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In the last decade, the number of families seeking assistance from Interfaith Social Services has nearly doubled, leading the group to seek funding to expand services.

The Newburyport Art Association is hosting a series of classes for veterans.

Recreations of classic Italian dishes — freshly made pasta, arancini, red sauce — all come from recipes stored in Roseann Jaworski’s memory.

The Brockton NAACP will host two events at the Brockton Public Library on Oct. 23 and 24 to connect K-12 students with more than 50 STEM organizations and programs.

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Former soccer player Shawna Sullivan is now a kicker on the freshman team.

The owner of the former hospital site wants to build 598 housing units on the 15-acre property that is being rebranded “The Hill.”

Hull school officials met recently with 20 area realtors to sell them on the town as a good place for families to buy homes because of the schools.

A $29,202 state grant will allow residents to have more fun in the winter.

A Special Town Meeting in Concord voted to accept the donation to the town of a land parcel surrounding a portion of White Pond.

The City Council approved a resolution Monday defending transgender rights ahead of a critical statewide ballot vote that could decide the fate of an anti-discrimination law.

According to officials, contamination is a growing concern for municipal recycling programs across the state.

City officials are offering creative thinkers a chance to test out their ideas while helping Somerville meet its challenges.

The Community Center/Council on Aging addition would triple the size of the facility, while the library addition would double the space of the library portion of the town hall/library building.

The Discovery Gala: The Art of Science will help raise funds for the Discovery Museum’s accessible programs on Oct. 20.

The nonprofit Talking Information Center, which provides reading services to 30,000 people with visually impairments, will host its 40th Anniversary Gala on Nov. 1.

The Somerville Public Library will introduce a community gardening and cooking initiative starting this winter.

Henry and Dowling looked at more than a dozen potential spots for their pub. Then they heard about the location tucked just off Great Plain Avenue in Needham.

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After 25 years as an online retailer of custom-fit fangs, special effects makeup, and cryptic fragrances, Vampfangs has opened a brick-and-mortar store in Salem.

Nordlund Associates is currently seeking tenants for the remaining spaces of the planned development.

The Plymouth area will be receiving just over $1 million in federal money over the next two years to help deal with the opioid crisis.

“Weymouth has gone from [having] some of the worst playing fields to among the best on the South Shore,” said Mayor Robert Hedlund.

The state’s Office of Coastal Zone Management awarded the city $216,560 for the project through its Coastal Resilience program.

The cages and uniforms were funded by a grant from a program supported by Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association.

“The Methuen Rotary and I-93 interchange project has been a long time coming and it is exciting to see it come to fruition,” US Representative Niki Tsongas said in a statement.

The head of a firm that seeks to set up a medical marijuana dispensary in the city has formed a committee opposing a proposed ban on recreational pot sales.

North Shore Community College recently opened a Student Veterans Center at the Lynn campus similar to the one on its Danvers campus for the past few years.

The city has paid over $65,000 in fines because of food, plastic bags, and other unacceptable waste in recycling carts.

The city’s Code Enforcement Task Force recently created a unit dedicated to investigating the apartments and taking enforcement action when they are identified.

August J. Petersen’s 1963 gift of $65,000 grew into approximately $2 million in the years that the town debated where and how to build the pool.

The brightly colored work will be fabricated during a 60-hour Mosaic Marathon from Saturday, Oct. 13, through Friday, Oct. 19, inside Studio at Three Adams, on Adams Street.

Samuel Wilson was the Arlington native whose name is said to have been the source of the Uncle Sam character personifying the United States.

O’Neil Fine Builders announced a fund-raising drive for JD Martz, a 29-year-old who was paralyzed last year.

John Monem, who has owned the Furniture Building since 1993, has challenged the taking, filing suit in Plymouth Superior Court on Sept. 28.

A Special Town Meeting voted 50 to 45 to prohibit recreational marijuana businesses through the municipality’s general bylaws. The ban still needs to be approved by voters in a Nov. 6 ballot question.

Recycling cafeteria waste is a challenge at the city’s K-8 schools because no matter how well children sort their materials, leftover milk, juice, and food scraps find their way into the recycling bins.

Framingham State University held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of Rams Resource Center, a food pantry for the university community.

Visitors can participate in hands-on archaeology activities while they explore the everyday life of Plymouth Colony at the Harlow House.

Gallery Nantasket will hold its grand reopening on Oct. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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The motel was closed by the town’s Board of Health more than a year ago after a shooting.

The department will replace 27 self-contained breathing apparatus with $185,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 2017 Assistance to Firefighters Grant.

The town will hold a community forum on Thursday, Oct. 4, to seek public feedback on a draft plan for Arlington Heights.

Jonny “Carrotseed” Belber rode 50 miles from Scituate to Boston and back to raise awareness of the need for organic produce in food pantries.

City officials have been conducting a community outreach effort to gauge public views regarding possible land use, regulation, and zoning changes to the area.

P.A.A.R.I. was awarded funding to help the Burlington, Wilmington, and Woburn police departments bolster their efforts to combat the opiate epidemic.

The city signed C40 Cities’ Advancing Towards Zero Waste Declaration, a pledge to cut by 2030 the amount of waste generated by each citizen and being sent to landfills and incineration.

The new apartment building on the site of a fire-ravaged building will serve as a sober affordable rental housing facility.

Library Director Robert MacLean said the amount of money collected in fines has been decreasing as more people download e-books.