Bob Dumas

1 week ago | boston25news.com | Bob Dumas

JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. — The Aspen Institute, a national non-profit, asked high school students to not only think about the big problems they face, but also how to fix them. Three teams from Boston Public High Schools were cited for their projects. Later this month, they will get all-expense-paid trips to Colorado for a conference to share their findings. Students at the Margarita Muniz Academy looked into ways to stop school shootings. It’s a situation we see too often around the world these days.

1 week ago | boston25news.com | Bob Dumas

BROOKLINE, Mass. — The odds of getting admitted to M.I.T. are very slim. A Brookline teenager, Viraj Dhanda, who is nonverbal and autistic, alongside his devoted father, Sumit, pulled this off. It’s never been easy for Viraj. He didn’t start to learn basic communication until he was 10 years old. “I keep telling people that when he was five years old, me, and the entire extended family only had one goal: to get him toilet trained,” said his father, Sumit Dhandra.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Bob Dumas

Martha’s Vineyard celebrates 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws,’ which was filmed on the islandIt’s the movie that kept beachgoers out of the water and launched millions of nightmares. And of course, featured some iconic lines, like “You’re going to need a bigger boat.”Jaws was a cultural phenomenon that transformed the film industry and put Martha’s Vineyard on the map. This year, the movie turns 50.

1 week ago | boston25news.com | Bob Dumas

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — It’s the movie that kept beachgoers out of the water and launched millions of nightmares. And of course, featured some iconic lines, like “You’re going to need a bigger boat.”Jaws was a cultural phenomenon that transformed the film industry and put Martha’s Vineyard on the map. This year, the movie turns 50. Even though Martha’s Vineyard is picturesque, it wasn’t the first choice to film the movie version of Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel.

2 weeks ago | boston25news.com | Bob Dumas

Some colleges are having trouble attracting enough students for this coming fall This might turn into an advantage for some families. Syracuse University, for example, has been upping financial aid offers to students who were accepted but decided to commit to other schools. Mason Cera of Medfield recently got an email out of the blue from Syracuse offering him an $80,000 scholarship spread out over four years.