Members of the Quincy School Committee are mulling whether to add Lunar New Year as a school holiday next school year.
Quincy has a large number of Asian students who celebrate Lunar New Year, which occurs sometime between January 21 and February 19, and a large number of families have asked school officials to make it a school holiday.
Worcester officials are considering a proposal to increase the maximum age someone can begin as a city police officer because it's so much harder to recruit people to become police officers than it used to be.
"We used to have thousands of people take that exam, and now you have 300 Worcester residents," said Worcester's interim police chief, Paul Saucier, during a meeting last week of the city council's Public Safety Committee, according to a video of the meeting.
