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Mayor James J. Fiorentini, School Committee member Toni Sapienza-Donais and Joy Sapienza participated in the rededication of the Anthony B. Sapienza Memorial Track and Athletic Field at Haverhill High School. (WHAV News photograph.)
New sign near the entrance. (WHAV News photograph.)
The formal rededication of the $2.7 million Anthony B. Sapienza Memorial Track and Athletic Field at Haverhill High School served as a reunion Wednesday of family, friends and students of the late math teacher and cross country coach.
His daughter, School Committee member Toni Sapienza-Donais, who served as mistress of ceremonies, told WHAV she was moved by the gathering.
(Courtesy of Sapienza family.)
Following a long and thorough renovation, the Anthony B. Sapienza Memorial Track and Athletic Field at Haverhill High School will be formally rededicated during a ceremony next week.
School Committee member Toni Sapienza-Donais, daughter of the man for whom the track is named, made the announcement at Thursday’s School Committee meeting.
“I’m pleased to announce that we are going to have our official ribbon-cutting ceremony at Sapienza Memorial Track on Wednesday, May 12, at 2:45 p.m., at the entrance to the track. I’m so proud that this was able to come to fruition after a long time and I thank the mayor for making that happen,” she said.
Victoria Andrilenas
In normal times, this past Monday would have been Marathon Monday, but for the second year in a row COVID-19 meant having a large number of people travelling and gathering together on Patriots Day was unsafe from a public health standpoint. The Boston Marathon is one of the two athletic competitions that represent Boston sports to me; the other is the Head of the Charles Regatta in the fall. This is undoubtedly directly correlated to my status as a non-native New Englander who moved here for college. Both events were cancelled in 2020 because it was not safe to have such large numbers of athletes and spectators coming to Boston from all over the world; 30,000 runners and over 500,000 spectators for the marathon, and 11,000 athletes in 2,000 boats with more than 200,000 spectators for the Regatta. Much as I enjoyed attending both events, after the past year of social distancing, it is almost impossible for me to imagine being in large crowds like that again.
Restrooms at every T stop â how about it?
Updated April 17, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Your April 11 editorial, âBig dreams for transit need a dose of reality,â is right to call for any national money available for mass transit to be spent on things that may not be bright and shiny. One of them may be restrooms in every MBTA stop â restrooms that are as big and as well maintained as those at Logan Airport. If the Massachusetts Port Authority can do it, the T can too. Yet no politician will be clamoring to cut the opening ribbon or have a revamped restroom named after them.
Kiwi long-distance runner Allison Roe broke the New York City marathon record in 1981.
Forty years ago, in 1981, running was booming. Race numbers exploded, huge new marathons and fun-runs transformed cities as big as New York, London, and Sydney, shoes and apparel for running had become an instant industry, media and sponsors brought crowds and cash, and potent new names hit the headlines – Frank Shorter, Grete Waitz, Alberto Salazar, Nike, New Balance, Asics. It all seemed miraculous. And nothing was more miraculous than the sudden emergence, at the Boston Marathon on 20 April, 1981, of an unknown yet wondrous talent – Allison Roe from New Zealand.