School Nurse

Kim Pappas, the nurse at Beverly High, has been awarded a Partners in Excellence Award by the North Shore Medical Center. The award is for her work on the adolescent psychiatric floor of the Union Hospital in Lynn. Pappas was nominated by her peers and supervisors for her work with families and children in the admission process. - Steven Rosenberg

A school bus carrying 23 high school students collided with a car in Madison, but town officials say no one was injured. Officials say the bus was headed to Daniel Hand High School on Friday morning when the accident happened on Green Hill Road near Ridge Road. School officials say no injuries were reported, and all the students on the bus were examined by a school nurse. Officials say the school bus driver has been with the bus company for 11 years and has a clean driving record.

A school bus carrying 23 high school students collided with a car in Madison, but town officials say no one was injured. Officials say the bus was headed to Daniel Hand High School on Friday morning when the accident happened on Green Hill Road near Ridge Road. School officials say no injuries were reported, and all the students on the bus were examined by a school nurse. Officials say the school bus driver has been with the bus company for 11 years and has a clean driving record.

MARSHFIELD -- Two women were MedFlighted to Boston hospitals today after a serious crash on Route 3A in Marshfield involving a minivan and a school bus around 1 p.m. According to Marshfield Police Captain Phillip A. Tavares, the school bus was carrying kindergarten-age children from Scituate and Hingham. None of them were injured, Tavares said. Two adults were also on the bus; they also were not injured, officials said. The children were participating in a preschool program operated by a Plymouth-based non-profit, and...

Third- and fourth-graders at Butler Elementary School will get to run around before school in a new program designed to "get kids moving," according to school nurse Joan Griffin. "It's totally about moving for 40 minutes and having fun; there's no grading or anything like that," she said. The BOKS program - which stands for Build Our Kids' Success - is sponsored by Reebok and supervised by school staff. It will start the last week of February and run twice a week for 11 weeks. The program is free and includes a healthy snack, Griffin said.

MARSHFIELD -- Two women were MedFlighted to Boston hospitals today after a serious crash on Route 3A in Marshfield involving a minivan and a school bus around 1 p.m. According to Marshfield Police Captain Phillip A. Tavares, the school bus was carrying kindergarten-age children from Scituate and Hingham. None of them were injured, Tavares said. Two adults were also on the bus; they also were not injured, officials said. The children were participating in a preschool program operated by a Plymouth-based non-profit, and...

MONTVALE, N.J. — Always, it comes back to her. On a visit to St. Joseph Regional High School in this small borough on the New York border, the mere mention of two words — “McCourty twins’’ — lights up faces and brings forth adjective after adjective about the impeccably mannered, pastel-tie-wearing, highly athletic duo who roamed the halls and athletic facilities of the all-boys school. They always respected faculty, were conscientious students, wore those ties knotted as tightly as possible, and were part of three state-championship football...

The Holiday Magic program is taking applications for assistance in providing holiday toys for children of families in need. Because of budget limitations, coats cannot be provided this year. Children from infant through 12 years old are eligible and must be residents of Rockland. Toys are provided by the Toys for Tots program, local businesses, and private donations. Applications are due by Thursday. To apply or donate to the program, call Ann Phelps at 781-864-9288 or contact your child's school nurse.

DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio couple who kept a young girl in a barricaded bathroom for years when she wasn’t in school are in jail after the 9-year-old told a school nurse about how she was being treated, police said yesterday. Dayton police Sergeant Larry Tolpin said Brian G. Hart, 50, and Rivae Hart, 49, were in the Montgomery County jail on charges of kidnapping and child endangerment. The girl, Rivae Hart’s granddaughter, was kept in an area consisting of a half-bathroom and a small edge of a hallway blocked by two stacked dressers topped by a wooden mattress board, Tolpin said...

