A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State!
ARTS
Film Review: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — House Arrest in Iran
The Arts Fuse
A look at the latest outing from a director whose films are all banned in his home country.
Imagine a world without prisons – ‘On the Eve of Abolition’ takes you there
The Bay State Banner
A play that first debuted in Puerto Rico now makes its way to Boston.
FAITH
New Episcopal Bishop to visit St. John the Evangelist church for institution of Ninth Rector
The Anchor (Hingham)
A new bishop will install a new priest at a South Shore parish.
FOOD
Barbecue Braised Pork Belly
The Lexington Observer
Ah, a publication that runs recipes. I approve.
EDUCATION
Plymouth wins $678,000 to prepare high school students for clean energy careers
Plymouth Independent
Now here’s irony for you (for a town that housed a nuclear power plant for a half century).
ENVIRONMENT
Newton chokes on North Shore brush fire smoke
The Newton Beacon
Wildfires in late October in Massachusetts? Yup … nothin’ to see here …
GOVERNMENT
Simonds Park Improvements on the Horizon
Burlington Buzz
A local park slated to get a nice makeover.
Final $800k from Larz Anderson Trust reignites ice-rink discussion
Marblehead Current
This kind of thing usually only happens in towns where rich people live. But points for a public-spirited act.
City hall says no to Gaza ceasefire petition
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Yet another swing and miss in the Woo.
Fields Corner library, age 55, gets a grand farewell
Dorchester Reporter
New library incoming for a Boston neighborhood.
What residents do — and don’t —want built on MCI-Concord land
The Concord Bridge
Now that the old state prison is shut down and the town that hosted it has some choice in what becomes it, what do residents want to replace it.
Pink House demolition on hold
The Local News (Ipswich)
An iconic structure gets a stay of execution from Gov. Healey.
HOUSING
Waitlisted Cantabrigians squeezed out of city could find affordable housing possible again
Cambridge Day
This reform won’t increase the overall amount of public housing in Cambridge, but will make it easier for out-of-towners to access some of it. Seems like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic from this corner.
Racist Property Deeds Weigh Heavy on Reparations Commission
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
It continues to astound me that racially-restrictive covenants still exist on property deeds around the Commonwealth.
25-Story Hotel Plan Draws Critical Reviews
Sampan
Let’s see what the Chinatown community groups can shake down the latest set of developers for this time around …
Housing Tensions Crop Up In Community Preservation Committee
Sudbury Weekly
And people wonder why it’s difficult to get more affordable housing built in the burbs.
LIFESTYLE
Wellesley’s Nantucket Road has become a giant inflatable pumpkin patch
The Swellesley Report
Oooo …
LABOR
Pacific Rail Services workers join Teamsters Local 170
The Worcester Guardian
Amazing that there are still un-unionized rail workers.
POLITICS
State rep candidate St. Gelais mired in fraud case over neighbor’s home
The New Bedford Light
Truly disgusting behavior on display on the South Coast.
TRANSPORTATION
$4m grant for Mass. Ave./Appleton changes about half what is needed
YourArlington.com
Improving bike lanes and pedestrian crossings at a trouble major intersection is apparently a relatively low priority for Arlington.
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