Tag: community
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Food Pantry sees one of its busiest days ever
Volunteers at the Lexington Food Pantry served more than 600 people and 211 families Saturday, the third time the pantry served more than 200 families in the organization’s 35-year history. The surge followed a temporary pause in the federal food…
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‘Echoes of Home’ inspired Brandeis junior’s Waltham Family School mural
Brandeis University junior Alanis Gonzalez comes from a family of creatives. Not only is Gonzalez’s mother an artist, but her grandmother is as well. In Gonzalez’s youth, her grandmother collected discarded items from the streets of the Dominican Republic —…
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At Mirachi shoppers connect to a bigger world
The moment you step through the glass doors of Mirachi Life, you notice sunlight spilling through wide windows and glinting off white tile floors and shelves. Rows of tidy products stretch deep into the space, with colorful chip bags, gleaming…
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Lexington’s third annual Porchfest returns Sept. 27
Lexington’s streets, or rather, porches and patios, will be occupied by bands and musicians this weekend during the town’s third annual Porchfest, a festival that debuted in Ithaca, New York in 2007, and has been spreading across the U.S. and…