Browse past news stories for Holbrook Junior Senior High School in Holbrook, MA.

• H1NI clinic set for Dec. 12 in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:34:08 pm
  Holbrook held its first H1N1 (otherwise known as the swine flu) clinic earlier this week and is planning to hold another one early next month. This open clinic for Holbrook and Avon residents is scheduled for Dec. 12 from noon to 3 p.m. at Holbrook Junior/Senior High School. It will only be for the following priority risk groups: pregnant women; household contacts and caregivers of infants under ...
• Holbrook Junior/Senior High School seniors receive Adams Scholarships (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 09:19:14 pm
  Thanks to a state scholarship, 10 Holbrook Junior/Senior High School students will be attending four years of college for free. These students have been awarded the state Department of Education’s John and Abigail Adams Scholarship that provides eight semesters of free tuition to a state college or university. Channon Barnes, Andrew Curreri, Leanne Day, Wayne Franklin, Tracy Gomes, Nicole Kirby ...
• Kids doing their part for the Holbrook community (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 04:02:15 pm
  Even though Holbrook Junior/Senior High School doesn’t have a music teacher this year, some students and a few of their parents haven’t let that stop them from performing their upcoming holiday concert at the school.  They will also perform at Holbrook’s 31 st annual Christmas tree lighting celebration on Dec. 15.
• Holbrook Junior/Senior High School is emergency dispensing site (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 11:00:17 pm
  Holbrook Junior/Senior High School has been designated as an emergency dispensing site for residents of Holbrook and Avon. Holbrook Emergency Management Director Richard Rouse told the board of selectmen on Oct. 30 that Holbrook and the school department have signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the junior/senior high school to be utilized as an emergency dispensing site for medicine or ...
• Poker club coming to Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 09:00:31 pm
  A proposed poker club is playing its hand in Holbrook. The board of selectmen threw its support on Oct. 30 behind the South Shore Poker Club to hold tournaments in town that would benefit a number of local charities, including veterans’ programs. President Paul Anastasio explained that his non-profit club is planning to hold the tournaments at 27 Maple Ave. and a “soft opening” is planned for ...
• Fundraising still needed in Holbrook for Wreathes Across America (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 08:15:26 pm
  Fundraising needs to be a little jollier if every deceased veteran’s gravesite at the Wendell and Holbrook Union Cemeteries is to be adorned with a wreath for this holiday season. Dwight Nelson, Holbrook’s coordinator for Wreathes Across America, Inc., a nationally recognized non-profit organization that sponsors simultaneously held wreath laying ceremonies as a way of promoting veterans ...
• Mary Gainey of Holbrook honored for academic excellence (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 07:45:17 pm
  Mary Gainey, a senior at Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical High School, was recently awarded two scholarships from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. One of the scholarships was the 2008 Rensselaer medal award for excellence in mathematics and science, and the other was the Paul and Kathleen Severino scholarship for women who excel in academics.
• Baeta named permanent school superintendent in Holbrook (The Brockton Enterprise)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 05:25:29 pm
  Joseph Baeta’s dual role as Holbrook Junior/Senior High School principal and superintendent of schools will continue on a lasting basis. Last week, the school committee unanimously voted to appoint Baeta as the permanent superintendent of Holbrook’s public schools. This appointment is officially effective on July 1.
• Baeta named permanent school superintendent in Holbrook (The Patriot Ledger)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 05:24:50 pm
  Joseph Baeta’s dual role as Holbrook Junior/Senior High School principal and superintendent of schools will continue on a lasting basis. Last week, the school committee unanimously voted to appoint Baeta as the permanent superintendent of Holbrook’s public schools. This appointment is officially effective on July 1.
• School Notebook: all Holbrook public schools closed on Nov. 11 (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 08:48:01 pm
  All Holbrook public schools will be closed on Nov. 11 in observance of Veterans Day. The schools will also have an early release day on Nov. 25 and be closed on Nov. 26 and 27 for Thanksgiving vacation.
• Tiant strives to strike out reckless driving in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 10:04:54 pm
  Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti joined forces with legendary Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant on Oct. 21 to visit Holbrook Junior/Senior High School and present a new educational tool designed to help teenagers hone their math and physics skills while simultaneously teaching them about the dangers of driving recklessly.
• News roundup for week of Sept. 29 (Whitman Times)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 01:05:25 am
  Events of note in our communities from last week
• Holbrook Junior/Senior High School searched for drugs (The Patriot Ledger)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 01:12:55 pm
  In a continuing effort to keep narcotics out of the schools, Holbrook Junior/Senior High School was locked down and searched for drugs twice last week. Interim Superintendent of Schools Joseph Baeta said that the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Department conducted an extensive search of the school on Sept. 23 and again two days later. Fourteen police officers and eight dogs converged on the school and ...
• Holbrook School Notebook: Spirit Week builds up to Oct. 3 Homecoming (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 06:17:06 pm
  Students at Holbrook Junior/Senior High School have participated in Spirit Week activities all week long, leading up to the festivities set for Homecoming on Oct. 3.
