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CBS News
19 hours ago
- CBS News
Lynnfield students "shocked" and "embarrassed" by workers' alleged racist words at graduation
People in Lynnfield are weighing in on some very disturbing and racist remarks that were caught on video allegedly by some town workers who have been placed on administrative leave. It happened on Friday as employees were setting up for the Lynnfield High School graduation. A camera set up for a live stream of the ceremony caught audio of the comments as video showed workers unfolding chairs on the school's football field. Michael Murphy is the school class president and spoke at the graduation. "It honestly shocked me, I just can't people would say stuff like that," he said. Murphy said none of the students were aware of the incident until after the graduation ceremony. "I can't believe that they would say such things like that. It obviously does not resemble us as a town and definitely not a class," Murphy said. Graduate Lily White says she was also shocked when she saw the video and feels the comments don't represent school or the town of Lynnfield. "It was kind of crazy and quite disrespectful. Definitely the right thing to suspend them from their job. I just think it was very disrespectful, and kind of embarrassed about the town," White said. Workers placed on administrative leave The video was eventually taken down, but not before other people saw it on social media. Town officials say the workers have been identified and have been placed on administrative leave, though they are not saying how many are involved. Two town workers seen on video setting up graduation at Lynnfield High School. CBS Boston Lynnfield Town Administrator Robert Dolan and Assistant Town Administrator Robert Curtin released a statement saying, "We, as town leaders, stand together in outrage over what has been reported this evening and wish to state emphatically that racist language and behavior has no place in our town and will be dealt with immediately." Georgeann Lieb says she's saddened over the situation and feels the students deserve better. "For Lynnfield and any area in the state we got to realize what we are saying and what is spoken outwardly because you do not know who is listening," Lieb said. Murphy hopes people will walk away with a more important message. "Just don't be hateful and treat everyone equally," Murphy said. The names of the individuals who have been place on administrative leave have yet been released. The incident remains under investigation by the town and police and select board.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Town employees placed on leave after racist remarks heard on Lynnfield High School grad. livestream
An unknown number of town employees of Lynnfield have been placed on administrative leave after racist language was heard during a livestream of the Lynnfield High School graduation on Friday. In a statement released by Town Administrator Robert J. Dolan and Assistant Town Administrator Robert E. Curtin, they said: At 7 p.m. this evening I was informed that, during a live streaming of the Lynnfield High School graduation, town employees were overheard using inappropriate and racist words. This video and audio feed was seen and heard by people waiting to watch the graduation. The individuals in the video have been identified and I have placed them on administrative leave pending a full investigation of the video and any other evidence. The Select Board, Superintendent of Schools and Police Chief have all been informed of the allegations and we shall begin the investigation immediately. We, as town leaders, stand together in outrage over what has been reported this evening and wish to state emphatically that racist language and behavior has no place in our town and will be dealt with immediately. It is especially regrettable that this incident took place on what is and should be a night to celebrate our incredible seniors. Such incidents, however, must be confronted directly and openly and a full investigation and appropriate action will be taken. Boston 25 has reached out to the Lynnfield Superintendent and Lynnfield School Committee for comment, but has yet to hear back. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Boston Globe
5 days ago
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Eight high school takeaways from Thursday, as the quarterfinals take shape for every sport
