The Boston Globe
Want a crack at the Charles? Don’t.
Surely, at some point during this year’s supremely cold and icy Boston winter, you’ve been tempted. Perhaps you’ve glanced out the window of a Red Line train on the way to work, seen the frozen expanse of the charles River, and imagined yourself...
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seconds with firsts
The United States picked up three silver medals on Wednesday, with Southborough, mass., native Korey Dropkin and partner Cory Thiesse losing to Sweden in the final of mixed doubles curling but being the first Americans to medal in the event. Vermont’s...
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THE GREEN WAY AROUND
The “Frostival Ferris Wheel” has been lighting up rose Fitzgerald kennedy greenway in Boston. The 75-foot gondola Ferris wheel, next to the greenway Carousel, is part of meet Boston’s Frostival campaign and will be in operation on selected days through...
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FROM MAGIC TO MISERY
Santa Clara, Calif. — for the Patriots, this one had it all. all bad. bad bunny. bad offense. bad pass protection. bad quarterbacking. bad karma. Just a bad night all around for the heretofore indomitable upstart new england Patriots. Your Pats, who...
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In Gloucester, a familiar grief
GLOUCESTER — Ricky Beal, layered for the cold, walked slowly into the rear of a fishermen’s hangout near this small city’s historic harbor. Beal, a day fisherman himself, quietly took a seat close to his friends at the long, rectangular bar at the...
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New Englanders past and present come together on other coast
san FRANCISCO — They’ve come from Watertown and Lexington, or pepperell by way of Kansas; some are longtime transplants to northern California, or just moved here from Brookline. They are among the diehards of pats nation who have gathered in san...
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OUT OF THE RED
People departed the citizenm boston back bay hotel through a red rotating door on Massachusetts avenue on Wednesday. the one Dalton building was seen through the door.
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Pumping some life Into downtown springfield
The vision is grand. in this city with a reputation as a down-on-itsluck former manufacturing hub, where the median income is $53,000 and a quarter of residents live in poverty, in a spot where there are now boarded-up storefronts, just up the street...
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ICE transfer operations spark uncertainty and fear in Maine
families of immigrants arrested in a federal surge in Maine last month are scrambling to find out even basic information about their loved ones, as the government swiftly transfers them to detention facilities hundreds of miles away. Erik...
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‘Help us understand this loss’
GLOUCESTER — Every pew and standing space at Saint ann Church in this coastal city was filled Sunday with parishioners and members of the tight-knit fishing community. They came, church leaders said, to honor “the families and all of those who have...
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As country rages, a closer look
the Justice Department said it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex pretti, a significant reversal in the department’s approach to his death that comes as masses of protesters took to frigid streets in Minneapolis,...
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We’re not ready for her close-up
Are you excited to see “melania”? not “moana” — “melania,” the new documentary about first lady melania Trump. The consensus, in most parts of deepblue massachusetts, is an emphatic no. But don’t be surprised if the movie, which arrives in theaters...
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A year after tragedy, the pain lives on
On Jan. 29, 2025, 67 people were killed when their flight collided with an army helicopter in washington. among the victims were several people affiliated with the skating club of boston: skater spencer Lane (left); husband-and-wife coaches Evgenia...
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‘I want my mom’
biddeford, maine — five-year-old keyli camila espin Vaca expected her mother to come pick her up after school on friday, just as she always did. but her mother never came. mayra Vaca Latacunga, 25, had dropped camila off at the biddeford primary school...
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A bone-chillin’, slip-smackin’, glorious return to Super Bowl
DENVER — It was just about suppertime back in snowy new England when patriot sophomore quarterback drake Maye effectively ended the afc championship game in snowy denver. With less than two minutes to play, on third and 5 from his own 41, Maye took the...
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A storm for the ages
a behemoth of a storm system thousands of miles wide and stretching across three time zones is headed to New england on sunday, expected to dump as much as 2 feet of snow in parts during one of the deepest cold spells of the season. it will be the...
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Maine officials get no answers on ICE
LEWISTON, Maine — Officials across Maine took a public stand against the Trump administration on Thursday, denouncing its enforcement tactics as immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carry out a sweeping immigration operation in the state. “in...
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LGBTQ hockey players, fans revel in TV show’s moment
On Thursday night, Td Garden will be bathed in rainbow lights, and the Boston Bruins will festoon their sticks with rainbowcolored pride Tape to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community during their annual hockey is for Everyone night. The event, which began...
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‘I thought I was going to die’ in Brown attack
providence — with a broad smile on his face, but a bullet still lodged in his leg, spencer yang returned to Brown University on Monday, 38 days after he was wounded in a mass shooting on campus that killed two fellow students and wounded another eight...
