A battle over whether students about to join the military can wear insignia on their gowns during graduation at a Connecticut high school next week is raging on social media, but school officials are holding firm.
Several students in Ledyard, Connecticut want to wear shoulder cords representing their branch of the service. According to some parents, the students got the cords from their military recruiters with the advice that they could wear them over their gowns during their graduation.
BOSTON — The state's Sierra Club director arguably stole the show during a rally Tuesday at the foot of the Massachusetts State House, which had been organized by a Falmouth lawmaker looking to drum up support for a bill that would enter the state as a non-party stakeholder into the United Nations' 2015 Paris climate change agreement.
State Representative Dylan Fernandes, a Democrat whose district includes Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Woods Hole, had plenty of positive words for Republican Governor Charlie Baker, who earlier this month entered Massachusetts into a climate alliance previously reached by other states. Baker's announcement came on the heels of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris climate accord.