Most brackets have gone to chalk — more evidence of the effectiveness of the power rankings formula — with no seed lower than 10 remaining in softball, nobody worse than No. 11 Ursuline left in girls' lacrosse, and No. 11 Shawsheen representing the worst seed still going in boys' lacrosse. But in baseball there's been plenty of upheaval, as eight double-digit seeds made the quarterfinals (13 double-digit seeds made the quarterfinals in all other sports combined) and two No. 1 seeds (Taunton and St. Mary's) have already fallen. No. 17 Natick and No. 16 Apponequet are still alive, as are 14 seeds Milford and Chelmsford, 13-seed Wakefield, 12-seed Franklin and two 11 seeds: Dennis-Yarmouth and Mount Everett. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 1. Reading list Advertisement From 2. Three stars Edy Latour , Dighton-Rehoboth — The sophomore lefthander pitched a two-hitter, allowing just one run with seven strikeouts, but it was her hitting that drew the headlines, going 4 for 4 with two doubles and four RBIs in a 13-1 Division 3 second-round win over Medway. Advertisement Criss Luna , Charlestown — The junior not only started the game for the Townies on the mound and delivered a game-tying two-run single in the third, but seven innings later he produced a walkoff home run over the fence in left field in the bottom of the 11th, giving the Townies a 3-2 Division 5 second-round win over Bromfield. Next up, City rival English Saturday night. Related : Liam Williams , Westwood — The junior middie netted his second goal of the game with five seconds remaining to lift the Wolverines' boys' lacrosse team into the Division 2 quarterfinals. 3. Going, going, gone No home run was more important Wednesday than Natalia Leach's , which stood as the only run in Foxborough's 1-0 win over St. Mary's in the second round of the Division 3 softball tournament. Milford's Joe Butler and Ian Carter both cranked two-run shots in No. 14 Milford's 9-7 upset of No. 3 North Attleborough in the second round of the D2 baseball bracket. Also homering were Dighton-Rehoboth's Emma Horrocks , Attleboro's Lola Ronayne and Medway's Olivia Klaus . 4. Daily lacrosse leaderboard Goals Arann Hanlon , Nantucket, 5 Emily Hagan , Walpole, 5 Kelan Cardinal , Lynnfield, 4 Kendall Herrick , Medfield, 4 Sawyer McCutchen , Nauset, 4 Sophie Zeppieri , Medfield, 4 Points Hagan, Walpole, 9 Arann Hanlon , Nantucket, 7 Owen Considine , Lynnfield, 6 Herrick, Medfield, 6 Zeppieri, Medfield, 6 5. Daily strikeout leaderboard Delaney Moquin , Silver Lake, 13 Jimmer Donnelly , Millbury, 11 Patrick Higgins , Norwell, 11 Mylee Ramer , Bishop Feehan, 11 Connor Grieve , Braintree, 8 Edy Latour , Dighton-Rehoboth, 7 Madux Iovinelli , Lynnfield, 6 6. Coaching corner Looking to boost its boys' basketball program, St. John's Prep announced the hiring of Corey Lowe to replace David Clay , who stepped down earlier this year for personal reasons. Advertisement Lowe coached Newton South the last two years, flipping a 7-13 record to 16-4 in his second season, when he was named Dual County League Coach of the Year. Previously, he led the Bradford Christian Academy girls to a 20-3 record. Former Newton South coach (and Newton North alumni) Corey Lowe will take over the boys' basketball program at St. John's Prep. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff 'I am blessed to be able to be the next leader of the Eagles program,' said Lowe in a statement. 'I will put a lot of focus into the development of all players from our middle school up to the varsity team. Sharpening skills that will allow us to play fast, spaced, and aggressive.' Lowe, a 2006 Newton North graduate, played four seasons at Boston University and is still the program's all-time leader in minutes and 3-pointers. He played internationally in Latvia, Israel, and Brazil before injuries ended his playing career. Lowe takes over an Eagles program that went 2-18 last season and hasn't made the playoffs since 2019. 'I'm excited to get working with Corey,' Eagles AD Jameson Pelkey said in a statement. 'He has an outstanding background as a player achieving success at the highest levels in high school, college, and professionally.' We are pleased to announce that Newton native and former Newton South boys basketball coach Corey Lowe will be the new head coach of the Eagles' program, effective immediately. Read more: — St. John's Prep (@stjohnsprep) 7. Commitment corner Haverhill's Jordy Oriach has committed to play baseball at Georgia after a breakout season at New Mexico. The 6-foot-5-inch outfielder and 2022 Hillies graduate spent two seasons at Frank Phillips College before hitting .388 with 16 homers and 63 RBIs last season with the Lobos. Breaking: Jordy Oriach has committed to Georgia, he tells me. The 6-foot-5 slugger had a breakout season in his first year at the Div. 1 level at New Mexico, where he hit .388 with 16 HRs and 63 RBIs. One of the best stories in