Browse past news stories for Amigos School in Cambridge, MA.

• How does your garden grow? Garden program spreads through Cambridge Public Schools (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 03:12:04 pm
  The nature scene of Walden Pond that Thoreau witnessed on an excursion when he was 4 years old imprinted itself in his mind, and later was part of what inspired him to return to the same spot as an adult and “clothe that fabulous landscape of my infant dreams” with his own bean leaves and potato vines. CitySprouts, a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization, has a similar idea: to inspire kids to ...
• Retiring Stanley Elementary School principal honored (The Daily News Tribune)
  posted on June 22, 2009 at 03:38:12 am
  What was supposed to be the annual student assembly at Stanley Elementary School turned into schoolwide celebration for retiring Principal Marcia Pertuz on Friday.
• Cambridge to hold annual Memorial Day parade (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
  posted on May 18, 2009 at 12:32:34 pm
  The Cambridge Veterans’ Organization (CVO) and Cambridge Veterans’ Services will hold their Memorial Day parade and observance Monday, May 25.
• Guest commentary: Every day is Earth Day in the school garden (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
  posted on April 23, 2009 at 08:07:44 pm
  When Michelle Obama and a group of fifth graders from the Bancroft Elementary School recently dug up some of the White House lawn for a vegetable garden, the First Lady explained, “My hope is that children will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, educate our communities.”
• Candidates Vie to Head City Schools (The Harvard Crimson)
  posted on March 31, 2009 at 05:42:35 am
  Parents, teachers, and administrators crowded into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School cafeteria to meet the three final candidates for Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent in a town hall meeting last night.
• Stanley Elementary School Principal Marcia Pertuz will retire (The Daily News Tribune)
  posted on March 31, 2009 at 03:28:40 am
  After close to three years working the top job at Stanley Elementary School, Principal Marcia Pertuz will retire at the end of the school year.
• CitySprouts gets fresh with school tasting events (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
  posted on March 23, 2009 at 09:38:26 am
  CitySprouts will be in school cafeterias at 10 schools in the next few weeks giving kids a taste of a variety of vegetables and herbs. During lunch, students in all grades will have a chance to try sugar-snap peas and snow peas, yellow and purple carrots, and a number of different herbs.