Elsa Flores Joins Project Bread’s Inaugural Council of Experts With Lived Experience
Special to the Times-Free Press Elsa Flores, of East Boston, has joined Project Bread’s new Council of Experts with Lived Experience, which is designed to engage people who have experiences with food insecurity in conversations to shape the resources and…
HVNA Supports Two Projects
By Michael Coughlin Jr. In the first Harbor View Neighborhood Association (HVNA) meeting of the year on Monday, those in attendance voted in support of two projects: one on Saratoga Street and the other on Byron Street. The first project…
OHNC Next Meeting is Jan. 16
The Orient Height Neighborhood Council (OHNC) will be meeting on Tuesday, January 16, at the Ashley St. YMCA, starting at 6:30 p.m On the agenda will be the vote for a project at 28-30 Swan Ave. The project proposed are…
Plastic Free Mass Urges Legislators To Fix Recycling System
Special to the Times-Free Press Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), Just Zero, Be the Solution to Pollution, and other members of Plastic Free Mass are calling on legislators to update the state’s beverage container deposit return system (aka Bottle Bill), which…
Healey-Driscoll Administration Advances Tuition Equity
Special to the Times-Free Press The Healey-Driscoll Administration took a significant step forward in expanding access to higher education for all Massachusetts residents by launching the new Massachusetts Application for State Financial Aid (MASFA). The Department of Higher Education released the form on their website…