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The 411 on complaints to Boston’s 311 system
A 500-square-foot apartment rents for $3,400 here. Leggings are $100. seafood curry is $43. And parking in this high-end slice of the seaport? Well, that’s oftentimes worth a complaint to 311. during 2025, a stretch of Congress street was the most...
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An ugly win gives Patriots a beautiful shot at Super bowl
foxborough — Playing for three-plus hours in what we like to call “wintry mix,” the Patriots beat the dome-home houston texans, 28-16, at gillette on sunday and will face the top-seeded denver broncos in the afc championship game at mile high next...
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picturing the bicentennial
Old cameras, tripods, portraits on a brick wall, and stacks of narrow trays with more than a million slides are all around the eclectic East Boston home and studio of photographer Lou Jones. he’s taken pictures of Central American war zones, 13...
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A memorable breakthrough
QUINCY — brigadier general Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse II, a Roxbury native and one of the last surviving Tuskegee airmen, celebrated his 99th birthday Wednesday in Quincy, surrounded by longtime friends and fellow patriots — and a giant gingerbread cookie...
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Trump faces blowback as probe of Fed chief roils Washington
Washington — With Americans still struggling with the high cost of living, President Trump has scrambled recently to show he’s working on the problem: calling for a cap on credit card interest rates, touting efforts to make housing more affordable, and...
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IT’S Official, THEY ARE READY TO SERVE
Top, Jabulani D. Lindsay with his son, Kenzo, 2; daughter, Janiyah, 5; and sister Tamauya Lindsay, as Police Commissioner Michael A. Cox looked on at the graduation ceremony Friday for the boston Police Department Recruit Class 66-25. Left, a cheering...
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For relatives of overdose victims, some much-needed help
At times, sandra spadafora feels trapped in the memory of the september afternoon in 2019, when she learned her 33-year-old son, Andrew brown, had gone missing. there were frantic calls to boston area hospitals and drug detoxification centers before a...
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THE FLU IS BACK. AND IT’S SURGING.
Massachusetts is experiencing a sharp, unusually fast-moving surge of flu illnesses, with cases and hospitalizations climbing to “very high” levels that are well above what physicians typically expect at this point in the winter. the state is on high...
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Maduro, calling self a POW, arraigned as drug kingpin
two days after being ripped from a compound in caracas, venezuela, nicolás Maduro, the captive president of venezuela, appeared in a new york city courthouse and pleaded not guilty to federal charges, declaring himself a “prisoner of war.” Maduro, who...
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For these homeowners, new Cape bridge exacts own cost
Joyce michaud never envisioned having to surrender her Cape Cod home and the views it offered of the sagamore Bridge. But in about a week, she’ll have to. Down the street, Dave Collins won’t have to give up his house — but wonders if it would be...
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charities see intimidation in harder mass. cass line
it was approaching noon on the frigid saturday before Christmas when a caravan of vehicles packed to their ceilings with backpacks of winter clothing, hygiene products, and the opioid-reversal drug narcan arrived near the troubled intersection of...
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When police are allowed to police themselves
Prosecutor brooke hartley was 18 seconds into her defense of a fentanyl bust when a judge interrupted. he wanted to know if boston police had really refused to tell the district attorney almost anything about the confidential informant at the heart of...
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With warm memories, skating club carries on after tragedy
For the late Jinna Han, the Skating club of boston’s annual First night performance at boston common was a chance to show off the skills that had made her a rising star in competitive figure skating at just 13. “She was born to captivate a crowd,”...
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With a journalist’s voice, she wrote of family’s latest tragedy
Tatiana schlossberg, an environmental journalist and a daughter of caroline kennedy — and granddaughter of president John f. kennedy — whose harrowing essay about her rare and aggressive blood cancer drew worldwide sympathy and praise for Ms....
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At last, their day in the sun
It was particularly cold and windy for a November day, but that didn’t matter to Ginger Gonsalves and becky Kelliher. The sun was out, and no one counted the seconds in the open air. No one suggested retreating inside. “I don’t know why my eyes water...
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$100,000 H-1B visa fee could gut special education at schools
When president trump announced this fall that employers would have to start paying $100,000 to hire foreign-born workers on an h-1b visa, he focused on big companies like amazon and google being “very happy” to pay. at the higashi school in Randolph,...
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In a race to save the oceans’ diversity
nahant — On a rocky outcropping a few miles northeast of boston harbor, scientists are racing to build a library of tissue and dna from ocean creatures — before it is too late. It’s a last-ditch effort. as global warming drives ocean temperatures ever...
