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The Daily Free Press

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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Magnolia and memories: Reflecting on America’s only lynching memorial

Maha Uddin March 27, 2025
After experiencing the museum, Montgomery felt different. My class was silent. Nobody cared to crack any jokes. The air even started to smell different — like rotting garbage, reminiscent of the Southern Magnolia that Billie Holiday sung about decades prior. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: It’s time to break up with sugar

Bailey Salimes March 17, 2022
In letting go of sugar, you are reducing your chances of meeting obesity later on in life and potentially saving yourself from a myriad of physical and mental health troubles.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: The cost of convenience

Bailey Salimes November 9, 2021
When it comes to ease of living in the United States, our health — and the earth’s — can often pay the price. Convenience shops, big box stores and drive-thrus seem to etch themselves into our lives as we become too absorbed in the more major matters at hand. 
A bowl of oatmeal. Morgan shares her oatmeal recipe that she swears will have you addicted. COURTESY OF SUSAN WILKINSON VIA UNSPLASH

The oats you can’t help but become addicted to

Morgan Macphee October 27, 2021
I fall asleep now dreaming of the next morning since this is when I make my oats.
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Ask Sophia: What should I do with excess produce before it goes bad?

Sophia Yakumithis April 22, 2021
The issue of food waste is something I was confronted with this past week.
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City approves more than $370,000 in Charlestown Community Impact Fund grants

Daniel Kool March 24, 2021
Its Managing Committee approved “mini-grants” of $2,500 to $20,000 to local nonprofits.
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New community gardens planned for Mattapan, East Boston

Taylor Brokesh March 9, 2021
The pair of gardens will follow two different models of urban farming: one will be a food forest, the other a community farm.

What are the Hungry Hungry Hippos eating?

Emma Simonoff February 1, 2021
Hungry Hungry Hippos strongly embodies the American hard-working spirit. The hippos are a symbol of ambition and grit. One question has been haunting me recently: what are the hippos hungry hungry for?
Sales have thrived for vendors of the Seasonal Seaport Farmers Market in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/ DFP FILE

Seaport Seasonal Farmers Market thrives through COVID-19 pandemic

Emma Vacirca September 25, 2020
Amid the pandemic, the annual farmers market has continued running, and many New England businesses have thrived because of it.

Fiona Apple visits the Wang Theatre, vocal fury in tow

Daily Free Press Admin July 3, 2012

The truly great performances, the ones that stick with us, are fueled not by style or light shows or even guitar solos. They may feature guitars, or crowds full of hard-to-please hipsters, or sometimes...

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