Massachusetts
Blue Cross Volunteers Support 90 Service Projects Across Massachusetts on 12th Annual Service Day
Group
Metropolis
Challenge Description
About Recent
Digital challenge
5 volunteers are advising About Recent round knowledge safety finest practices and employees coaching suggestions to make sure that their Recent Join program is HIPAA-compliant and protected from phishing threats.
Annie’s Kindness Blankets
Hingham
100 volunteers are creating blankets to donate to group members experiencing substance abuse or mourning the lack of a liked one.
Applause Academy MA
Taunton
20 volunteers are serving to make the performing arts accessible to Applause Academy’s various group of kids by organizing and repairing props, units, and costumes and portray and adorning the dance studio.
Yard Growers
Gloucester
25 volunteers are weeding, mulching, and clearing pathways in an city backyard to assist present wholesome, contemporary meals to low- to moderate-income residents of Gloucester, together with many immigrant and refugee households.
Birthday Needs
Natick
20 volunteers are bringing the enjoyment and magic of a party to the homeless kids and households that Birthday Needs serves, by wrapping birthday items and filling Birthdays-in-a-Field.
Boston Harbor Now
Hingham
50 volunteers are ferrying to Peddocks Island to assist guarantee this lovely atmosphere stays a vibrant, public house – now and for future generations – by cleansing seashores, monitoring collected trash, and clearing trails.
Boston Residence
Dorchester
25 volunteers are internet hosting an Adaptive Sports activities and Recreation Day for Boston Residence residents and outpatients that may present them the particular alternative to bowl, play bocce, and take part in goal video games utilizing assistive know-how and adaptive gadgets.
Boston Nature Heart
Mattapan
25 volunteers are constructing nature play areas that present kids with extra methods to attach with nature by encouraging self-directed, casual play.
Boston SCORES
East Boston
12 volunteers are planting shrubbery & bushes across the exterior perimeter of the Boys & Ladies Membership, making a welcoming house for the two,500+ youth served yearly.
Boys and Ladies Membership of Lowell
Lowell
10 volunteers are creating exercise kits that may guarantee membership members can have entry to their favourite programming whereas the Membership is present process development.
Boys and Ladies Golf equipment of Boston
Roxbury
25 volunteers are offering a protected and welcoming house for Membership members by serving to clear the kitchen, prep a wholesome meal, panorama the entrance entry, and clear up the playground and baseball discipline.
Broadmeadow Brook
Worcester
10 volunteers are constructing a fence to outline the property line.
Cardinal Cushing Academy
Hanover
20 volunteers are serving to carry the present of contemporary air and outside exercise to Cardinal Cushing residents by serving to clear strolling trails round their campus.
Carepacks
South Weymouth
20 volunteers are packing care packages for deployed army containing high-calorie meals merchandise, socks and t-shirts, private care gadgets, books, magazines, and extra.
Catholic Charities
Hull
20 volunteers are portray, landscaping and winterizing Sundown Level Camp making certain at-risk kids can get pleasure from a enjoyable summer time of exploration and friendships for years to return.
Neighborhood Farms Outreach
Waltham
15 volunteers are weeding, transplanting, harvesting or different farm discipline duties that may assist the farm ship contemporary produce to neighbors in want.
Neighborhood Harvest Challenge
North Grafton
25 volunteers are taking part in farm work that may permit CHP to donate meals to over 20 starvation reduction companies in Central and Jap MA.
Neighborhood Servings
Jamaica Plain
50 volunteers are getting ready, and packaging scratch made, medically tailor-made meals for Neighborhood Servings’ 2,200+ weekly purchasers who’re experiencing vital sickness.
Cradles to Crayons
Hingham and Newton
150 volunteers are serving to type, package deal and label gently used clothes and books to distribute to kids in want throughout Massachusetts.
Crossroads
Duxbury
50 volunteers are serving to shut the campgrounds for the season and prepping the positioning for fall and winter occasions.
Dimock Well being Heart
Roxbury
20 volunteers are revamping the yard of a residential home for ladies in restoration and their kids to get pleasure from.
Dream Day on Cape Cod
Brewster
25 volunteers are serving to shut the services for the season to make sure that critically in poor health kids and their households can have a protected a welcoming atmosphere subsequent summer time.
East Boston Neighborhood Well being Heart
Digital challenge
5 volunteers are making a roadmap for East Boston Neighborhood Well being Heart to enhance employees and supplier data of and engagement with community-based therapeutic practices.
Eastie Farm
Digital challenge
5 volunteers are growing a price range framework and suggestions for implementation for Eastie Farm that helps them to trace their income, bills, grants, and wage prices extra effectively.
Esplanade Affiliation
Boston
25 volunteers are beautifying the Esplanade by selecting up trash and litter from the fields, gardens, and water edges of the park.
