Speaker 1: This is wb Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news,
Speaker 1: forty seven degrees and Sonny at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Bray. Good morning, and here's what's happening. The
Speaker 2: wife of former Massachusetts Governor Michael Ducaccus has died. The
Speaker 2: family says Missus Doucaugas died last night at home in
Speaker 2: Brookline of complications from dementia. She was eighty eight. Kitty
Speaker 2: Ducaccas championed a number of causes while her husband, Michael Ducacas,
Speaker 2: was governor from nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 2: and from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety one. That
Speaker 2: included his unsuccessful run for president in nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 2: against private former President George H. W. Bush. Her father
Speaker 2: was Harry Ellis Dixon, the longtime concert master of the
Speaker 2: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Missus Ducaccas was an advocate for a
Speaker 2: number of from aiding the homeless, who is serving as
Speaker 2: a presidential appointee on the National Holocaust Panels. Among her
Speaker 2: biggest impacts came when she went public about her struggles
Speaker 2: with and treatment for depression, alcoholism, and also dealing with
Speaker 2: an addiction to diet pills. She wrote all about it
Speaker 2: in her memoir from nineteen ninety titled Now You Know
Speaker 2: Former Massachusetts First Lady Kitty Ducaucus Again dead at age
Speaker 2: eighty eight. Say with WBZ News Radio for more on
Speaker 2: this developing story. A controversial plan to merge schools gets
Speaker 2: the green light from the Boston School Committee. Wbz's Jabill
Speaker 2: n with reaction from parents.
Speaker 3: I just wish there was a close that my daughter's
Speaker 3: been going here for seven years and all, so it's
Speaker 3: kind of sad.
Speaker 4: The Boston School Committee votes five to one to merge
Speaker 4: two and close four schools, including Dever Elementary School here
Speaker 4: in Dorchester.
Speaker 3: I think it is supposed to come with solution first
Speaker 3: before they closed this school.
Speaker 4: The school is set to shutter at the close of
Speaker 4: the next academic year in twenty twenty six. The city
Speaker 4: says this move will grant more resources to kids. Parents
Speaker 4: here are shocked.
Speaker 2: Take confuse.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: She's kind of like a little sad, but you know,
Speaker 4: it is what it is. At the same time, Superintendent
Speaker 4: Mary Skipper acknowledges the difficulties of change in his statement,
Speaker 4: offering district support to help with the transition, Jay will
Speaker 4: Let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And meantime in North Andover, schools are hit with budget cuts.
Speaker 2: The Teachers' Union says a budget deficit is forcing dozens
Speaker 2: of layoffs. The school Committee voting yesterday do cut teachers
Speaker 2: and teaching assistants. The committee also voting to temporarily close
Speaker 2: Kittridge Elementary School, with students being assigned to other schools.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, the union is vowing to fight pending
Speaker 2: staff cuts at the elementary schools, middle school, and high school.
Speaker 2: Quick look in sports today, March madness continues and Providence
Speaker 2: is the center of it all. For the men's tournament,
Speaker 2: will have Purdue taking on Underdog's McNeice at twelve ten
Speaker 2: Arkansas and Saint John's at two forty n Providence. That's
Speaker 2: a matchup between John cal Perry and Rick Patino, two
Speaker 2: greats of the game. Meantime, Harvard will get their start
Speaker 2: in the women's tournament today at four thirty they're taking
Speaker 2: on Michigan State. It's time now for the fort a
Speaker 2: WBZ AC weather forecast. This afternoon, we're going to see
Speaker 2: intervals of clowns in sunshine and will be breezy and milder.