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A couple little miracles
Abby Wood had wanted to be a mother for as long as she could remember. “Ever since i was little, i used to play teacher, and i used to play mom,” she said. What she didn’t expect was how much would stand in the way. Wood, of Epping, n.h., began...
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THE JOYS OF TOYS
Jeremias Dacosta, 5, laughed with santa (otherwise known as William schaaf ) at the annual Menino toy Drive on Wednesday. Dacosta’s family was one of 300 who received free holiday gifts at the Catholic Charities teen Center at st. Peter’s parish in...
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Keeping the flame burning
south DEERFIELD — it might seem like the world is falling apart sometimes, but there is one place where “it’s always Christmas,” just like the sign says, and that’s the scented-candle flagship store known as yankee Candle village. people come to this...
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As chaos, peril gripped Brown, these firefighters charged in
Providence — Two young students were on the pavement of manning walk, bleeding from gunshot wounds. Bystanders sought to comfort them, trying to reassure them as the students groaned in agony. They would be OK. One took off his shirt and pressed it...
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O’ holy-moly Night!
ipswich — it started small. That’s what they all say, when asked how it got beyond big. rich Galicki used to decorate his family home with his mother, and a few times they even won a silver bowl that used to be given out for the best holiday display...
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Two lives full of promise, cut short in a horrifying instant
Ella Cook in the days since the deadly mass shooting at Brown university, some have portrayed Ella cook as a staunch partisan, a conservative crusader on a campus of liberals. Her friends remember her for something much simpler: “carpet time” on her...
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Suspect in Brown shooting, professor’s killing found dead
This story was reported by Lea Skene, Amanda Milkovits, Dan Mcgowan, Steph Machado, Sean Cotter, Alexa Gagosz, Steven Porter, and Shelley Murphy, and was written by Skene. a manhunt that lasted over five days and spanned three states came to a sudden,...
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Shots, then a race for their lives
PROVIDENCE — not everyone recognized the sound of gunfire. Drew nelson did: He grew up next to a Marine Corps base and immediately knew the sound of a firearm. Refath Bari was hearing the strange staccato pops for the first time, noting their surreal,...
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Still no answers
providence — authorities have released new video of a man they called a person of interest in the brown University shooting walking in the neighborhood near campus earlier saturday before the attack that killed two and injured nine others. Yet more...
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Lives cut short: political leader, aspiring doctor
Last week, Ella cook and mukhammadaziz umurzokov were normal college students living normal college lives: exhaustively studying for exams, patronizing a usual smoothie shop, getting ready to reunite with family during winter break in just a few short...
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‘In many ways, it’s starting to feel like death by a thousand cuts’
the trump administration’s efforts to remake Harvard University have slowed considerably since an initial onslaught of funding cuts was rejected in federal court. But as the fall semester comes to a close, the casualties on campus are adding...
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Noem forced to think twice on whether vets being deported
Noem forced to think twice on whether vets being deported Homeland security secretary Kristi noem was engaged in the familiar routine of congressional hearings thursday, basking in Republican praise and fending off attacks from democrats over the...
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Lowest test scores just part of problem for Holyoke schools
holyoke — it’s before dawn and the lemelins’ home is filled with the sounds of ebullient chaos: four children, all under the age of 12, preparing for their school day. mason, a sixth-grader, initially puts his shirt on backward. his 8-year-old...
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down in the Clouds
it’s been a colder than normal december so far and tuesday morning was one of the most frigid starts, even in boston, where the steam was rising on tremont street with temperatures in the low teens.
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No cash, no problem
betsy leondar-wright is rolling in it. she can afford to get help around the house, take photography lessons, and buy custom-made jewelry. All without spending a dime. instead, she boasts an account stacked not with dollars, but “time credits” issued...
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A community angered — and wary — after president’s scorn
lewiston, Maine — saleh Mahamud, an imam in this mid-maine city, finished his noontime prayers and pointed to a rear window and door in a mosque that serves the religious needs of lewiston’s large somali population. Gunshots pierced both the window...
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A return to a life they knew
when fred baker fractured his spine in a motorcycle accident in 2009, his first thought was how he would continue his hobbies — skiing, motorcycling, fishing at his family’s lake house, and hunting. “the injury was the injury,” baker said. “My...
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A diploma and something more
in Jean Labelle-pierce’s “senior project” class at maynard High school on a recent day, one student was researching the Un’s response to war crimes in syria; another, the ethics of breeding animals; a third, pediatric patient recovery. A day before,...
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Keeping the faith for detained pastor
They assembled as usual sunday morning and delivered an urgent prayer, a plea for mercy amid the second Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The message was personal for members of saints Tabernacle of worshipinstow. Almost a month had passed...