• Alternative high school plan eyed in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on September 16, 2009 at 10:26:50 pm
  School officials are considering a proposal to team to offer an alternative high school program to reduce the dropout rate. During the school committee’s Sept. 9 meeting, interim Superintendent of Schools Joseph Baeta discussed teaming with Massasoit Community College in Brockton where 11 th or 12 th grade students at risk of dropping out would attend for two years and then return to the ...
• Holbrook School Notebook: smooth openings on Sept. 2 (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 08:13:33 pm
  All three Holbrook public schools had “smooth openings” on their first day back to school on Sept. 2, said interim Superintendent of Schools and Holbrook Junior/Senior High School Principal Joseph Baeta.
• Holbrook sisters co-directing ‘fairy tale mystery’ play (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 06:58:27 pm
  Sisters Ashley, 23, and Brittany Grover, 20, will be calling the shots when they debut as directors for the children’s play, “Holka Polka: A Fairy Tale Mystery.” The Stars Community Theatre production will take place at the United Church of Christ in Canton Nov. 13 through 15.
• Vinnie Hayward: new dean of students at Holbrook High School (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 07:24:44 pm
  A new position at Holbrook Junior/Senior High School this school year is being filled by a familiar face. Vinnie Hayward is the dean of students in Grades 7-12. Hayward, who has worked in the school for the past nine years as the physical education teacher for all grades, has also coached boys’ baseball and girls’ volleyball.
• 8 new superintendents to start south of Boston (Boston Globe)
  posted on August 29, 2009 at 08:09:25 pm
  The start of the school year is all about newness: new students and teachers, new clothing and supplies. And this year, in the suburbs south of Boston, it also means saying hello to eight new school superintendents.
• Gunderway and Kerr honored at Night Out Against Crime event (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on August 21, 2009 at 06:31:36 pm
  Holbrook police officer Eric Gunderway and Alan Kerr of Kerr Contracting were recently recognized at the National Night Out Against Crime event held in Brockton earlier this month. Gunderway and Kerr were singled out for their contributions to the community.
• Clerks, Inc. opens on Plymouth St. in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 09:37:16 pm
  Clerks, Inc., the new variety store at 247A Plymouth St., wants to save its neighbors a trip to the chain grocery stores by catering to their needs. That’s what owners and brothers Dan and Mike Austriano aspire to do at their business that opened on Aug. 8.
• Holbrook pianist Rolland Platteel finishes third in competition (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on August 5, 2009 at 02:50:22 pm
  Persistence and practice paid off for Rolland Platteel, 14, as he finished third in last month’s “Braintree’s Got Talent” talent show sponsored by the Thayer Public Library.
• Curtain is up for summer theater camp in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on July 15, 2009 at 01:22:41 pm
  Now in its fifth year, the summer theater camp sponsored by the Holbrook Junior/Senior High School Music Parents Group began on July 13. Students in kindergarten through the eighth grade can partake in the three-week camp, whose counselors are ninth graders and older.
• Brookville Food Pantry in Holbrook helps those in need (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on July 15, 2009 at 01:22:31 pm
  While reading a verse from the Bible, Michelle Yundt was inspired to do God’s work and help others in need, she said. The verse where Jesus says to Peter three times, “Feed my sheep,” got Yundt thinking that she should organize a food pantry, and she quickly got the church she belongs to, Brookville Baptist Church, on board as its site.
• Three Holbrook students receive college scholarships (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on July 8, 2009 at 10:19:16 pm
  Three Holbrook students have received $500 scholarships toward their college education. Dino Cauteruccio, Jr., Brooke Rose, and Katherine Davies were awarded the scholarships by the Holbrook Scholarship Committee.
• Local EMT recognized for response to fire (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on June 26, 2009 at 03:03:52 pm
  Julie Pace, an emergency medical technician employed by Fallon Ambulance Service, was recently recognized by the Quincy City Council for responding to a call that brought her worst fears to life.
• Low voter turnout in Abington (Boston Globe)
  posted on June 21, 2009 at 02:25:15 am
  With just one out of every 19 registered voters in town making their voices heard, Town Meeting last Monday approved a fiscal 2010 budget of $42.3 million, including $18.4 million for the schools. The 483 voters (of 9,252 registered) also approved a $1.7 million Proposition 2 1/2 override proposal that, if passed, would keep the number of police officers ...
• Largest turnout ever for Holbrook 5k (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on June 17, 2009 at 07:49:23 pm
  The 2009 “Run For Your Life!” 5k Road Race drew its largest field ever on what turned out to be a near perfect day for the run.  A record number of 97 entrants lined up at the start of the race held annually by the Holbrook Recreation Commission.
• Three receive Holbrook scholarships (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 09:20:13 pm
  The Town of Holbrook Scholarship Committee announces that three students have been chosen to receive $500 scholarships this year.
• Summer recreation program cheaper this year in Holbrook (Holbrook Sun)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 09:35:23 pm
  While the cost of many items keeps increasing, the fee for the Holbrook summer recreation program will be decreasing.