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The U.S. Census Bureau is using new high-tech tools to help get an accurate population count next year as its faces challenges tallying people of color who live in remote places and can be wary of the federal government. The agency is using aerial images of rural communities and hard-to-reach areas to verify addresses and determine where to send workers. Coach Mar 10, 2019
A youth tennis instructor has been arraigned on child pornography charges, Rhode Island State Police say. Thomas E. Gallagher, 75, of Newport, was arrested Friday and charged with possession of child pornography after an investigation by the Rhode Island Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Gallagher was arraigned at Second Division District Court and released on $50,000 personal recognizance with.
WORCESTER It was during the fall of Saigon the last day of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975 Anh Vu Sawyer and her family were picked up by a military helicopter from the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy there.
Sawyer, her parents and three siblings were among 7,000 people evacuated from the roof of the embassy during Operation Frequent Wind, and were one of the only few fortunate Vietnamese refugees able to leave the war-torn country with their family intact as communist forces from the north descended on and eventually overtook the city.
“The whole thing is a miracle because when I left Vietnam, we were in front of a large crowd of people, and I just prayed and asked God not to forget me,” said Sawyer, executive director of the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts (SEACMA) in Worcester. “I just thought if I could make it to the gate, we would be able to climb the gate.”
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Bolstered by grassroots organizing, human service nonprofits and other concerned citizens, city leadership and stakeholders are engaging residents in conversations about an array of deep-seeded inequities, many centered around and rooted in all of the ways systemic racism is woven into the fabric of everyday life in Central Massachusetts.
In the past year, these conversations have centered around issues like police brutality against the city’s Black and Hispanic communities, as well as racial inequities in the city’s schools and on the school committee. These are community-oriented issues: Children typically attend schools closest to them based on district mapping, and neighborhoods of color around the U.S. are demonstrably and statistically over-policed.
RUTLAND At first it seemed like a mystery.
It was May 8 when Amy Benoit s granddaughter, waking after a sleepover, noticed something was amiss: the door to her grandmother s Little Free Library in the front yard was ajar. She said, Mem, the door to the library is open! Benoit recalled, and as they went out to check, what they saw left her granddaughter incredulous. And, there s scribbling on it, she exclaimed.
Sometime during the night vandals had struck. They wrote on the hand-made library and on the glass in the little front door and even on the books that were neatly displayed and free for the taking by passersby hungry for anything from a pager-turner to a picture book.
The overall percentage of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts schools remains well below 1% as education officials on Thursday reported new infections of the virus among 407 total students and staff members. With roughly 735,000 students and 140,000 staffers currently in public school buildings, the percent of coronavirus cases in schools stands at 0.05% among students and 0.02% among staffers, .