LANCASTER — The collaboration between Christmas on Runaway and The Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation is still going strong five years later and over $18,700 in total and counting has been raised for the latter through the popular holiday lights show. Since launching The Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation Inc. in 2020 the four Carr […]
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Massachusetts ed tech group’s board members resign after ‘dangerous’ anti-Israel, Holocaust comments at conference
Five board members from the ed tech group Massachusetts Computer Using Educators have resigned following a MassCUE conference when speakers made “dangerous” anti-Israel and Holocaust comments.
‘It’s what Christmas is all about’: St. Francis House serves ‘whole lot of love’ to Boston’s surging homeless population
As St. Francis House continues to see an “unprecedented” number of people in need of its services, Boston’s largest day shelter remains committed to its mission, evidenced by its annual Christmas tradition on Wednesday.
Historic Boston building being renovated to help better address increasing homelessness
Renovating the historic building that it has operated out of for the past 40 years will help St. Francis House better meet the needs of Boston’s surging homeless population, according to shelter employees.
FSU grads sent out to ‘transform the world’
Fitchburg State University recently held the winter ceremony of its 128th commencement exercises, conferring hundreds of graduate and undergraduate degrees. It was the first ceremony for Dr. Donna Hodge, who joined the Fitchburg State campus this summer as its 12th president. “Today, I am filled with profound pride and gratitude,” she told graduates and guests […]
Space heater, smoking materials possible factors in Fitchburg 3-alarm fire
FITCHBURG — Fire officials said that the 3-alarm house fire — which injured three occupants and a firefighter on Sunday — started on an enclosed rear porch where a space heater was in use, according to a release from Fire Chief Dante Suarez and State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine. The Fitchburg Fire Department responded […]
