality of the season has been. Braintree has now lost five straight games, the longest losing streak for BHS since a winless 1999 season ... - Braintree girls' soccer team ousted (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 12, 2009 at 03:43:30 pm
BULLETIN: Whitman Hanson eliminated Braintree. More details in next week's Forum. The last time Braintree High School’s girls’ soccer team advanced to the post-season, they won the whole thing, sectionals, regionals and states. That was three years ago. The Lady Wamps are back, but how far they go is another matter. They took the first step in the right direction on Saturday beating New Bedford ... - Veterans tell Braintree High School students about service (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 9, 2009 at 09:08:27 pm
Two days before the national holiday honoring them and everyone who has worn the uniform of the United States, local veterans, past and present, took part in an all-day event at Braintree High School and provided students in social studies classes with personal accounts of their service. - Braintree girls' soccer team advances in Div. 1 South Sectionals (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 8, 2009 at 03:13:42 pm
Playing in the MIAA South Division 1 preliminary round, Braintree High School girls’ soccer team went on to beat New Bedford, 2-0, and advance to the quarterfinals. New Bedford (8-5-4) couldn't capitalize on any of their scoring threats as Braintree goalie Danielle Maguire kept deflecting away each and every shot the Whalers took, recording 13 saves in the game and helping to send the Whalers ... - Braintree boys soccer team ousted in shoot out (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 8, 2009 at 03:13:22 pm
Braintree High School’s boys’ soccer team pulled out a miracle finish to qualify for the MIAA Div. 1 South Sectionals, but the Wamps fell in the first round in overtime to King Philip Regional of Wrentham Saturday afternoon. But they didn’t go easily. After playing to a 1-1 tie in regulation and overtime, Braintree lost in the game-deciding shootout, 2-1. - Braintree qualifies! Plays at King Philip on Saturday (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:59:30 pm
Mission accomplished! Braintree qualifies for tournament. Plays at King Philip Regional in Wrentham (10-5-3) on Saturday at 3 p.m. Braintree High School boys’ soccer coach Gary Burke has a single wish going into yesterday’s non-league game against Norwell. “I just want to go into Wednesday’s game (against) with a chance of making the tournament,” said Burke. But to make the tournament, he ... - Lady Wamps are going to the Big Dance! Play New Bedford on Saturday (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:59:19 pm
Braintree was the final team to qualify for the state tournament and will played at New Bedford (8-4-4) on Saturday at 6 p.m. Braintree High School’s girls’ soccer, after a two-year hiatus, is back in the post-season. The Lady Wamps earn their way into the Div. 1 South Sectional Championship on Monday by playing highly regarded Wellesley to a 2-2 tie on the road. The victory improved Braintree ... - Powers to join Dingee, Ryan as Braintree councilors at large (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 05:32:59 pm
Leland Dingee of 211 Glenrose Ave. and Charles Ryan of 24 Conrad St., the president and vice president of the town council, have won a second two-year term. Sean Powers of 29 Frederick Rd., the chairman of the school committee, joined Dingee and Ryan in winning the three councilor at large seats on the Nov. 3 ballot. - BRAINTREE GIRLS SOCCER: Lady Wamps going to Dance (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 3, 2009 at 08:59:11 pm
Braintree High School’s girls’ soccer, after a two-year hiatus, is back in the post-season. The Lady Wamps earned their way into the Div. 1 South Sectional Championship on Monday by playing highly regarded Wellesley to a 2-2 tie on the road. - Renovated Braintree high school auditorium rededicated (Braintree Forum)
posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:02:58 pm
An estimated 300 people attended an Oct. 28 rededication ceremony to mark the completion of the renovation of the Grabosky Auditorium at Braintree High School. “It was a wonderful community event,” said Superintendent of Schools Peter Kurzberg, who explained that the auditorium continues to be named in honor of the late Margherita A. Grabosky, a member of the school committee during the 1970s ... - 8 running for three at-large seats on Braintree council (The Patriot Ledger)
posted on October 31, 2009 at 12:24:24 am
- Six seek school committee seats in Braintree (The Patriot Ledger)
posted on October 31, 2009 at 12:09:25 am
Brief profiles of the six candidates for school committee in Tuesday’s election. - Braintree voters to decide three races for district councilor (The Patriot Ledger)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:54:24 pm
There are races for three of the six district seats on the town council. Each pits an incumbent against a first-time council candidate. The winners will be elected to two-year terms. - Cheer madness in Walpole (The Walpole Times)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 12:51:03 am
The Walpole High cheerleaders prepare for another exciting competition season while the youth teams clean up in Lowell. - Renovated school auditorium dedicated in Braintree (The Patriot Ledger)
posted on October 29, 2009 at 07:09:34 am
Braintree High School newly renovated auditorium has new seats and upgraded lighting and sound systems. The proceeds from fundraising covered part of the costs. - Braintree volleyball varsity prepares for state tournament (Braintree Forum)
posted on October 28, 2009 at 06:32:07 pm
Braintree High School’s varsity volleyball team is ready for the upcoming Div. 1 South Sectional Championship, which will begin with first-round action next week and continue until the sectional championship, Nov. 15 and the state finals on Nov. 21. The Lady Wamps, with a sterling 15-3 overall mark and a 14-2 record in the Bay State Conference, should get a good seed in the championship. - There is no joy in Mudville for Braintree gridders (Braintree Forum)
posted on October 28, 2009 at 06:32:00 pm
It was just three weeks ago that a relatively healthy Braintree High School football team sported a .500 record with all four games decided by seven points or less. The Wamps, after four consecutive 5-6 seasons, were in the hunt for the school’s first winning record since 2004. Now, that seems like it was years ago rather than weeks ago.