5 Things You Need To Know Today: Monday, April 9
Bits of knowledge to help make you the smartest person still coming down off a chocolate high.
Though Kylie Sedgwick fell in three sets, Tewksbury cruised to a 4-1 win over Wilmington for a second straight day.
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Here are five pieces of information to start your week with a bang and to help make you the smartest wondering how many different ways you can eat leftover Easter ham.
1. Your Local Three-Day Weather Forecast: According to the NWS, there will be a slight chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a west wind between 14 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. West wind between 7 and 17 mph.
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 60. West wind between 5 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37. West wind between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday: A chance of showers, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.
2. It's Happening Today: TMHS Girls Varsity Tennis vs. Newburyport High School. The matches begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Livingston Street Courts.
3. Are You Ready To Join The Battle? The Patch Video Battle of the Bands is back and bigger than ever!! Details of the amazing 2012 Video Battle of the Bands will be published on Tewksbury Patch at Noon today!
4. Reader Comment Of The Day: "17 additional victims, out on bail, and ordered Not to have any contact with the victims...That should teach him a lesson...Better lock up your daughters, this is Massachusetts, and judges here could care Less!!!!" Reader Dan, commenting on the story, "Additional 17 Victims Of Alleged Serial Rapist Are Identified."
5. It's Happening Today, Part 2: A follow-up public meeting regarding the proposal to build an expanded athletic complex as part of the new high school project will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in the Tewksbury High Auditorium. Residents will be allowed to comment on the proposal and on Question 1 on the Municipal election Ballot and members of the Friends of the Tewksbury Community Athletic Complex will be available to answer questions.
malcolm nichols
7:40 am on Monday, April 9, 2012
Silly question, Is it Tewksbury High or Tewksbury Memorial High? if so who died?
What should we call this new facility? Perhaps for $3-4 mm we can give some naming rights.
Bill Gilman
8:24 am on Monday, April 9, 2012
Oh Malcolm, there are no silly questions. :)
Technically Tewksbury Memorial High School and as i understand the new building will be as well. Naming rights? Hmmmmm. Definitely thinking outside the box. Not sure where "Memorial" came from. Readers?
Karyn
1:37 pm on Monday, April 9, 2012
Also the Planning Board meets tonight at 7pm at Town Hall.
Agenda can be found at:
http://www.tewksbury.net/Pages/TewksburyMA_PlanningAg/Agenda%2004.09.12.pdf
Keith Rauseo
5:25 pm on Monday, April 9, 2012
It is my understanding that Memorial High Schools are typically named to memorialize the veterans of the town. When TMHS was built in the late 50's, there would have been strong emotional motivation to memorialize the veterans lost in WWI, WWII, and Korea. The living veterans of WWI would have been into their 60s and 70s at the time, and the service and sacrifice of WWII and Korea veterans was fresh on people's minds. Many veterans of those two wars were also moving into Tewksbury with young families in the housing boom of the mid-1950's and 1960's.
To answer the question with certainty, one would have to look up the School Committee minutes from the period in the hope of finding an answer within the notes of the discussion leading to the vote which named the school.