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

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"

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Swing dancing climbs in popularity among Hub newcomers

BOSTON – More than 100 colleges and universities call the Hub home and while many students and young professionals spend time learning to Dougie or whip and nae nae in dance clubs, others find friends and have fun in the area's vibrant swing-dancing community. The traditional dance form dating

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Portuguese fest draws out varied Hub community

CAMBRIDGE – On a warm Thursday evening, both young and old Portuguese-Americans packed the Filarmónica de Santo António Cultural Center in East Cambridge as part of an effort to gather immigrants and their families. "It's very important to bring people together," said Ângela Crespo the chapter co-leader

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Salsa dancing gives growing crowds fun way to meet friends

CAMBRIDGE – Couples paired off on the dance floor Saturday night as instructor Liliana Jimenez shouted out some moves. "You always want to cha-cha-cha before your next step – one, two, three and four, cha-cha-cha," Jimenez showed her students.

Massachusetts

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 U.S. Constitution's bicentennial, little did he know that the organization would become his life's work. After decades of promoting the study of American

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Meehan sees ‘reasonable’ increase in UMass student costs in 2016-17

STATE HOUSE — The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees is expected to take up tuition and fee rates at a pair of June meetings, setting the stage for what UMass President Marty Meehan has predicted could be a "reasonable" rate increase. Tuition and fees will be on the

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UMass divests from fossil fuel industry that ‘perpetuates injustice’

(CNSNews.com) – The winters are cold in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the state university relies on a modern central heating plant that burns natural gas most of the time, switching to fuel oil when gas is not available. But no matter.

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In R.I., US defense secretary Carter calls for faster technology development

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Wednesday that a naval facility in Rhode Island is doing what the entire Defense Department should do: develop technology more quickly. Carter made the comments about the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport after he visited the center