Father’s Uplift
Dorchester
20 volunteers are packing “Baggage for Dads” duffels full of provides and assets to assist dads experiencing re-entry from incarceration ease their transition and remind them that they’ve a help system that cares.
Meals for Free
Somerville
15 volunteers are packing “Simply Eats” grocery bins that present over 3,000 Boston space households in want roughly twenty-five kilos of produce and pantry staples.
Buddies of Holly Hill Farm
Cohasset
20 volunteers are harvesting produce to distribute to native meals pantries, getting ready backyard beds for fall plantings and serving to to compost on the farm.
Good Sports activities
Braintree
15 volunteers are sorting brand-new sporting gear, attire, and footwear at Good Sports activities warehouse to distribute to communities in want.
GreenRoots
Chelsea
20 volunteers are enhancing the group backyard by taking down beds, piling and dispersing wooden chips, and shoveling compost.
Completely happy Hope
Pocasset and digital initiatives
250 volunteers are creating Completely happy Hope Kits with coloring sheets and enjoyable actions that may carry a smile and a little bit of enjoyable to hospitalized kids.
Holbrook Meals Pantry
Holbrook
12 volunteers are portray the inside of the Holbrook Meals Pantry, so purchasers are welcomed into an inviting and dignified house.
Residence For Little Wanderers
Plymouth
20 volunteers are restoring a peace pond and backyard that present a quiet place to take a seat and chill out in nature for adolescent youth concerned with the Division of Youngsters and Households.
Hope Floats Therapeutic and Wellness Heart
Kingston
30 volunteers are serving to arrange and put together for Hope Floats’ annual Reminiscence Stroll that may present an area for grieving households to return collectively and honor the lives of these misplaced.
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Hull
50 volunteers are portray the fleet of boats and cleansing the museum house and repairing the museum’s wheelchair accessible ramp.
Jewish Household Companies MetroWest
Framingham
20 volunteers are help Framingham’s immigrant group by serving to JFS employees type, package deal and cargo seasonal kids’s clothes that might be distributed to households in want.
JoinedForces
Chicopee
20 volunteers are repairing the house of a veteran by performing fundamental dwelling repairs and enhancements.
Variety Hearts for Children
Bourne
15 volunteers are assembling kindness kits and adorning the workplace house the place foster kids come for visits.
Letters In opposition to Isolation
Digital initiatives
300 volunteers are writing handwritten notes to remoted seniors that may present pleasure and encouragement.
MA Coalition for the Homeless
Lynn
20 volunteers are constructing beds for homeless kids that may present a protected refuse and sense of safety.
Magical Moon
Marshfield
50 volunteers are making a magical house for kids with most cancers to flee and be a child by serving to revamp the Backyard of Hope, Fairy Nook, and Hobbit Home.
Mass Navy & Cape Cod Navy Assist Basis
Hyannis
75 volunteers are wrapping donated items for that households of veterans and energetic army in the course of the holidays.
Merrimack Valley Meals Financial institution
Lowell
20 volunteers are packing luggage of nutritious meals that might be distributed to college students who depend on faculty meals for meals by the weekend.
Mystic River Watershed
Everett
25 volunteers are eradicating litter from parks and paths that may cut back the quantity of trash that results in the Mystic River and defend native wildlife.
Neighborhood of Reasonably priced Housing (NOAH)
East Boston
25 volunteers are assembling emergency survival kits and changing three backyard beds.
Outdated Colony YMCA East Bridgewater
East Bridgewater
15 volunteers are making a “sensory home” with quite a lot of sensory stations to advertise social play, communication, and motor talent improvement.
Outdated Colony YMCA Middleboro
Middleboro
25 volunteers are putting in a water wall, an outside abacus, and a website phrase wall to make sure campers don’t fall sufferer to the “summer time slide” by offering enjoyable, energetic studying alternatives within the Y’s new “Poolside Classroom.”
Outdated Colony YMCA Plymouth
Plymouth
50 volunteers are putting in a water bottle filling station and planting a rain backyard to stop erosion close to their seaside to make Camp Clark extra sustainable.
Outdated Colony YMCA Stoughton
Stoughton
25 volunteers are making a sensory playground for campers at Camp Christina to encourage open-ended play and stimulate artistic considering.
Operation Gratitude
Digital initiatives
200 volunteers are making paracord survival bracelets and writing letters to supply army members and first responders with a tangible, lasting expression of gratitude.
Mother and father For Peace
Digital challenge
5 volunteers are assessing Mother and father For Peace advertising and marketing and communications belongings and growing messaging suggestions for educating and informing psychological well being suppliers on the companies the group provides to deal with radicalization and help households.
