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Following the annual New England Food Show in Boston on Tuesday, more than ten volunteers and employees from the nonprofit Food for Free loaded up a truck with more than 50 boxes full of unused food.
The boost is part of a $130 million plan that the Mass. Legislature and Gov. Maura Healey agreed to in order to provide heightened monthly SNAP benefits, but only for another three months, now that the federal emergency payments have ended.
Inflation in grocery store prices and the end of most COVID support programs have food pantry workers bracing for a food crisis they think is worse than the height of the pandemic.
Cape Cod Chorale (CCC) and Choral Art Society of the South Shore (CAS), two of Eastern Massachusetts’ community choral ensembles, join forces this spring in honor of CCC’s 40th anniversary season in concert, performing “Mozart and Two Mendelssohns,” on Saturday, May 6, 4 pm at Scituate Center for the Performing Arts, 606 Chief Justice Cushing Hwy.
They are pilfering information from those who are vulnerable