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Pressley Visits ABCD Head Start in Jamaica Plain, Highlights Threat of Project 2025 to Early Education

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During National Book Month, Pressley Toured ABCD and Read to Head Start Children Project 2025 Would Eliminate Head Start and Deny 11,000 Massachusetts Children Childcare Access and Other Services BOSTON – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force, visited ABCD Jamaica Plain Head Start & Children’s Services to highlight the threat of Project 2025 to early education in…

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Brockton Native Noel Gourdin to Perform at the 2024 Community Heroes Celebration

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98.1 FM Urban Heat Check out R&B singer-songwriter and Brockton native Noel Gourdin (20:22 to 30:22) on Urban Heat discussing his upcoming appearance at the 2024 Community Heroes Celebration on November 1st! https://fb.watch/voYEhClDKu

Grand Opening of ABCD Operated MassHire Metro North Career Center in Woburn  

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Anti-poverty agency chipping away at labor shortages and upskilling workforce WHO: ABCD President and CEO Sharon Scott-Chandler, Masshire Metro North Workforce Board President and CEO Chris Albrizio-Lee, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Undersecretary of Workforce Development Alysia Ordway, Woburn Mayor Mike Concannon, Massachusetts State Senator Cindy Friedman, Representative Michelle Ciccolo of Lexington and members of the Woburn City…

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Special program in Boston trains residents to become solar workers

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Timothy Edwards uses a power drill to fasten the array frame together as Narkeisha Gilbert and Lhoucine Bouhaddou hold it in place during the solar technician training class. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Instructor Carlos Antunes watched as his students, wielding power drills and socket wrenches, assembled metal racks on the floor, then mounted four large solar panels on them. “Don’t forget your…

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All Things Considered – Enrollment in Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) begins October 1st, 2024

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‘Survivor’ stories connect Southie, Fields Corner

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In 1993, just a few days before Christmas, 15-year-old Louis D. Brown was killed in a crossfire, while crossing Geneva Avenue near Fields Corner Station. A high school sophomore looking forward to college, he was on his way to youth meeting organized by Teens Against Gang Violence. Almost thirty-one years later, in time for International Peace Day on September 21,…

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