Want to talk about reading? Framingham barber is offering free haircuts
When kids get their hair cut by Cruzado at Farm Pond Park, it's free — as long as they talk with him about a book they read. When they arrive at the park, Cruzado peppers them with open-ended questions to guide the conversation and get kids to open up. According to a whiteboard set up at Farm Pond, students have read books such as "Have You Filled a Bucket Today? About 45 students — from rising kindergartners to high school students — are receiving free haircuts this summer. Haircuts are held outside at Farm Pond Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment.
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August 06, 2021 14:26 UTC
DC Theater Review: Detroit ’67 at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre has done quite nicely adapting to our not-entirely-voluntary age of virtual theater. Earlier this season, Matthew Gardiner’s digital productions of Simply Sondheim and Midnight at the Never Get, shot in collaboration with multimedia outfit Chiet Productions, both exuded Signature’s live theater pizzazz, while beautifully fulfilling the audio-visual demands of smooth on-screen presentation. But the company’s latest and final show in their digital Signature Features season, Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67 (★★☆☆☆), just misses that model combo of enthralling live theater rendered with televisual appeal. Director Candis C. Jones and the five-person cast, all making their Signature mainstage debuts, certainly carve out enthralling moments in Morisseau’s prize-winning play. Several lessons are spelled out, but only Chelle and Lank learning to understand each other better really bears much fruit.
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August 06, 2021 14:26 UTC
MetroWestSports Instagram: Check our latest stories here!
MetroWest Daily News and Milford Daily NewsWelcome from our metrowestsports Instagram page! Check the latest stories that our team has written below ...(🔒 in front of a story means it is available only to subscribers. Click/tap to see them for the MetroWest Daily News and the ones for the Milford Daily News.) Farrell was presented with the Hobey Baker High School Character Award, an honor given to high school hockey players who exemplify outstanding individual performance both on and off the ice. 🔒 Here's why:Kerryn O'Connell was named Daily News Female Athlete of the Year
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August 06, 2021 12:01 UTC
Plant-centric Paradise Deli and Marketplace is coming to Allied Media Project's Love Building in Detroit
click to enlarge Courtesy photoNezaa Bandele. With Allied Media Projects, Bandele will develop her business Paradise Natural Foods into Paradise Deli and Marketplace.According to a press release, Paradise Deli and Marketplace will offer "plant-forward" meals, including grab-and-go catering orders. It will also have a marketplace featuring local producers, a coffee and juice bar, kitchen space for other food makers, and offer nutrition classes. "The deli and marketplace will be a place rooted in community where people can come, explore, expand their knowledge of healthy food and get educated about adopting a healthy lifestyle," Bandele said in a statement. "Paradise Deli and Marketplace says it plans to hire local Detroiters from the surrounding neighborhood.The project is aiming for completion in spring 2022.
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August 06, 2021 12:00 UTC
Recent Dover-Sherborn graduate Nick Rinaldi a three-sport TVL All-Star during senior year
He was also named a Daily News All-Star for track & field. “This year, it worked out perfectly.”“What a way to close out your high school career,” Dover-Sherborn athletic director Emily Sullivan said. In lone high school football season, Rinaldi named TVL All-StarOn the heels of a successful senior basketball season, one in which he shared the floor with his younger brother, Luke, and earned league All-Star honors, word began to spread around Dover-Sherborn that Rinaldi would join the football team. More:Dover-Sherborn's Nick Rinaldi shines in first high school football game“Nick was a first-year player and became an outstanding football player,” Ryan said. It’s serious.”After COVID-19 canceled his junior season, Rinaldi returned to the track and field this past spring.
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August 06, 2021 11:26 UTC
Keeping it local — farmers markets have rules for that. Here's how five operate.
There are few things as local as a town farmers market. It brings together local people, local vendors, and farmers markets have rules in place to make sure the produce and products are local, too. Edith Murnane is the executive director of Mass Farmers Market, a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of farmers in the state. The Daily News took a look at the rules and regulations at some farmers markets around the area and spoke with a few folks who run them to understand the reasoning behind that. The farmers market does not specifically state how much produce can come from other local farms.
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August 06, 2021 10:52 UTC
Agra Metro invites tender of worth Rs. 2200 Cr for underground section including 7 stations
The work also includes construction of seven underground stations namely – Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Jama Masjid, S.N. Medical college, Agra college, Raja ki Mandi and RBS college along with architectural finishing, E&M and other works. Important DetailsTender Reference Number: AGCC-02Name of Work: Design and Construction of Tunnel from start of underground ramp (near Fatehabad Road Metro station) to end of ramp after RBS college Metro station including seven underground metro stations (viz. Medical college, Agra college, Raja ki Mandi and RBS college) including Architectural finishes, E&M, TVS, ECS etc. Now this tender includes the construction of remaining underground section of Priority Corridor from Jama Masjid to Taj Mahal with 3 underground stations.
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August 06, 2021 10:46 UTC
Daily News All-Stars for girls lacrosse
She’ll play lacrosse at St. John Fisher College. This senior midfielder notched 52 goals and 18 assists, earning US Lacrosse All-American, EMGLCA first team All-Star and Dual County League All-Star honors. “She’s an amazing player and teammate.” A member of the Mass Elite Red Team, Brindisi also helps coach lacrosse in Sudbury. “She is not going to falter under pressure.” She’ll play lacrosse at Middlebury College. “She is the consummate teammate and has been an incredible leader.” Tobin will play lacrosse at Umass Amherst.
