The Shah Family Foundation started Local Lunchbox in Chelsea, Massachusetts, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to make sure children would have healthy.
Since 2004, an average of more than 100 local newspapers have shuttered in the US per year. This has left thousands of communities without any news organization to monitor the actions of local and state government. In the Greater Boston area, many cities and towns have lost local newspapers, and recently, Gannett, which owns the largest number of local papers, announced that