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8,600 Still Without Natural Gas in Merrimack Valley Warned About Coming Freeze

Matthew McDonald

Some 8,600 natural gas customers in Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover still don't have service, which means they don't have heat — even as temperatures are expected to plummet below freezing Wednesday night.

State officials are encouraging residents to seek shelter elsewhere.

Waxing Case Flares Up In Massachusetts Gender-Identity Law Debate
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Waxing Case Flares Up In Massachusetts Gender-Identity Law Debate

Matthew McDonald

Advocates on either side of the gender-identity-law referendum clashed over whether the current law requires a female spa worker to provide a bikini wax for a biological male who identifies as a woman.

The Milton beauty parlor case, first reported by New Boston Post, provided one of several flashpoints during an hour-long debate Tuesday between Kasey Suffredini, co-chairman of the Yes on 3 campaign, and Andrew Beckwith, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, who argued for a No vote to repeal the law. The debate took place on Radio Boston on WBUR FM-90.9.

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