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Words of welcome for English learners
After Cynthia soto moved to the united states from the Dominican Republic, it took six years before she could afford to bring her kids to Boston last year. when they arrived, her two youngest started school at Blackstone Elementary in the south End,...
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Defense: Walshe lied, but didn’t kill wife
DEDHAM — As the murder trial of Brian r. Walshe began on Monday, his lawyers, for the first time, laid out his defense: Though he indeed moved his wife’s corpse and lied to police about it, he’d only done so in an irrational panic after she suddenly...
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Agencies that serve vulnerable may finally receive oversight
Doug hano has struggled for years to find reliable care for his wife, kirsten, who has early-onset alzheimer’s disease. Once a “rock star” in the advertising industry, kirsten, 58, now needs help with most basic tasks, including dressing, taking a...
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Christmas tree farms ready with seasonal best
Jeff Taylor’s 14-acre hillside in richmond, n.h., is blanketed in christmas trees. during the holiday season, Taylor said, he typically sells out in a matter of days. This year, Taylor has been tending to the trees with some concern. drought...
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Trying to get Canadians to cross border is an uphill climb
Jay, Vt. — Josh zulick drove eight hours last week from his pennsylvania home to the powder-packed slopes of Vermont’s northernmost ski mountain. “Just chasing the snow,” he said as he stepped into a pair of salomons at the base of Jay peak...
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RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
BEVERLY — it’s 3 a.m. on cabot street, the uneasy hour that can’t decide if it’s very late or very early, and stephanie graham slides a key in the lock to open the side door of her bakery, Bonny Breads. forty minutes earlier, her alarm had gone off,...
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Birds’ eye view
it’s that time of year at Bob’s Turkey Farm in Lancaster, and richard Van hoof, whose late father started the business, held a 32-pound broadbreasted turkey, one of thousands raised and butchered on the farm. At left, one of the colorful male faces as...
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The fall of an economic principal
a towering figure on the international stage, Lawrence H. summers has used his deep knowledge of economics to quell business distress at home and abroad, lift barriers to a Harvard education for low-income students, and ease the pain of the Great...
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In houses of worship, immigrants’ fears heard
NEW BEDFORD — People came here from around the world to work the docks, man whaling ships, process fish, and make textiles in the mills. as waves of immigrants settled on the south coast, they established places of worship as a way to keep the faith...
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Federal government little help as Maine battles HIV outbreak
BAngor — steven Cronk, 41, sleeps among a row of tattered, sun-bleached tents that cling to a small strip of land between this city’s rusting railroad tracks and the Penobscot river. he estimated that most of the roughly five dozen people in this...
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A community pillar, now deemed a danger
Lamar d. Cook was a child of Springfield. Growing up in a close-knit Black community in Western Massachusetts, he played outside under his grandmother’s watchful eye. in the summer, he climbed fences and doused his brothers with water balloons. He...
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More Than a pet peeve
As the price of veterinary care skyrockets, some pet owners in massachusetts are taking drastic measures to afford the cost of tending to their furry friends. in Paty garcia’s case, that includes crossing international borders. next month, garcia and...
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Father details struggle with ICE
FITCHBURG — A Fitchburg man involved in a violent struggle with immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Thursday said an agent pushed him, hit around his ribs, and pressed on his neck, causing him to become unconscious as he clung to his wife and...
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Disruption is set to reach a new level
Travelers are bracing for disruption and confusion at Logan and dozens of other high-traffic airports across the country on Friday as federal officials imposed an unprecedented reduction in plane traffic as a safety measure during the government...
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In bustling davis square, an Unwelcome change
SOMERVILLE — Below Davis Square, the outreach center the Somerville Homeless coalition has used for 40 years is a refuge. The coffee is hot and a free breakfast awaits, as does help getting into a home. Above ground, it’s often a different story. And...
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a day of ins and outs
boston mayor michelle wu, who in her first term transformed from a progressive leader in local politics into an ascending figure of the national Democratic opposition, officially secured a second term as polls closed Tuesday, the decisive end to a...
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us will tap contingency funds for partial food aid payments
The Trump administration on monday told a federal judge in rhode island that it will tap contingency funds to make partial food assistance payments for 42 million lowincome and disabled people across the nation this month. The move comes after federal...
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Farm to . . . closet
For meg Falcone, it began with just three sheep: Briar rose, honeysuckle, and Blackeyed susan. As her affection for the animals grew, so did her flock, which now counts 60 shetland sheep. And over the years, her bills to keep the sheep healthy and fed...
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‘I don’t know what I’m going to do’
kelly russell was on the hunt for food to feed herself and her two children. her first stop on Wednesday, just days before snap benefits were expected to be paused for 1 million Massachusetts residents because of the government shutdown, was to dish,...
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