Peter Igo Park
Marshfield
20 volunteers are enhancing the services at Peter Igo Park spreading new sand on the volleyball courtroom, spreading woodchips, putting in a slide within the kiddie space, planting flowers, and energy washing the tennis and basketball courts.
Playworks
New Bedford
25 volunteers are beautifying the playground at Gomes Elementary Faculty to create a protected and inclusive recess house, rework recess tradition, and promote energetic life for college kids.
Challenge Simply As a result of
Hopkinton
50 volunteers are sorting and packing donating garments and important gadgets to arrange Challenge Simply As a result of’s transfer to a brand new facility.
Regional Environmental Council
Worcester
10 volunteers are constructing a fence that may defend the backyard from animals and assist improve their harvest to proceed to supply more healthy, reasonably priced, regionally grown meals for the Worcester group.
Room to Develop
Hyde Park
14 volunteers are sorting and packing bundles of child and toddler gadgets for the households in want with kids ages 0-3.
Save the Harbor Save the Bay
Dorchester
40 volunteers are cleansing up Malibu Seaside in Savin Hill following the busy season and getting it prepared for the winter.
Sharing the Harvest / YMCA Southcoast (Dartmouth) AM
Dartmouth
25 volunteers are changing the greenhouse coverings and planting strawberries and raspberries to supply these widespread fruits to people and households experiencing meals insecurity.
South Shore Stars
Westwood
20 volunteers are cleansing up the camp after a busy summer time and readying it for winter.
South Shore YMCA
Hanover
20 volunteers are harvesting and gathering meals on the YMCA’s farm to donate to native meals pantries.
St. Mary’s Heart for Girls and Youngsters
Dorchester
20 volunteers are beautifying the residential areas to make sure St. Mary’s Heart residents really feel supported, empowered, and impressed.
The Meals Challenge
Lincoln
25 volunteers are making regionally grown, wholesome meals extra accessible to low-income households and other people of colour in Larger Boston by weeding, mulching, harvesting, and washing greens.
The Salem Pantry
Salem
12 volunteers are packing dry items, frozen items, and contemporary produce to make sure the meals pantry is supplied to supply meals for its 100-150 dwelling supply purchasers.
The Shine Initiative
Digital challenge
5 volunteers are growing a e-newsletter template for the Shine Initiative that features construction and content material suggestions.
The Trustees
Hingham
25 volunteers are getting ready for the Trustees’ annual Fall Pageant, a household occasion that invitations lots of of individuals to the farm to play video games, go to with barn animals, and benefit from the farm. Volunteers might be serving to with competition arrange.
Collectively We Rise
Hingham and digital initiatives
250 volunteers are offering consolation, help, and happiness for teenagers in foster care by creating birthday kits, assembling STEM bins, and constructing skateboards.
City Powerhouse
Hyde Park
15 volunteers are portray the brand new facility to make sure athletes and members can really feel nice about their group and coaching house.
VA Boston Healthcare System (Brockton VA)
Brockton
30 volunteers are planting greens within the indoor greenhouse used on the hospital’s farm to desk meal program.
West Finish Home
Allston
20 volunteers are creating cubicles for its annual Health Carnival specializing in instructing youth wholesome consuming habits.
Weymouth Meals Pantry
Weymouth
20 volunteers are serving to run a pop-up meals pantry at Crossroads Worship Heart that may distribute shelf steady meals and contemporary fruit and veggies to neighbors on the South Shore.
Wonderfund
Whitinsville
25 volunteers are renovating household visiting rooms on the Southcentral DCF workplace utilizing a trauma knowledgeable method so kids and households can have calming and productive visits.
YMCA Cape Cod
Sandwich
20 volunteers are packaging shelf-stable meal luggage, creating culturally related menu playing cards, and cleansing up the kitchen facility and group backyard.
YMCA Larger Boston
Canton
40 volunteers are repairing benches and picnic tables, portray indoor areas, and cleansing up and organizing summer time video games at Camp Ponkapoag.
YMCA Southcoast
Wareham
25 volunteers are cleansing up the campgrounds and trails, portray foursquare and hopscotch on the blacktop, portray, and aiding with gentle workplace initiatives.
Zoo NE
Boston
50 volunteers are revamping the Giraffe Entrance making certain that it seems lovely to profit the encircling group.
Massachusetts
What are the consequences for Massachusetts teacher strikes? Lawyer wants unions to pay families
MARBLEHEAD – While Gloucester students went back to school Monday, Beverly and Marblehead kids were out for the 11th and 10th school days, respectively. Both communities are at a standstill in bargaining as the court orders an independent fact finder to help resolve the labor disputes.
