While walking to school yesterday, a fourteen-year-old girl in Norwood, Massachusetts, was killed by a car. "The driver, . . . a [female] teacher at St. John the Evangelist School in Canton, was cited on charges of vehicular homicide, negligent driving, and failing to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, authorities said. . . .

"At [the teacher's] Norwood home last night, investigators assigned to the Middlesex district attorney's office executed a search warrant and removed her computer, according to WBZ-TV. [The teacher], the station reported, is under investigation for allegedly having a relationship with a 14-year-old Weston boy and sending 40 to 50 sexually explicit e-mails to the teen. The parents of the 14-year-old have taken out a restraining order against [the teacher], according to WBZ-TV.

"[The teacher] worked at a Weston school, resigning in July, [the] superintendent of Weston public schools . . . confirmed. He declined to comment on the reason for her departure."
--from an article in the Boston Globe of September 11, 2004.

After all that has transpired in the sexual abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in recent years, isn't it strange that a Catholic school is employing an adult who has a sexual interest in teen-aged boys? Isn't a restraining order a matter of public record, and wouldn't the restraining order be supported by a judge's finding of facts?

I saw an animal this morning about 6:25 a.m. that I believe is a fisher. It is only the second time that I have seen one. The first time was about 11 p.m. about a year ago, and I was not able to see so well in the dark to be so certain what it was. I understand that they eat squirrels.

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There is an increasing problem presented by dogs in Canton, Massachusetts. A few people own vicious dogs. Why? Are the people drug dealers? Even on leashes, some of the dogs are frightening, since it is not clear that the owners can control them. And of course some dogs are out without leashes.