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When You’re 16 And Reeling From The World And Its Weightiness
Because the weight of the world IS heavy
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Massachusetts Launches SWIM Program to Provide Free Swim Lessons Statewide
Massachusetts is looking for partners to offer free swimming lessons to Massachusetts residents of all ages through the Safe Water Initiative Massachusetts…
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Operation Lights Out Seeks To Ensure Sex Offenders Don’t Hand Out Candy On Halloween
Probation officers visited the homes of sex offenders on probation in several cities in Massachusetts on Halloween to make sure their front…
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Cambridge Public Library To Host Pride Flag Art Workshop For Children
Cambridge public library is set to host a Pride flag art workshop for children ages 5-11 and their families. "Join…
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Language Arts Class Leads Amherst Fifth-Graders To Campaign For Statewide ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’
Fifth-grade students in Amherst are calling on state legislators to ditch Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day, as…
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Salem Public Library To Hold ‘LGBTQ Movie’ Night
Salem Public Library is scheduled to host an "LGBTQ Movie Event" showing Love, Simon, a movie about a closeted homosexual…
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Agawam Public Library Hosting ‘Tween Pride Party’ For Grades 5-8
Agawam Public Library is scheduled to host a "Tween Pride Party" tonight for grades 5-8. "Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride…
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Bernie Sanders Says Social Media Use Is Hurting Teen Mental Health
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) sees a problem with teen social media use. The self-described democratic socialist says he…
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Junior High Girls In Plymouth: Dress Code Is Harming Our Mental Health
Girls are being treated unfairly and some are experiencing mental health problems because the public schools in Plymouth require midriffs, shoulders, and…
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Summer Camps Reopen In Rhode Island — With Strict Limits
As of Monday, June 29, summer camps could open back up in Rhode Island. The camps in the state were allowed to…
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Nine-Month Old Twins Abandoned Near Railroad Tracks
Railroad workers found twin baby boys about nine months old near railroad tracks in Worcester around midnight last night. The babies, who…
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Drag Queen Has Monthly Gig Presenting To Little Kids At Greenfield Public Library
The Greenfield Public Library is planning to host a drag queen telling stories to elementary school children on Saturday morning, as part…
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Beloved Shoeshiner Dies, Raises $200,000 For Sick Children
Albert Lexie, 76, of Monessen, PA, a shoeshiner who died October 16, may have only earned about $10,000 a year over…
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12-Year-Old Cell-Phone-Talking Bicyclist Crashes Into Back of Truck
A 12-year-old girl riding her bike on the sidewalk while talking on a cell phone was injured when she lost…
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Mother Bagged for Leaving Kids in Car At Supermarket
A 32-year-old mother left her 5-year-old and 2-year-old children in an unlocked car in the parking…
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Father of Teen-Ager Who Fell Into A Sewer Drain Suing City
A 16-year-old boy was walking home in Nashua, New Hampshire during a heavy rainstorm when he well into a sewer…
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Patriots Receiver’s Children’s Book Makes Reading List in Framingham School
Lauren Baker, the wife of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, planned to read The Magician's Hat by New England Patriots wide…
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Global Warming Believers Encourage Kids To Get Involved, Change Parents’ Minds
Nearly 100 students from all over Cape Cod heard from climate change activists during a daylong event at Cape Cod Academy in…
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Single Mother Decides to Homeschool, Has Her Children Taken Away
A single mother felt her children's school district was failing them, so she decided to homeschool them. Now she'…
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The boys fall into the gender gap
Reading is not for sissies, as the front page of the newspaper demonstrates every morning in the homestretch of a raucous presidential…
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Dorchester family brings two sisters into their home
BOSTON – On a cold Friday evening, three sisters gathered around an iPad in the living room of a Dorchester home. On the…
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Foster grandparents enrich toddlers’ lives – and vice versa
BOSTON – Toddlers bounced around the classroom in the Head Start site on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester, playing with toys, building with blocks…
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Boston cancels school ahead of snowstorm
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh closed Boston's public schools for Friday citing an approaching winter storm forecast to drop as much…
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Boston’s City Hall Plaza slated for a fun facelift
BOSTON – "Red Square," as Boston's brick-paved City Hall Plaza is widely known, is often described as a…
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Working moms fare best in Vermont, less so in Mass.
BOSTON – With Mother's Day around the corner it's a good time to reflect on the hard work and…
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Make way for ducklings – from classroom to pond
MILTON – In an annual tradition, children who attend Glover Elementary School line corridor walls and campus walkways to watch as ducklings hatched…
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How the Islamic State recruits and coerces children
This week the world once again witnessed an Islamic State's use of at least one child bomber, perhaps two.…
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Parents helpless in face of teen privacy laws
NEW ZEALAND – A young woman's heartbreaking story of her secret abortion and resultant infertility reveals what can happen when schools…
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Syria’s continuing humanitarian disaster seen in child’s face
(CNSNews.com) – As the United States, Russia and the rest of the international community continue their Syrian ceasefire discussions, the slaughter of…
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A millennial identified as a senior citizen and asked for discounts
Senior citizens are the new millennials. Wait until you see why. I've known that I've been different since…
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Research points to ‘app and drive’ as problem among teens
STATE HOUSE — A day after legislation aimed at reducing distracted driving died on Beacon Hill, new survey results were released indicating 68…
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Mass. Center for Civic Education promotes engaged citizenship among students
When history teacher Roger Desrosiers received a postcard from the Center for Civic Education in 1987 offering free classroom materials for the…
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New England states receive high marks for child well-being
New England can boast three of the top five states in the nation for children's overall well-being, according to…
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Family-friendly Massachusetts museum should be summer priority
Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, has helped create family memories for generations. It is one…
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Opioid battle takes a new direction thanks to local police
BOSTON – As opioids are killing Massachusetts residents at an alarming rate, the state's top leaders like Republican Gov. Charlie Baker…
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Japan praises boy who survived after abandoned by parents
TOKYO (AP) — The remarkable survival of a 7-year-old Japanese boy, abandoned in a forest by his parents who wanted to…
