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MCAS 2022: Testing scores show these Western Massachusetts charter schools made gains in learning

Dec 6, 2022

By now, most everyone knows that because of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, students are not where they are supposed to be. Read more via MassLive>>>

Congress must strengthen the legal rights of foster children

Dec 2, 2022

Congress must reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) before the end of this session, with long-awaited language to acknowledge and protect children’s legal rights. Read more via The Hill >>>

In Vermont, a call to end logging in the Green Mountain National Forest

Nov 29, 2022

ROCHESTER, Vt. — Along a hillside deep in the Green Mountain National Forest, where thousands of decades-old spruce, maples, and other hardwoods were thriving until earlier this year, there’s now a wasteland of gnarled roots, freshly sawed stumps, and the decomposing...

Whitinsville bank makes $5-million commitment to local charities to celebrate 150th anniversary

Nov 27, 2022

WORCESTER ― Whitinsville-based bank UniBank made a $5 million commitment to its foundation, UniBank Charitable Foundation, to celebrate the bank's more than 150-year history. Read more via the Worcester Telegram & Gazette >>>

Newly-Remodeled Walmart Provides Framingham Customers with a Better Way to Shop

Nov 22, 2022

FRAMINGHAM – Framingham residents will soon get a first look at the newly remodeled Walmart Supercenter at 121 Worcester Road, as the much-anticipated project is now complete. A grand reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place on Friday, November 18 at 8 a.m....

Walmart Donates $4,000 To Shop With Cop Program

Nov 22, 2022

FRAMINGHAM – Walmart in Framingham donated $4,000 to the Framingham Police Association for its annual Shop with A Cop program this morning, November 18. The donation was part of a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly-remodeled store on Route 9. Read more via the...

Monday numbers: A closer look at how Buncombe County women are criminalized for poverty and substance use

Nov 21, 2022

Drug abuse and violence are experiences commonly shared among the women detained at the Buncombe County Jail, according to a study released last week by the Vera Institute of Justice. Of the 40 women surveyed in the Buncombe County Detention Center in September 2021,...

Abby Kelley School students hold food drive for Abby’s House

Nov 18, 2022

WORCESTER, Mass. - Students at the Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School are delivering food to women in need at Abby's House. Sixth and seventh-graders spent Friday afternoon packaging up food items to be delivered. The students are part of the school's leadership...