Speaker 2: We'll have a hive around sixty one that will get
Speaker 2: down to the low to mid fifties if you're on
Speaker 2: the Cape and the islands. Tonight will have a shower
Speaker 2: in spots early, but it will then become clear and
Speaker 2: blustering and turning much colder. Will have a low of
Speaker 2: twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, a chilly and gusty wind,
Speaker 2: highs between forty three and forty seven, So if you're
Speaker 2: looking for a data get out and enjoy the sun,
Speaker 2: Tomorrow or today would be the pick of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Now to start the work week, on Monday, it will
Speaker 2: be cloudy with periods of rain, perhaps mixing with a
Speaker 2: little bit of snow if you're north or west of
Speaker 2: the city for a little bit of time. We'll have
Speaker 2: a high between forty four and forty eight. Tuesday will
Speaker 2: be breezy and quite cold, with clowns and sun high
Speaker 2: of fifty three, and looking ahead as we head further
Speaker 2: into the week, there's a chance of a storm bringing
Speaker 2: showers or even a period of steadier rain. On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: a high between mid fifties and near our mid forties
Speaker 2: and near fifty as we head into the rest of
Speaker 2: the week. Right now in Boston seeing plenty of sun
Speaker 2: with a temperature of forty seven degrees, a small business
Speaker 2: on the North Shore struggles to stay open after getting
Speaker 2: scammed by a crooked contractor. Wbz's kindle Bule reports.
Speaker 5: The contractor who would disappear owing you're nearly forty grand
Speaker 5: first seemed Daymar Buckler, co owner of Eat Drink Explorer,
Speaker 5: provisions to be extremely professional and congenial.
Speaker 6: Myself, my husband, and my sister, who were all in
Speaker 6: this business together, all met him and didn't have any
Speaker 6: red flags that really freaked us out.
Speaker 2: By the end of the project.
Speaker 5: That project, the build out of the store was completed
Speaker 5: by a second contractor the Trio hired, depleting their funds
Speaker 5: for stocking their store on Main Street and Peavity with
Speaker 5: gore mat groceries with an emphasis on alternatives for foodies
Speaker 5: with dietary restrictions. Since then, the Buglers have worked to
Speaker 5: help other people not get scammed and to keep their
Speaker 5: doors open. For now, they're keeping their focus simple cheese
Speaker 5: and charcoutery plus food and drink workshops around the north
Speaker 5: Shore and have taken what daybar says was the difficult
Speaker 5: step of starting a GoFundMe page.
Speaker 6: People that we won over who want to see us
Speaker 6: stay here on Main Street. I'm hoping that they see
Speaker 6: what we're trying to do and want to help support that.
Speaker 5: From BBD, Kendall be able to be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Pope Francis will make his first public appearance in five
Speaker 2: weeks tomorrow. The Vatican says the Hope will offer a
Speaker 2: blessing from the window of his hospital room in Rome
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning. The eighty eight year old pont if was
Speaker 2: admitted to the hospital just over a month ago with
Speaker 2: a respiratory infection, has been seen by the public only
Speaker 2: once during his stay. Olympic gold medal winner and two
Speaker 2: time heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman has died. Foreman led
Speaker 2: a storied life, going from the rough streets of Houston
Speaker 2: to winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics when he was
Speaker 2: just nineteen. He won his first heavyweight title at twenty
Speaker 2: four when he knocked out Joe Fraser in Kingston, Jamaica,
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three, and then he lost it a year
Speaker 2: later in one of the most storied fights in Boxing History,
Speaker 2: CBS is Michelle Miller looks back on that rainy night
Speaker 2: ins I Air.
Speaker 3: Foreman would face off against Muhammada A Lee and the
Speaker 3: rumble in the Jungle of Fight in Africa, watched by
Speaker 3: a billion people worldwide.
Speaker 2: The punch is of the body of a Lee.
Speaker 1: I'm not hurting him. I'm not taking it toll.
Speaker 3: Foreman lost the title in that legendary bout when Ali
Speaker 3: used a technique he called the Ropeodope, allowing the powerful
Speaker 3: Foreman to punch himself into exhaustion.
Speaker 2: When I jumped up to roughree city was over. I
Speaker 2: had to live with that year after year. Foreman then
Speaker 2: went on to become a master salesman of his signature
Speaker 2: George Foreman Grill. He also became the oldest heavyweight champ
Speaker 2: at age forty five. Twenty years later after Holly beat him.
Speaker 2: When he defeated Michael Moore, George Foreman was seventy six.
Speaker 2: You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
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Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's news radio