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UpdatedWed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:46 pm ET Reply On January 24 at 4 p.m., MetroWest Climate Solutions will host a Climate Legislation Update featuring State Senator Michael J. Barrett, who represents the Third Middlesex District. Sen. Barrett continues to be a regional leader on addressing the climate crisis. In this program, he will offer an update on Massachusetts climate legislation at the start of a new legislative session and his view of what our state and region need to do to address the growing threats from our changing climate. The Zoom-based presentation will be followed by a Q&A, moder...

Anthony McManus Many people may not think of Dover as a particularly "hilly" area, but in fact, from its very early years a number of locations have been identified specifically as heights of land.  In today's world, with paved roads and structures of various kinds spread about, the landscape may seem more flattened and we may not be totally aware that we are dealing with some fairly dramatic inclines.  A motor vehicle makes it seem easy.  But think for a minute about our forbears in the 1700s and 1800s pushing a wheelbarrow or trying to maneuver a horse and wagon, the principal modes of t...

Boston crosses a grim threshold: 1,000 COVID-19 deaths ‘COVID is real, it’s not a fantasy,’ said the daughter of one victim By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated December 29, 2020, 3:23 p.m. Email to a Friend When Chaplain Clementina Chery thinks back on her mother’s death from COVID-19, one question still stings. It came on April 18, the day her mother, Zoila Weddborn, was admitted to Boston Medical Center. She had been so ill she had been bedridden for two weeks. Getting a COVID test, however, was difficult. It was still the early stages of the pandemic, when tests were ...

Your Religion News: Dec. 12, 2020 Whately Congregational Church is selling a 250th anniversary calendar for 2021. Contributed photo Published: 12/13/2020 2:29:53 PM Sunday at 2 p.m.: A Common Memorial GREENFIELD — Join the Interfaith Council of Franklin County and the Cathedral in the Light community for a celebration of the lives of those who have died this year — especially those who died from COVID-19, the unhoused, or those of us without the benefit of community or a service of celebration: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2 p.m., on the Greenfield Common. Nationally, December is the month for memor...

Community News Share For the past 12 years, hundreds of hardy Mainers have taken a thrilling, chilling polar bear dip into the Atlantic Ocean to support bold climate action in Maine. This year’s Polar Bear Dip & Dash event, organized annually by the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will be no different except all the participants will be doing it virtually across Maine in a place and time of their choosing over a two-weekend period starting in late December. The 13th annual Natural Resources Council of Maine Polar Bear Dip & Dash to benefit bold climate action and accelerating the transi...