Baker administration awards 108 Massachusetts businesses $5 million in COVID-19 small business grants
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
Gov. Charlie Baker talks to Panela restaurant owners Viviana Acevedo and her brother Juan Acevedo during a visit in Lowell to talk about grants that are helping small businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Viviana Acevedo is also chef of the restaurant which has all types of Colombian cuisine.POOL PHOTO/Lowell Sun/Julia Mala
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced another 108 businesses would receive a collective $5 million in small business grants under a COVID-19 grant program.
“These relief grants were designed to help the hardest hit businesses, specifically targeted to certain groups and sectors that were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and in many cases couldn’t access some of the federally available business support programs,” Baker said from his podium at the Panela Restaurant in
David Lewis May 5, 2021Updated: May 9, 2021, 1:18 am
The Smith Rafael Film Center will be hosting this year’s in-person, indoors DocLands Documentary Film Festival. Photo: Smith Rafael Film Center
For 14 months, Bay Area film festivals have made do during the COVID-19 pandemic with streaming, drive-in showings and virtual Q&As with filmmakers and stars.
To be sure, outdoor screenings offer their own charms and festival streaming is here to stay. But some still clamor for the intimacy, community and power that only a theatrical festival experience can provide.
Well, the wait appears to be over. On Friday, May 7, the DocLands Documentary Film Festival in San Rafael is set to become the first Bay Area festival to take the leap, scheduling two-a-day indoor screenings until it wraps up May 16. DocLands will also feature a few in-person Q&As after select screenings.
Longsjo Middle School s Becky Colo named 2021 Massachusetts STEM Teacher of the Year May 05, 2021 at 11:59 AM Copied!
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Longsjo Middle School s (Fitchburg, Mass.) Becky Colo has been named the Patriots Hall of Fame presented by Raytheon Technologies Massachusetts STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Teacher of the Year. Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft announced Colo as the STEM Teacher of the Year today, and her school will receive $5,000 to be used for STEM education. Colo will also serve for one year on the governor s STEM Council. Congratulations to Becky Colo, Kraft said in his announcement. She is doing outstanding work to inspire our next generation of STEM professionals. Congratulations to all the nominees and the other four finalists.
Have they learnt their lesson? Woke San Francisco board FINALLY hires consultant to re-open classrooms after rejecting the idea for entire year
In June last year, the San Francisco school board rejected a plan to hire a reopening consultant to help get kids safely back in class
M
embers then described a firm recommended by Superintendent Vince Matthews as a crime syndicate because it had worked with charter schools
After overseeing one of the slowest school reopenings in the country, the board has now reversed its decision and agreed to hire outside help
The board was preoccupied with trying to rename so-called racist schools, as parents and children juggled virtual lessons and working from home
S.F. school board sued over controversial change to Lowell High School admissions policy
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Lowell High School is seen in San Francisco, Calif. on Monday, Feb 1, 2021.Marlena Sloss / Special to The Chronicle
Opponents of the move to end merit-based admissions at the academically elite Lowell High School are suing the San Francisco school board, claiming it violated the state’s open meetings law when it voted in February to accept any student who wins a lottery to attend.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, argues the board failed to properly list the resolution in the agenda, provide equal time for both sides during public comment and give the public adequate time to review the proposal before the vote. The district and Superintendent Vince Matthews are also named in the suit.