college baseball. Now, he's headed to the SEC. — Evan Applebaum (@EvanApplebaum2) Harvard men's basketball announced its incoming class, which includes Worcester Academy graduate Ryan Sullivan of Auburn. A NEPSAC AA All-League selection, the 6-foot-9-inch, 205-pound forward helped Worcester win three league titles. A four-year varsity baseball player, Sullivan also plays AAU for BABC. Advertisement 8. Upcoming events The Mass HS Volleyball All-Star game events will begin at 10 a.m. on June 14 at SLAM Volleyball in Marlborough. The Boston City League All-Star baseball game will be played Monday at 3:30 p.m. Rosters are expected to be announced Friday. The 47th annual Shriners All-Star Football Classic will be held June 13 at 7 p.m. at Hormel Stadium in Medford. The girls' flag football championship tournament will be held June 12 at Boston College. The ISL Underclassmen All-Star game will be held at Boston College on Monday. Brendan Kurie can be reached at
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Yahoo
Homicide investigation underway after man found dead inside Lynnfield home
A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found dead inside of a Lynnfield home, authorities say. On Friday night, May 9, Lynnfield police responded to a 911 call to a home on Lookout Terrace. Upon arrival, officers located a 55-year-old male suffering apparent trauma. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Lynnfield police, alongside Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Essex County District Attorney's office, are currently investigating the incident. There is no further information available at this time. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Boston Globe
13-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Sunday Sitdown: Reflecting with Lynnfield tennis and wrestling coach Craig Stone at the outset of his 93rd season
Advertisement We caught up with Stone ahead of his 44th tennis season — and 93rd overall — to talk about how high school athletics have changed in his half-century of coaching. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Next winter would be your 50th wrestling season, are you planning to be back in 2025-26? Yes, you can't end on 49. That's a horrible number. It's like being married and you're going to get divorced after 49 years. I jokingly tell people, I'm trying to get to 100 seasons. You're not far off. When you started the wrestling program at Lynnfield it was a club sport? Yes, in 1975 there were 20 kids who got together and signed a petition that they wanted to have a team. I was the only one who applied for the [coaching] job so I was in. We did a club program and the athletic director said to me 'Do you want to go JV next year?' I said, 'If we go JV, we're not going to get the kids out. Let's just go varsity and take our lumps.' Our first match of the year we tied Methuen, 36-36, then we lost 11 in a row. Advertisement This past winter, in his 49th season on the mat, Craig Stone guided the Lynnfield/North Reading co-op to an 18-3-1 season. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff Back then, could you even comprehend coaching in 2025? You probably thought you'd be taking a flying car to practice? I remember our 1999 banquet and I said 'Next year we'll be in the Year 2000.' That sounded like the Jetsons. It was hard to believe. My club team [players] are approaching their 70s. I don't think anybody who coaches looks that long-term. It's just one of those things you go year by year . . . I kept doing it out of joy, and also necessity. You had to pay the bills and that extra stipend certainly was nice. You just kind of get hooked, the same way the athletes do, by the competitiveness, the camaraderie, the team-building, and improvement that goes on. You retired from teaching nine years ago, what keeps you coaching? Two things: First, relationships. The relationships with the athlete, with the parents, and with the community. I enjoy that interaction. The second is I love the competitiveness and the opportunity to find ways that I can help the athletes be successful. Let me take you back to your own childhood in Warwick (R.I.). I read that the Boys Scouts and YMCA were big influences on you? A: I was 8 or 9 and I brought home a flier from the elementary school about programs at the YMCA. It was a Saturday afternoon and my mom put me on a bus and off I went. Then I got involved in the Junior Leader Corp. The next thing you know it's my senior year in high school and I'm thinking 'What am I going to do?' I had a good math and science background. My mother wanted me to go into engineering. My father said do whatever makes you happy. I pictured myself doing what