Brookline Ditches School Name — Because 18th Century Benefactor Edward Devotion Owned A Slave

Brookline Ditches School Name — Because 18th Century Benefactor Edward Devotion Owned A Slave

Brookline Town Meeting has voted to change the name of Edward Devotion Elementary School because the namesake owned a slave.

Edward Devotion (1667-1744) left the town of Brookline money in his will to start a school, which the town did in 1891, 147 years after he died.

Charlton Residents Up In Arms Over Marijuana Mega-Facility
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Charlton Residents Up In Arms Over Marijuana Mega-Facility

John Cronin

The central Massachusetts town of about 13,000 would host a 400,000-square-foot marijuana-growing facility on 94 acres that would eventually grow to 1.2 million square feet, according to a deal worked out between the town's Board of Selectmen and Valley Green Grow.

Town officials tout the potential revenue from the $100 million facility, but selectmen got an earful from residents worried about the smell, traffic, and negative effect on property values, according to MassLive.com.

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