BARNSTABLE -- Almost 140 Hyannis Elementary School students went home last week with letters implying that they might be at risk for becoming underweight or overweight after a height-and-weight screening. The screening is the result of a federal law that requires schools to implement programs aimed at "wellness. " The programs also include vision and hearing tests. Some parents are angry, The Cape Cod Times reported yesterday. Vicki Elliott, whose 4-foot-tall, 66-pound daughter was sent home with a letter warning that she was "at risk of becoming overweight,"...

When Debbie Manning learned that her son Anthony was planning to try out for the freshman football team at Greater Lowell Technical High School, she cried. "I thought there was no way they were going to allow him to play," she recalled. But her slim, quiet son was determined. He was to going play football. Four years later, his playing days are over, but not before earning the admiration and respect of his teammates and coaches for his perseverance and overcoming adversity.

‘I HATE to be the bearer of bad news," said the knowledgeable young man at Staples, "but this baby has seen its last day. " "This baby" was my five-year-old laptop, a miraculous machine on which I'd written a few books, a few hundred shorter pieces, and 30,000 e-mails. Two of the small rubber discs that cushioned it were gone, the black paint of the bottom side was half worn away, and many of the letters - S, A, and D among them - had long ago been sanded into extinction by the friction of fingertips.

Third- and fourth-graders at Butler Elementary School will get to run around before school in a new program designed to "get kids moving," according to school nurse Joan Griffin. "It's totally about moving for 40 minutes and having fun; there's no grading or anything like that," she said. The BOKS program - which stands for Build Our Kids' Success - is sponsored by Reebok and supervised by school staff. It will start the last week of February and run twice a week for 11 weeks. The program is free and includes a healthy snack, Griffin said.

An Amherst middle school student got her arm stuck in a vending machine after she reached in to grab a bottle of water that wouldn't come out. The fire department was called to rescue the cold, embarrassed girl. The 13-year-old reached into the refrigerated machine at about 3 p.m. Thursday at Amherst Regional Middle School. "We just had to keep her calm and say, ‘No, we're not going to cut off your arm, we're going to get you out,'" said Fire Chief Tim Nelson. He said the department gets such calls about once or twice a year, but usually people pull...

Kim Pappas, the nurse at Beverly High, has been awarded a Partners in Excellence Award by the North Shore Medical Center. The award is for her work on the adolescent psychiatric floor of the Union Hospital in Lynn. Pappas was nominated by her peers and supervisors for her work with families and children in the admission process. - Steven Rosenberg

STUDENTS AT Boston Latin Academy are mourning the loss of a 12-year-old classmate who fell ill at school on Friday and died Monday from a probable case of bacterial meningitis. The students are sad, frightened, and full of questions about the transmission of the infectious disease. While outside experts are on hand to help them cope, the most consistent and comforting medical presences are the two school nurses who staff the 1,700-student school. The nurses who recognized the seriousness of the stricken girl's symptoms quickly called for an ambulance.

When Debbie Manning learned that her son Anthony was planning to try out for the freshman football team at Greater Lowell Technical High School, she cried. "I thought there was no way they were going to allow him to play," she recalled. But her slim, quiet son was determined. He was to going play football. Four years later, his playing days are over, but not before earning the admiration and respect of his teammates and coaches for his perseverance and overcoming adversity.

An Amherst middle school student got her arm stuck in a vending machine after she reached in to grab a bottle of water that wouldn't come out. The fire department was called to rescue the cold, embarrassed girl. The 13-year-old reached into the refrigerated machine at about 3 p.m. Thursday at Amherst Regional Middle School. "We just had to keep her calm and say, ‘No, we're not going to cut off your arm, we're going to get you out,'" said Fire Chief Tim Nelson. He said the department gets such calls about once or twice a year, but...

The Holiday Magic program is taking applications for assistance in providing holiday toys for children of families in need. Because of budget limitations, coats cannot be provided this year. Children from infant through 12 years old are eligible and must be residents of Rockland. Toys are provided by the Toys for Tots program, local businesses, and private donations. Applications are due by Thursday. To apply or donate to the program, call Ann Phelps at 781-864-9288 or contact your child's school nurse.