House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo announced the House passed legislation that lifts a decades-old family welfare cap. The family cap limited access to Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC) benefits to children born prior to the date a family first…
The Robert Dutton, MD Adult Day Health Center in Wakefield Transfers Ownership to the Community Family
The Community Family, Inc. and Melrose Wakefield Healthcare are pleased to announce that ownership of the Robert Dutton, MD Adult Day Health Center in Wakefield is being transferred to The Community Family. For more than two decades the Dutton Center…
Guest Op-ed Looking at Women as Heroes
The son of the late Lillian and John R. Sweeney Sr., he was a graduate of Vesper George College of Arts in Boston, School of St. Philip Neri in Boston and St. Francis University in Loretto, PA. He served in…
Letters to the Editor
Zoning Redesignations Needed Dear Editor, My name is Stephen and I am a residential sales agent and residential development consultant based out of Winthrop. My home is located in Precinct 6, so issues related to zoning and development along Winthrop…
Another Sign of Climate Change
“Historically catastrophic” flooding is the description of what has been happening across our nation’s Midwestern Plains states this past week, thanks to a combination of heavy snows and unseasonably cold weather followed by unusually heavy rains. When most of us…
Tragedy, Sadness in New Zealand
New Zealand is a beautiful country that seems far removed, both literally and figuratively, from the problems facing the rest of our troubled planet. However, the tragic shootings at two mosques in New Zealand this past Friday have demonstrated that…