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The Daily Free Press

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How to give back this Thanksgiving season

Abigail Stocker November 14, 2024
Thanksgiving is approaching and in the spirit of celebrating gratitude and unity, it's important to find time to give back to your community.
A Red Line train.

MBTA releases new interactive Speed Restriction Dashboard

Bailey Scott March 28, 2023
The new interactive map shows which tracks have speed restrictions, allowing for more transparency.
Carlos Apostle pictured in a 2019 article from El Mundo Boston

BU named defendant in case of sexual assault, battery

Samuele Petruccelli December 9, 2021
Alum claims course professor took no action following her reports of sexual misconduct by his "assistant."
Community fridge at Oliveira's Deli Market

Allston community fridge looking for new home after power shut off

Isabella Abraham May 27, 2021
The Allston community fridge is moving after a power cut expelled them from their location.
row of houses in charlestown

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.
john lewis mural at food for free in cambridge

Vandalized John Lewis mural finds new home at Cambridge nonprofit

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 15, 2021
A mural of civil rights icon John Lewis found a new home at Food for Free’s volunteer packing center in East Cambridge after being defaced in November.
Massachusetts expects to receive 300,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines by the end of December. In Phase 1 of three supply levels, the doses will be distributed first to health care employees, individuals with high-risk health conditions and those aged 65 years and older. COURTESY OF FERNANDO ZHIMINAICELA VIA PIXABAY

Experts outline who, how, when of approaching COVID-19 vaccine

Madhri Yehiya December 7, 2020
Massachusetts ordered 59,475 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Friday, the first shipment of 300,000 total vaccines the state expects to receive from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of December.
A community fridge in Allston outside of Grasshopper Restaurant. Food insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the opening of community fridges across the city of Boston. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Community fridge opens in Fenway

Allison Pirog November 19, 2020
A community fridge and pantry opened in Fenway Monday to serve those experiencing food insecurity, which has grown in prevalence since the pandemic began.
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a panel Tuesday to encourage students to incorporate human rights into their career paths. COLE SCHONEMAN/ DFP FILE

Int’l relations professionals share how to break into human rights work

Caroline Bowden November 12, 2020

As public health, migration and climate crises persist around the globe, younger generations, including current college students, will soon take on the burden of these issues. A panel of experts...

Lena Papadakis, a pre-medical senior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, founded Preemie to Pre-Med, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting child life departments in New England hospitals. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sargent student’s childhood hospitalization leads her to launch nonprofit

Cameron Morsberger November 3, 2020
Lena Papadakis was born 32 weeks premature. But out of this distress, she is now giving back to the very programs that saved her life.
Boston’s Good Neighbors Program has fulfilled more than 4,500 requests from seniors, who are at higher risk for COVID-19, to assist with errands. LAURYN ALLEN/ DFP FILE

Volunteers help Boston seniors run thousands of errands during pandemic

Shannon Damiano October 29, 2020
The Good Neighbors program, created in April as a response to the pandemic, pairs seniors with volunteers who help purchase groceries, prepare food and deliver medication. Volunteers also engage in phone or written communication.
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit “The Visitors” reopened for Institute of Contemporary Art members on Wednesday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Reinstalled, Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit takes on new meaning after COVID-19

Chloe McKim Jepsen October 1, 2020
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” will appear again at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where it was exhibited earlier this year before the pandemic.
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