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