Bring your old electronics to Burlington High on Jan. 5 for safe and environmentally friendly disposal.
The following is a release from the Burlington Conservation Commission: The Students for Environmental Action (SEA) are poised and ready to accept your old, unwanted, and broken electronics. Please bring your computers/laptops, monitors, printers, typewriters, iPads, iPods, cell phones, or other electronics to Burlington High School between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on January 5. Burlington High School is located at 134 Cambridge Street, Burlington, MA. Please note that televisions will not be accepted at this event. SEA is a student activity group, led by Jill McInerney and Nathaniel Ladd, with the mission of helping to protect our natural environment. The students organized this event not only to help residents properly dispose of their …
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Burlington High School
123 Cambridge St, Burlington, MA
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Burlington PD Chief Kent and Officer Creamer spoke about an incident with a Burlington teenager and a registered sex offender at the selectmen meeting to highlight risks posed by power of phones.
Burlington Police Chief Michal Kent and Officer Matthew Creamer came to last night's Board of Selectmen meeting to warn parents to be cautious of power of smart phones and how children using them might become susceptible to real-life threats. Creamer said the inspiration for the warning came from an incident in September, 2010, when a level-3 registered sex offender was able to trick a teenager into providing him with her phone number after an encounter at Simonds Park. Creamer explained that Keith Ericson, 49, of Woburn, a registered sex offender, approached a 16-year-old female at the park pretending to be searching for his phone. The young woman agreed to help and dialed the man's number with the idea they would locate the phone by its …
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Simonds Park
1 Bedford St, Burlington, MA
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Burlington Town Hall
29 Center St, Burlington, MA
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Rose Manni
2:20 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thank you for watching out for our children, Chief Kent and Burlington's finest! Young teens would be safer if they travel with a buddy, especially when just "hanging out." Children are not safe anywhere anymore. Along with DARE, are there lessons in "how to be less vulnerable" or "how to react when your space is being threatened?" Rose Manni more ›