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Flea market season is starting. Here are 8 New England markets deal lovers should go to.
There is something unique about attending summer flea markets, even for hardened bargained hunters. Drifting from tables to tents in the sun, either wondering if you should make that impulse purchase or how anyone could charge money this. Massachusetts has a variety of places to for bargain hunting, appraisals and haggling, including Brimfield...
Deaf woman from Massachusetts thriving as equestrian jumper
BOSTON – A Massachusetts woman is one of the top equestrians in the world, despite losing her hearing as a baby.At the young age of 24, Raleigh Hiler has already lived an inspirational life. Meningitis took Hiler's hearing when she was 8 months old.Meningitis led to loss of hearingShe received cochlear implants at Boston Children's Hospital."I don't remember the meningitis. I remember the speech therapy and getting my implants and everything like that," Hiler said. In the process, Hiler developed a love for horses."I don't know if being deaf kind of attracted me to the horses but it was definitely...
Credit card skimmers found at nine Roche Bros. locations
Skimmers were found at checkouts in Wellesley, Watertown, Bridgewater, Westwood, Natick, Downtown Crossing, Sudbury, Needham, and West Roxbury. The Roche Bros. grocery store chain was recently the target of another wave of credit card skimmers, the Mansfield-based chain announced last week. Skimmers were found at nearly half of all Roche Bros. locations.
Jack Lueders-Booth’s Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison
Jack Lueders-Booth appears on my screen wearing a red jumper and crinkly brown tweed jacket, surrounded by books and neat piles of printed materials in his charming Boston home office. “I’m not quite in order,” the 88-year-old American photographer and former Harvard professor says. “I’m just waking up. As a matter of fact, I was up all night working on a paper.” He smiles when I say I haven’t slept well either; “We can be not very lucid together.”
‘Lucky for Life’: 3 $25k a year for life lotto prizes won in New England; 2 in Mass.
Three winning “Lucky for Life” lottery tickets were sold in New England on Sunday — and two were sold at the same store in Massachusetts. Each of the winning tickets is worth $25,000 a year for life, and all three matched the first five numbers from the Sunday drawing. The winning numbers were 1, 6, 10, 16, 27 and Lucky Ball: 8.
Mass. State Lottery winners: Three $100,000 ‘Mass Cash’ prizes won Friday
A few lottery players had luck playing “Mass Cash” on Friday, each scoring $100,000 from the game. The three people who each won $100,000 playing “Mass Cash” bought their winning tickets from Geissler’s Supermarket in Agawam, Chelmsford Mart in Chelmsford and Route 97 House Of Pizza in Methuen, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery’s website.
Free Dunkin’ coffee offered to all nurses on National Nurses Day 2024
BOSTON - Dunkin’ is celebrating nurses on Monday by offering a free cup of caffeine. The coffee and doughnut chain is offering a free medium hot or iced coffee on May 6 to celebrate National Nurses Day 2024 at participating locations. No purchase is necessary. The offer is limited...
Award wining musical "A Strange Loop" tackles serious issues on Boston stage
BOSTON - "A Strange Loop," the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is making its Boston debut. The musical was written by a Black, queer man who worked in a Broadway theater and is about just that: a Black, queer man, working in a Broadway theater, who is writing a show about a Black, queer man, working in a Broadway theater.A dream come trueDorchester native Kai Clifton, who stars as Usher, says he's never heard songs like these before."It's so raw, and it's so real, and the lyrics are so in your face and unapologetic," Clifton said.Clifton tells us that playing the...
Boston Bonanza – a charity fishing tournament to benefit Elevate Youth
Calling all Fishermen! Join Boston Bonanza for a charity fishing tournament from May 24th to June 14th featuring prizes for the Best in Class Fish and Most Species Caught. The registration fee is $65 and you will receive an exclusive Captain’s Bag that includes the official measuring tape, a long sleeve fishing shirt, stickers, as well as gear from brands like Costa, Cheeky, Badfish and Postfly. The Captain’s Bag can be picked up at The Kick-Off Party on May 22nd at The Dorchester Yacht Club!
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