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August 06, 2021 09:22 UTC
Brothers return to Framingham Fire after COVID relief mission with National Guard
FRAMINGHAM — Jared and Josh Grigg spend their career helping others as Framingham firefighters/EMTs, but for the last eight months they’ve been helping keep people safe in another way. The brothers were activated as part of the National Guard and helped with COVID-19 relief efforts throughout the state. Jared Grigg, 32, is a staff sergeant with the National Guard, and has now returned to his duties as a firefighter. Josh Grigg, 30, a sergeant, remains active with the National Guard for a few more weeks before returning to work. “We certainly missed having them here part of our team, but we knew their mission with the National Guard was similar to our mission here — being in service to people of need,” said Dutcher.
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August 06, 2021 09:11 UTC
'I feel fulfilled' — Hopkinton Fire Chief Slaman to retire after 32 years with department
HOPKINTON — There’s no one reason that Stephen Slaman decided to retire as the town's fire chief. “I feel fulfilled.”On Tuesday night, the Select Board voted unanimously to appoint Deputy Fire Chief Bill Miller to become chief. He prefers to describe progress the department has made during his time as chief. “The town has grown a lot and I’m very excited that we have grown with the town,” Slaman said. I’m going to be a happy fire chief walking out of that door.”Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or nmiller@wickedlocal.com.
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August 06, 2021 09:00 UTC
Decades later, transforming the former Cadilac Paint factory into a park still underway
But he'd say he is just one of more than a dozen residents in the neighborhood trying to make a park a reality. Hart said shortly after the business closed, there was talk of reusing the property for commercial and industrial purposes. Remediation work has been completed over the past few decades so town officials say they believe the site to be safe for use by residents. Town Manager Michael Herbert said the town acquired the property from the owner through back taxes. Work to get rid of the fencing on the site is underway, Herbert said.
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August 06, 2021 09:00 UTC
No vacation: Rehabbing Red Sox ace Chris Sale all business while fitting in with WooSox at home, on the road
MOOSIC, Pa. — Yes, Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale was on the WooSox’ bus for its 4 p.m. departure Monday from Polar Park. More:Sold out for Sale: Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale packs Polar Park in rehab start with WooSoxThe left-hander isn't using his rehab outings as a minor league vacation. Until this road trip, his four previous rehab starts have all taken place at the home ballparks of the Red Sox affiliates. It started July 15 for the Florida Complex League Red Sox, before two outings in Maine for Double-A Portland, and one for Worcester. “Everywhere I’ve been — FCL Red Sox, Portland, Worcester — they’ve allowed me to butt in what they’re doing and be a part of that,” he said.
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August 06, 2021 09:00 UTC
South African study shows high COVID protection from J&J shot
The J&J vaccine was administered to healthcare workers from mid-February in a research study, which was completed in May, with 477,234 health workers vaccinated, joint lead investigator Glenda Gray told a media briefing. South Africa’s health regulator approved the J&J shot in April, and it is being used in the national vaccine programme alongside Pfizer’s. Gray said the single-shot J&J vaccine offered 91% to 96.2% protection against death, while offering 67% protection against hospitalisation when the Beta coronavirus variant dominates and about 71% protection against hospitalisation when the Delta variant dominates. “This was our primary endpoint and we are able to say this vaccine protected health workers against death,” she added. (This story corrects paragraph 4 to show protection rates are against hospitalisation, not infection.)
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August 06, 2021 06:40 UTC
Voting change sought by Brazil’s Bolsonaro defeated in Congress
The 34-member committee voted 23 to 11 to shelve the amendment that Bolsonaro had advocated for weeks, claiming the country’s electronic voting system is open to fraud. Critics say Bolsonaro, like former U.S. President Donald Trump, is sowing doubts in case he loses next year’s presidential election. The amendment called for adoption of printed receipts that can be counted if any election result is disputed, a paper trail that would change the current all-electronic voting system. Bolsonaro, who is expected to seek a second term, has spent hours on social media attacking the electronic voting system, without providing evidence of fraud. Bolsonaro’s comments came after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes approved an investigation into the president’s unfounded accusations that Brazil’s electronic voting system is vulnerable to fraud.
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August 06, 2021 00:33 UTC
Soccer-Disbelief in Argentina as Messi to leave Barcelona
(Reuters) – For the second time in a month football dominated both the front and back pages of newspapers in Argentina as a shocked nation dissected the news that Lionel Messi was leaving Barcelona. Following Diego Maradona’s death last year, Messi is the best-known face in Argentine sport and a category apart for the country’s media. Most news sites have sections dedicated to domestic leagues, the national team, rugby and other sports. Broadcaster TyC Sports had 14 Messi-related stories on their home page; the normally staid La Nacion and sports newspaper Ole had seven each. La Nacion asked: ‘What if Messi stays at Barcelona?’($1 = 0.8451 euros)(Reporting by Andrew Downie; Editing by Christian Radnedge)
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August 05, 2021 22:41 UTC