MASSACHUSETTS: Low-tech mice trouble school; Exiled from cafeteria, they find refuge in lockers, elsewhere - (GateHouse News Service)
February 10, 2008 – 6:39 pmhttp://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2008/02/09/news/news09.txt
ABINGTON — Hungry mice have, according to this story, turned their tails on school lunches and are brown-bagging it now.
Its happening at Abington High School, where an infestation of mice has required constant attention of exterminators for nearly two months.
Marianne Crooks, food service director. for the towns schools, was quoted as saying, “Theyre gone from the kitchen. Now theyre getting into lockers and getting to the third floor.
Mice are are not uncommon in food storage areas. Rodent droppings were found in kitchens of 11 Brockton schools last year.
Abington Health Agent Michelle Roberts agreed with Crooks that the school cafeteria is mouse-free, but said the critters have found food in other parts of the school, stating, A citizen called and said a kids lunch got eaten in a locker.”
She attributed the infestation of mice to the excavation of land at a nearby development site. Mouse nests were disrupted, sending the creatures […]
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