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(May 2, 2024) The Warming Place founding member Vincent DeBaggis and Habitat for Humanity board member Terry Anne Vigil were named the Council on Agings 2024 Nantucket Senior Citizens of the Year. …

( Feb. 1, 2024 ) The church should be the moral compass of a community. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King once preached those words from the pulpit. Now Rev. Dr. Althea Smith, Nantucket’s new …

( Dec. 21, 2023 ) Once again, Nantucket has become a victim of its own prosperity. Thousands of islanders are going hungry each year because they can’t afford food, and it all comes back to the …

(Dec. 1, 2023) The Community Foundation for Nantucket on Friday announced just over $345,000 in Nantucket Fund grants to 28 nonprofit organizations. The Nantucket Fund focuses primarily on …

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on efforts to provide overnight shelter for the island’s homeless. (Nov. 2, 2023) When he worked in social services at Nantucket …

(Oct. 26, 2023) You know them. But you do not always see them. In August 10 people were found living in a barn on Hinsdale Road, using propane tanks for heaters and car batteries for electricity, and sleeping on the hard floor.

A new warming centre and homeless shelter in Moose Jaw is set to open as soon as possible, according to organizers Square One Community Inc.

Over the past few days of frigid, -40 C temperatures, 110 to 180 people per night have sought and used the Awasiw shelter space.

AMHERST — Amherst officials intend to buy the former Veterans of Foreign Wars building and land on Main Street so the site can become the location of a permanent homeless shelter and affordable housing, with some of those apartments to be offered to...

Regina housing advocates Joey Reynolds and Donnie Wood are speaking up, with the hope to spark change to make sure everyone has a warm place to stay, especially at night.