Entrepreneurs go from silent dances to aiding elders

Entrepreneurs go from silent dances to aiding elders

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The creators of Eversound, a wireless headphone system used to enhance group events, Jake Reisch and Matt Reiners won recognition from the U.S. Small Business Administration last week as the agency named them New England's Young Entrepreneurs of 2016, honoring their technology's ability to reconnect elders with their communities.

"We were totally humbled and weren't expecting it," Reisch said. "It's always nice for the team to see some acknowledgment."

Dig at Malcolm X Roxbury home turns up evidence of 1700s settlement
Massachusetts

Dig at Malcolm X Roxbury home turns up evidence of 1700s settlement

Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — An archaeological dig at the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston has turned up some surprising findings, but not necessarily related to the early life of the slain civil rights activist.

City archaeologist Joseph Bagley said this week that researchers digging outside the two-and-a-half story home have found kitchenware, ceramics and other evidence of an older settlement dating to the 1700s that they hadn't expected to find there.

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