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As founding Executive Director of Gateways, a regional special education consortium, Arlene Remz has become a well-known figure far beyond the Boston Jewish community her organization serves. Remz launched Gateways in 2006 from her bedroom alcove, and developed it into a multi-million dollar operation that serves a wide range of
Brown University
Leon Cooper is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Brown University and the director of its Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. Depending on whether you ask a physicist or a neuroscientist, you'll get very different answers on why Cooper is famous. The former will argue it is because
children
It all started with a question that Jean and John Kingston had in 2005 when their eldest daughter turned 14: "Have we done a good enough job instilling in our children the values in which we believe?'" After much consideration, the Kingstons decided that it was not
Massachusetts
MARBLEHEAD – Alice McGill Tompkins, a 105-year-old resident of Lafayette Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, was recently presented the historic Boston Post Cane, in recognition of her status as the town's oldest living resident. In November, Marblehead Selectman Jackie Belf-Becker presented Tompkins with the cane and a plaque — a New
American dream
When Joqui Giron-Melendez and her family first moved to Chelsea from Honduras almost 25 years ago, they had a sense that great things were going to happen. This was America after all! From an early age, her parents instilled in her a strong work ethic and a belief that in
Abortion
BOSTON – In a region with a pronounced progressive tilt, some television watchers may be surprised to stumble upon a local television show that exists expressly to air discussion about unborn children. But that is exactly what Brendan O'Connell, 61, has produced for nearly 13 years in Boston. As
Massachusetts
BOSTON – For Becky Guerra, committing to build a new school in the inner city meant moving there, too. So she and her husband, Frank, then a teacher at Roxbury Latin, upped stakes and moved to Jamaica Plain from their home of 15 years in Arlington. "I didn't
umass
BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts might be going places, but Marty Meehan, the former congressman from Lowell who will be sworn in Thursday as the University's 27th president, is staying put. "You can't have transformational change in just two or three years," Meehan said
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