A red-crowned crane and spindly grasshoppers, radiant sunflowers and a black-eyed squid have flowed from the horsehair brushes of Judith Funkhouser and her fellow artists of the Chinese Painting Guild.
The Waltham High boys hockey team is headed to the state tournament, already has nine victories, and enjoyed a 10-game unbeaten streak that covered nearly six weeks of the middle of the season. In a 61-second span early in the third, however, the Hawks made sure their final home game of the season would be among the least dramatic games all year.
Putting the finishing touches on her drawing of a rainbow squrrounded by stars and hearts, 9-year-old Alex Attardo, a fourth-grader at Our Lady's Academy, said she hopes her card ``goes to a little girl, somebody my age'' in Haiti.
The clock wasn't working during the first couple laps of the girls 1,000-meter run in Friday's Dual County meet at the Reggie Lewis Center. Newton South junior Kathy O'Keefe didn't seem to mind.
The case against a 32-year-old homeless man charged in the armed robbery of a Bank of America branch on Moody Street was moved Monday from Waltham District Court to federal court.