Stoneham Man's Baby First Born at Winchester Hospital in 2013

Hunter Joseph was born to Melissa Parziale of Arlington and Michael Sampson of Stoneham at 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday. He weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and was 21 ½ inches long.

A Stoneham man's baby was the first baby born at Winchester Hospital in 2013, according to a hospital press statement. Hunter Joseph was born to Melissa Parziale of Arlington and Michael Sampson of Stoneham at 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1, according to the statement. Hunter weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces and was 21 ½ inches long, added the statement. Parziale was at Winchester Hospital since Monday when her water broke 10 minutes before the New Year’s Eve ball dropped, reads the statement. She quickly went into labor and Hunter was born a few hours later, add the statement. “The original due date was today, so I thought there was a chance the baby would be coming on New Year’s,” Parziale said in the statement. Both Parziale and Sampson …

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Arlington School, Nonprofit Team Up to Renovate Classrooms

Nonprofit Paint it Forward vows to help transforming technology education classrooms into optimal learning environments for Arlington's middle school students.

Have you ever seen the movie “Pay It Forward?” If you haven't, you should check it out. And if you have seen the movie, I think you know where this is going. Ottoson Middle School in Arlington is teaming up with nonprofit Paint it Forward to make the Technology Education classrooms optimal learning environments for Arlington's students. Paint it Forward takes classrooms and transforms them from white-walled cluttered spaces to warm, inviting, organized environments where kids love to go and learn. I thought we did a pretty decent job with what we had done with our generous donations. But after meeting with Paint it Forward founder PJ Davey, I was blown away with this nonprofit’s focus on networking and getting so many people to dedicate …

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Elite Eight: Stoneham Woman Advances on HGTV's 'All American Handyman'

Allison Oropallo placed among the bottom four this Sunday, but she pulled through and moved on to another week on the TV show.

It was a rough week for Stoneham resident Allison Oropallo, after placing as one of the bottom four contestants on HGTV’s "All American Handyman". In the end, she pulled through and staved off elimination, now moving on to another week as one of the show’s eight remaining contestants. “For some reason I thought I knew what I was doing,” said Oropallo after a stair-making challenge on Sunday’s show. “It was my first time feeling what it was like to be in the bottom,” she added. “I was like, ‘Please don’t let me go home today.’” Oropallo, an applied technology teacher at Ottoson Middle School in Arlington, was one of 20 handymen chosen from a pool of 3,000 contestants nationwide. On the show, the 20 contestants are taken to the Brooklyn Navy…

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