Both unions face hundreds of thousands of dollars in court-ordered fines, as a judge held them in contempt after they engaged in an illegal strike. Union leadership says school committees are not negotiating in good faith. Striking teachers are going without pay, as school committee members say it’s illegal to pay an employee who is on strike.
Public employee strikes illegal in Massachusetts
All public employee strikes are illegal in Massachusetts, due to a law introduced in 1973 after a number of strikes across New Bedford and Franklin in which teachers were arrested. Teachers are not arrested in modern day strikes, but rather, their unions face hefty fines.
“I don’t think that a judge wants to put anybody in jail because you don’t necessarily want to make a martyr out of somebody who might not deserve martyr status,” said Glenn Koocher, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.
In a press conference Monday afternoon, members of the Marblehead school committee accused the simultaneous strikes in three North Shore communities as being coordinated by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the statewide educators union.
“In this case it is clear that the statewide MTA is coordinating these strikes,” said Jenn Schaeffner, co-chairperson of the Marblehead School Committee.
“Well, I don’t believe there’s any evidence that this is part of a statewide conspiracy, but I can tell that it is unusual that three school districts in the same area would all strike at the same time, use some of the same talking points,” Koocher added. “This significantly disrupts the welfare of children of all ages, and it’s never good not to be in school.”
Lawyer wants union to pay parents after strikes
A Chicago-based attorney is currently trying to change to outcome of teachers’ strikes through lawsuits. Daniel Suhr of Hughes and Suhr Law represents multiple Newton parents in a lawsuit against the Newton Teachers Association for individual damages (childcare, work missed, and more) form the winter 2024 strike that lasted 11 days in Newton. He has four other active similar cases across the country.
“I think the lesson the unions took from Newton is, we can break the law and still make a lot of money,” Suhr said. “That if we make a $53 million collective bargaining agreement, but only pay a half a million dollars in fines, well, if we don’t care what the law is, that’s just profit.”
Suhr alleges that making the unions pay penalties to parents would deter future strikes.
“We want to stop this from happening again,” he said. “Clearly the system is broken. These injunctions from judges are not being respected by the unions. And so, our hope is that a real financial disincentive which is paying these parents and students for the damage they’re causing will finally put an end to this.”
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STERLING – A dramatic, high speed police chase in central Massachusetts came to a peaceful end Monday morning when the driver surrendered to officers.
As seen live via helicopter on CBS News Boston, police were pursuing an SUV on Interstate 190 south in Sterling around 11 a.m. when the car nearly collided with another vehicle, then suddenly pulled into the median, swung around into a U-turn and took off on the opposite side of the highway.
After driving in the northbound lanes for a few miles, with police keeping their distance from the SUV, the driver got off the highway at exit 14 and continued onto Route 12.
Several minutes later, the SUV pulled over to the side of the road near Sterling’s border with West Boylston. Moments later, the car was surrounded by four police cruisers. The driver got out with his hands up, was immediately handcuffed and taken away.
The driver has not been identified yet and there’s no word as to why police were pursuing him or the SUV.
There have been no reports of any injuries.
No other information is available at this point in the investigation.
The Healey administration is aiming to eventually limit shelter costs to $350 million per year compared to the more than $1 billion dollars spent this fiscal year.
Governor Healey announced her plan on Friday that would bring significant changes over the next 19 months.
It includes winding down the use of 56 hotels and motels across the state and cutting down the shelter stay limit from nine months to six months.
Those steps will come with increased resources for finding long-term housing.
Healey is proposing that the rental stipend families can receive under state’s HomeBASE program increase from $15,000 per family per year to $25,000 per family per year.
“The landlord gets payments from HomeBASE. As a family’s income increases, the goal is to get their income so they’re no longer dependent on HomeBASE,” said Jeff Thielman, President and CEO of the International Institute of New England.
The state intends to slash the 7,500-family limit across shelter system to below 3,500.
“To make the Governor’s plan work, the shelter system and all of us who work in it, have to work faster than we are right now,” said Thielman.
The plans to further limit shelter stays would need the approval of lawmakers.
If approved, families considered more capable of supporting themselves could potentially face 30-day shelter limits.
“I think moving to a six-month limit is going to be tricky,” said Thielman. “There is a shortage of available units all across the state.”
Thielman said most of the migrant families his organization is working with in the shelter system have been temporarily paroled into the country for humanitarian reasons.
He said many have applied for or have received temporary protective status.
President-elect Trump has said he plans to end those legal entry programs.
“It’s highly unlikely that President Trump will have the ability to revoke someone’s lawful status,” said Thielman.
Trump has said that the more than one million migrants who are in the U.S. under Humanitarian Parole will be subject to deportations.
While Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state, it has eight sanctuary cities.
Mayors in those communities and Governor Healey have all said that they will not target people based on their immigration status.
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