NEW Health Provides Food Assistance Beside the COVID-19 testing NEW Health is providing, in the Nazzaro Community Center parking lot, they are also providing support facing food insecurity. Call 617-643-8000 for testing and information on food assistance. Friends Cancel Reunion…
Month: August 2020
Baker-Polito Administration Launches Online Platform to Enhance Food System Connections
The Baker-Polito Administration announced the launch of MassGrown Exchange, an online platform designed to facilitate business-to-business connections within the local food system for products and services. The platform was developed following recommendations from the Administration’s Food Security Task Force, which promotes ongoing…
America Is Circling the Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated…
Car Repossessions are on the Rise
Although most of the attention of the financial crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the evictions and foreclosures facing millions of out-of-work Americans, the number of repossessions of motor vehicles because of loan defaults is starting…
Opinion
By Phil Orlandella Help Keep the Community Clean and Healthier Now that the City of Boston has started mechanical street cleaning in the North End, residents, landlords and the business community should pitch in and clean the curb area in…