Dog-sharing app connects owners to the canine-deprived

Dog-sharing app connects owners to the canine-deprived

BOSTON – During a rainy Sunday afternoon, Sean Huang drove up with Mars, his 9-month-old Boston Terrier. With supplies in hand and a spray bottle of perfume – because Mars was "staying with ladies" – Huang said the dog seemed to smile as he handed off his excited pooch to that day's borrower.

Volunteers and students create and cooperate at Martin Luther King day of service
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Volunteers and students create and cooperate at Martin Luther King day of service

Beth Treffeisen

BOSTON – More than 650 students and volunteers streamed into a crowded lunchroom at Boston Latin School, where arts and crafts supplies were scattered throughout the color-coded cafeteria tables.

On the agenda: spending part of the snowy Monday morning, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, by creating "reading success kits" and other items students could use to improve their reading skills and learn about the man at the center of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.

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