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Arlington's Babe Ruth All-Stars, New England champs, beat Vancouver, Wash., the Pacific Northwest champion, 9-3, with six runs in the ninth inning on Wednesday, Aug. 25. See the box score here. The win evened their record to 2-2, but they were eliminated.

Arlington beat host team Loudon County, Va., 6-0, on Monday, Aug. 23, and then lost, 12-9, on Tuesday, Aug. 24 to Bryant, Ark., the Southwest regional champ, which scored nine runs in the seventh. The town team is now 1-2 after losing to Waite Park, Minn., the Midwest Plains champ, 8-1, on Saturday, Aug. 21.

See the box score for the shutout (Tim Conroy pitched six innings) or the box score for the 12-9 loss.

Danielle and Renee Gaudette.

Sisters Danielle and Renee Gaudette never thought they would enter a similar line of work, let alone manage healing businesses in the same neighborhood.

Four years apart and each with a different set of interests, it seemed that they were destined to go down different paths.

Yet somehow, their roads still converged. Today, Danielle manages the Arlington Dahn Yoga Center, and Renee oversees Water House Wellness, just down the street.

Originally from Watertown, the sisters have become a vital part of Arlington’s healing community. "Both Danielle and I grew up in an extremely loving and supportive environment," says Renee. "I do not think it is very far reaching to assume we’d both become involved in providing services to others."

Adam Auster has posted on his blog his notes about the Wednesday, Aug. 4, meeting of the Mass. Ave. Review Committee. See them here >>

He writes that this version of the plan to reshape Mass. Ave. from Pond Lane to Cambridge would have narrower travel lanes for cars, wider sidewalks in the business district, and a 3-foot buffer between bicycles and cars on the westbound side of the street.

Globe, Aug. 8: Eric Berger's cause | Latest drawings (Aug. 9) | Auster blog, Aug. 15: Safer crossings

The selectmen on Monday, Aug. 9, unanimously approved a new traffic pattern for the Stratton School neighborhood, one that was revised after abutters expressed concerns. The plan should be in effect when schools reopen, Sept. 8.

After concerns expressed July 26, the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) switched gears. It had recommended that Pheasant Avenue be one-way westbound, but the current plan has returned the direction to the way it is now -- one way eastbound.

Washington Street was repaved in July, but sidewalk work on the delayed $300,000 project continues. On Monday, Aug. 9, Town Manager Brian Sullivan told the selectmen that he expected the work to be completed by the time school starts. That would be Wednesday, Sept. 8.

July 24: Delayed Washington St. repaving underway

Arlington public schools has been awarded a $999,990 three-year grant from the US Department of Education as part of the Teaching American History Grants Program, which funds intensive professional development for teachers in American history, a core academic subject.

A news release from Superintendent Kathleen Bodie says the award will support teacher preparation to allow teachers to deepen their students’ understanding of the documents that established the framework for the United States and how that very framework affected key turning points, individuals, and events of our nation’s history.

Henry Allyn Sheehan, 85, holds his Arlington High School diploma, presented at the Tuesday, Aug. 3, School Committee meeting.

Behind him is his daughter Allyne Perry, AHS '86. Behind her is her sister Rose Lauria, AHS '82. To her left is granddaughter Sharon Lauria. Henry's dad, William, graduated from AHS in 1905. In 1942, Sheehan left AHS to join the Navy.