BHR Adult Basic Education awarded $11,750 grant from Dedham Savings Community Foundation

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) program administered by Blue Hills Regional Technical School has been awarded an $11,750 grant from the Dedham Savings Community Foundation. The grant was presented to administrators from the program and the school on January 9 at the former Capen School at 322 Sprague Street in Dedham where the program now holds classes. The money will be used for an ABE sign for the building, new shades for classrooms and offices, and document readers for the classrooms. Blue Hills…

Important notification from Superintendent Rossetti regarding incident on January 7th

Dear Blue Hills Community: This letter is to notify our school community that a freshman student brought a pellet gun and a live round of ammunition to school Tuesday. At this time, there is no danger to the school community, and no threats have been made. Both items have been placed in custody of the Canton Police Department. At approximately 1:10 p.m., a school official was notified by multiple students that a male student may possibly be in possession of a firearm. The Canton Police Department…

Marybeth Nearen recognized for service to BHR District School Committee as chair

Marybeth Nearen of Randolph was recognized for her distinguished service to the Blue Hills Regional District School Committee (DSC) as its chair for two consecutive school years at its meeting on December 3, 2019. Chair Thomas R. Polito, Jr. of Dedham presented her with a handsome plaque adored with a gavel. Mrs. Nearen was DSC chair during the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years. She was only the third woman to be on the DSC in Blue Hills Regional’s fifty-plus-year history, and she was just the…

Fifty-two BHR Adams Scholars honored at ceremony

Fifty-two recipients of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship in the Class of 2020 at Blue Hills Regional Technical School were honored recently at a ceremony at the school attended by administrators, staff, friends and family members, Blue Hills Regional District School Committee Chair Thomas R. Polito, Jr., of Dedham, and legislators from Blue Hills’ nine-town district which is comprised of Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Norwood, Randolph and Westwood. The distinguished guests…

BHR graduate Marc O'Brien returns to BHR to work on major renovation project

Decades ago, author Thomas Wolfe wrote a classic novel titled “You Can’t Go Home Again.” For Marc O’Brien, however, that sentiment doesn’t quite ring true. A 2004 graduate of Blue Hills Regional Technical School who studied Construction Technology, Mr. O’Brien, 34, now an experienced professional carpenter employed by Consigli Construction, which proclaims itself “one of the largest general contractors in the Northeast,” came back to the high school alma mater he still holds dear in July to work…