I do now, so off to Springfield [College] I went [where he wrestled for the first time]. Related : Advertisement And you didn't wrestle until you got to Springfield? At Springfield you have to take classes in different skills to get a base and so you know how to teach the activity. I took a wrestling skills class as a freshman and we had an intramural tournament, freshman against sophomores. I guess I did well enough to impress the freshman wrestling coach who happened to have a void in his lineup at my weight, which was 167 at the time. I went out for the team and I got hooked and I ended up wrestling for four years. In high school you played football in the fall and basketball in the winter. What got you into tennis? I'm shooting hoops and one of my friends comes in and says 'We need a fourth to play doubles outside.' I'd never played tennis before in my life. I went out and played and I came home and said to my mother 'I want to play tennis.' She said 'Well, you don't have a racquet.' She was concerned if we bought a racquet I might not continue with it, so she said I had to pay half. I bought myself a Pancho Gonzalez wooden racket. I paid $6 and she paid $6. Advertisement Lynnfield coach Craig Stone chuckled with his players while sharing the lineup for a Cape Ann match against Hamilton-Wenham in 2023. Winslow Townson for The Boston Globe You've been around wrestling for more than 50 years now, how have you seen the sport, or the culture around it, change? Every sport runs four seasons. There's no downtime. Back when I started you had the traditional kids with football, then basketball, then baseball, and you basically took the summer off. You could be a successful athlete doing that. What has happened with specialization, everybody is now training out of season. It's not so much what you do during the season to improve, it's what you do out of the season, not only with your skill base but your conditioning. I think the level of wrestling and tennis is as high as it's ever been. It's the quantity, the number of people who are competing at that level now. Consequently, the schedules and the workload has increased tremendously. Back then, we'd have 14-15 dual meets and maybe two or three tournaments. Now, kids are wrestling 50 times a year. Related : Speaking of the kids, I've talked to a lot of coaches about how the kids have changed over the decades. What's your experience? I believe the motivation, the discipline, that has pretty much stayed the same. I think what has changed is there's so much opportunity, so much mobility. Before, you went to school, you did an after-school sport and then you went home. Now, everybody has a million places to be and a car to get there. They have a phone. I think that has caused them, if it's not going that well, then they just move on. I think you probably don't have the percentage of athletes who will stick it out for four years with the hopes of by the time they're a senior they may have a shot. The other thing that has changed is the way coaching has transformed and how the athlete is treated. The intervention from the parents . . . Advertisement That was my next question. I was curious if the kids have changed. But I know the parents have changed. You've heard of the helicopter parents. It's the same in sports. I've been in town for over 50 years and I've been fortunate. I have tried to be transparent and consistent throughout my coaching career . . . I've had very few issues. Your wrestling co-op with North Reading has lasted 20 years. What has that partnership been like? It has been fantastic. In the early 2000s we started to notice the decrease in numbers and enrollment was going down . . . When I started teaching, Lynnfield was a three-year high school and there were over 700 kids in three grades. Now, there are four grades and we have 550 kids. We're trying to fill five winter sports. There's just not enough athletes to go around. North Reading is similar in size and was experiencing the same issues. They dropped their wrestling program in 2000. I live in North Reading, my kids went to school there, and I proposed [a co-op]. Our first season, in 2005, we had three kids from North Reading. We got as high as 40, 45 kids equally distributed between the schools . . . We're five miles apart and you go from Thanksgiving football game where they're knocking each other down to the wrestling team where they're building each other up. Related : Advertisement Do you give much thought to reaching 1,300 wins? I'm sneaking up on it. I'd like to be able to get to that point, but it's not something where I'm going to hang in there just to get it. If it comes, it comes. Brendan Kurie can be reached at
