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On Saturday, May 15, Bedford voters will be asked to change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
A yes vote will add Bedford to a growing list of cities and towns in Massachusetts making the switch. This is really a chance to honor the tradition of the people and start to repair the damage done, said Anne Caron.
Caron and Heather Leavell are the local driving forces behind the proposed change. Leavell, a recent transplant from Melrose, had been working on the change in that town for several years. Successful, she wanted to effect a similar change in her adopted community.
One Massachusetts town is putting its Native American logo to a vote. Residents say the debate is tearing the town apart.
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 11, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Nicole Calabrese, who chairs a ballot committee that supports eliminating Native American imagery from Wakefield s school logo, near a Wakefield Memorial High School scoreboard that displays the logo.Suzanne Krieter/Globe staff
WAKEFIELD â The candidates argued over how to pay for a new school and the best ways to address the prolonged street closure on Broadway. As far as town council debates go, the virtual event here could have played out in hundreds of towns across Massachusetts.
BRAINTREE – The town was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic during 2020, with more than 2,000 residents infected and over 100 deaths. The pandemic closed everything from schools to South Shore Plaza, canceled events from summer recreation programs to the annual Braintree Day celebration, and generally upended lives throughout the community.
But amid the pandemic, there was one death that shocked the community: Laurie Melchionda s.
The health board member and longtime school nurse was shot to death by a man posing as a delivery driver at her Howie Road home June 17. A former neighbor, Robert Bonang, was arrested within minutes and charged with murder.