Nonprofit helps Greenfield man get new ride
Greenfield resident Jeremy Prevost, 32, recently received a 2008 Saturn Astra from the vehicle donation nonprofit Good News Garage. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published: 5/26/2021 5:41:48 PM
GREENFIELD A Greenfield man has a new set of wheels thanks to a vehicle donation nonprofit.
Jeremy Prevost received a used 2008 Saturn Astra earlier this month from Good News Garage, a charity that started in Burlington, Vt., in 1996. The vehicle will enable Prevost to more easily commute to his new job at Stop & Shop and to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he plans to continue his studies of environmental science once campus reopens.
New research by UMass Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang reveals, with unprecedented clarity, details of violent phenomena in the center of our galaxy. The images, published recently in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, document an X-ray thread, G0.17-0.41, which hints at a previously unknown interstellar mechanism that may govern the energy flow and potentially
2.5 Million Scheduled to Lose Emergency Unemployment Aid by Early July as States Cut Benefits
On 5/27/21 at 3:06 PM EDT
By early July, about 2.5 million Americans are scheduled to lose emergency unemployment aid as many GOP-led states are moving to cut benefits as soon as June, according to the Associated Press.
Unemployment benefits are scheduled to end Sept. 6, but 20 states, including Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina, decided this month to cut the benefits as early as June 12 . These states are also ending the extra $300 weekly federal unemployment payment. Florida, Arizona and two other states are only stopping the $300 benefits. The total number of continued weeks claimed for benefits in all programs for the week ending May 8 was 15,802,126, a decrease of 175,255 from the previous week, a report from the Labor Department from Thursday said, according to the latest available data.
She had to flee from the Nazis when she was just 15. She won a Fulbright scholarship to study painting in France at a time when few women were recognized with that award. She befriended Pablo Picasso, and her work won praise from several other.
My Turn: We must cherish public higher education
UMass campus in Amherst.
Published: 5/26/2021 4:45:14 PM
In words unchanged since 1780, the education clause of our state’s Constitution reads that “[i]t shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish… the public schools and grammar schools in the towns.”
Is the Legislature living up to this constitutional mandate? Not yet.
Per-student state funding for public higher education fell 31% from 2001 through 2019, driving up tuition and fees and mounting student debt.
The CHERISH Act (S.824 and H.1325 An Act to commit to higher education the resources to ensure a strong and healthy public higher education system), which I filed with Reps. Sean Garballey and Paul Mark, draws its inspiration from our constitutional obligation. Co-sponsored by upward of 90 House and Senate colleagues, the bill would require the commonwealth to fund public higher education at no less