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Around Medford Community Content Note: In response to concerns about the coronavirus, area events may be subject to cancellation, postponement or attendance limits. Please contact organizers to confirm event details. Ongoing Volunteer with the Community Cupboard Food Pantry: The Community Cupboard Food Pantry in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford seeks strong volunteers who can lift heavy items and stock storage shelves to work about three hours on the second Thursday of each month. V...

Sister’s Circle Women’s Support Network empowers women to move to the next level of recovery February 28, 2021 by Traci Watson, Sister’s Circle Women’s Support Network (SCWSN) San Francisco faces an extensive homelessness crisis – the result of substance abuse, mental illness, lack of affordable housing, unemployment and other socioeconomic challenges. Though men and women experience similar negative consequences of homelessness, women are the most vulnerable and at ...

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Photo provided. Black History month has been celebrated every February for decades. This year, the Students of Colour Collective (SOCC) is holding four events intended to educate and celebrate Black identity and history on the lands known as Canada and North America. The Students of Colour Collective is an advocacy group that aims to “promote and support cultural diversity on campus.” Ruth Nakalyowa, the current coordinator of the Students of Colour Collective, says that although the group ...

Business Briefs: Feb. 12, 2021 MOONEY Realtor Cyd Scott, pictured in his office at Cohn & Company in Greenfield, was recently named to the Stoneleigh-Burnham School board of trustees. Staff Photo/Paul Franz Fernando d’Andrea (left) has succeeded Jim Boehm (right) as vice president and general plant manager at Covestro’s Whately plant. Contributed photo Published: 2/11/2021 1:33:59 PM Shelburne Falls real estate agent earns accolades SHELBURNE FALLS — Wanda Mooney, associate broker with ...

Area DA expects surge of court activity when pandemic ebbs FacebookTwitterEmail SCHENECTADY - Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney is bracing for what promises to be a busy period for trials at the county courthouse once the pandemic subsides. In a memo last month to county officials, Carney said his office has at least 120 pending indictments, many of them charging violent crimes. He said currently there are 10 murder indictments. "I will be in need of experienced help once the p...

AMSTERDAM - January 28, 2021 - ( Newswire.com ) The coronavirus crisis has caused a huge surge in the number of online scams. Belgium, India, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United States all reported increases in the number of online fraud reports between 20% and 70%.  There are numerous individuals and organizations who are contributing to the fight against online scams in their own way. This includes everyone from average consumers who are raising awareness about scams to l...

Grandparent Support Network expands into Pender County A grandparent support program expands into southeastern NC By Anna Phillips | January 20, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST - Updated January 21 at 12:02 AM PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A program designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren is expanding into Pender County. The YWCA’s Grandparent Support Network offers peer-to-peer guidance for people who find themselves in similar situations raising their children’s children...

Last December, culture360 has launched a new series of articles on  how the arts are adapting to the "New Normal". One year into the global pandemic, this series will present  experiences and stories of resilience, adaptation, and success from the arts sector to the Covid-19 pandemic, with particular focus on differently disabled artists and arts organisations, artists residencies and arts funding.  This article by Veerangana Solanki looks at various art funding models that emerged in three...

The 135 million people of Africa’s Sahel region work with thin resources as they labor to stabilize their countries against layers of crises—extremist violence, the COVID pandemic and natural disasters. But in one of the world’s poorest regions and countries, a community in Niger’s capital city has united to produce what can seem like a small miracle of self-reliance. With the simple tools of community meetings, cellphones and voluntarism, a network of residents worked with police servi...