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  • Name of new Boston women's soccer team expected to be announced Tuesday
    by Munashe Kwangwari on October 15, 2024 at 6:12 am

    It’s a historic day in Boston, as the city’s new National Women’s Soccer League franchise is expected to announce its new name sometime Tuesday morning. Sporting colors of green and black, the team will be the 15th National Women’s Soccer League franchise. The announcement will come after nearly a year of planning by the Boston Unity Soccer Partners, an all-female core ownership group. The team will officially join the league in 2026 — playing home games at White Stadium in Boston — but not without controversy. People who live in the area have fought against the renovation of the stadium for the team because they feel a soccer team would lead to more traffic and unwanted noise. In fact, the issue even made it to court back in March, but a Suffolk Superior Court Judge denied the request to stop the proposed and planned renovation. That brings us to today, a day when fans will have an opportunity to celebrate the new team at a special fan celebration rally at Dick’s House of Sport at the Prudential Center in Boston. The event starts at 6:30 p.m., and Mayor Michelle Wu is scheduled to speak around 7:30. More Massachusetts news The Breakdown 11 hours ago Breaking down Maye's ‘aggressive' playmaking on first TD pass Education 14 hours ago 63% of Mass. schools are still segregated, report finds, despite law against it

  • Mass. restaurant apologizes after serving reenactors dressed as Nazi soldiers
    on October 15, 2024 at 12:13 am

    A restaurant in Hudson, Massachusetts, is apologizing after a group of World War II reenactors, some dressed as Nazi soldiers, dined there this weekend. The group ate at Kith and Kin Saturday night, the restaurant said on Facebook. The American Heritage Museum in Hudson put on the reenactment Saturday and Sunday. Kith and Kin said the eight people at the table were in costumes, with two wearing SS uniforms. “In hindsight, they should have been asked to change before being seated,” the restaurant said. “Even though we knew they were living historians, at a time when acts of anti-Semitic violence continue to rise, we should have realized other diners might not be aware of the local WWII re-enactment.” “We would never intentionally do anything to offend or hurt anyone in the community,” the restaurant’s statement continued. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

  • Patrick Clancy speaks about 3 slain kids, wife in new interview
    by Asher Klein, Alysha Palumbo and Kaitlin McKinley Becker on October 14, 2024 at 8:10 pm

    The father whose wife killed their three young children in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home has reflected on the tragedy — and her still-pending criminal trial — in an interview in The New Yorker that mark his most extensive public comments on what happened to date. Patrick Clancy told the article’s author he wanted the interview, which was published Monday, to push back against “lies and misinformation” that have swirled amid the intense interest around Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. She’s pleaded not guilty to murder charges brought by the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office over the Jan. 24 deaths of their children, 5-year-old Cora Clancy, 3-year-old Dawson Clancy, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. “I wasn’t married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick,” Clancy said in the interview. In the article, Patrick Clancy describes how balancing her home and work life as a new mother “drove her anxiety,” but that he encouraged her to continue working so she’d have her own life. He also recalled his wife’s mental health struggles. Patrick disputed a part of prosecutors’ indictment that said psychiatrists at a Providence, Rhode Island, hospital found “no symptoms” that his wife had postpartum depression misleading because the doctors didn’t want to intervene in her ongoing treatment, and said that, when she was later admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, she texted him, “I don’t belong here” — other people had more classic symptoms of a mental break. She started to do better, and told him the morning the children died that she felt good and had slept pretty well, Clancy recalled. He touched on the agonizing moments he discovered Lindsay wounded outside their home and then their children, dead and dying, inside. The article also discusses their first contact after the killings, a brief phone call he took while walking on Massachusetts’ shoreline in which, “She did not sound like herself,” before reaching out to her six months later at the suggestion of her father, where she told him that every day has been the worse of her life. They’ve spoken more regularly since, he said. Clancy also shared how he and his wife have been doing lately, though he didn’t comment on their marital status. Both are self-conscious of their current emotional status, he said, Lindsay for new medication that makes it hard for her to cry, and Patrick for the “worry that people will see me socializing, and be, like, ‘‘’Shouldn’t he be sad, because his whole family was just killed?'” Patrick Clancy has only made a few public statements prior to the interview. His first, days after the killing, addressed what happened and asked people “find it deep within” themselves to forgive her, as he had done. “The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone – me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are loving,” he wrote. “All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.” This April, Clancy ran the Boston Marathon in honor of his kids and to raise money for the hospital where his youngest, Callan, was treated in his last days. He ended up raising over $73,000, above his goal. More on the Clancy case Duxbury Jan 28, 2023 Mass. Dad Releases Statement, Asks People to Forgive Wife Accused of Killing Their Kids Duxbury Jan 27, 2023 3rd Child Dies Days After Duxbury Killings, Prosecutors Say

  • 63% of Mass. schools are still segregated, report finds, despite law against it
    by Glenn Jones on October 14, 2024 at 4:39 pm

    An educator with experience advising the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) believes it’s time to sue the state agency if it doesn’t do more to reduce racial imbalances in public schools. “They still have an opportunity before someone files a lawsuit,” said Dr. Raul Fernandez, the former chair of DESE’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council (RAIC). “My great hope was that we would have leaders that would actually step up and meet this moment, and it just hasn’t happened. So, it seems we’re on the path that many other communities have found themselves – whether it be cities or states – on the path toward some kind of court involvement.” In June, Dr. Fernandez and his colleagues on the advisory council released a report called “Racial Segregation in Massachusetts Schools.” It reveals that 63% of the Commonwealth’s public schools meet the council’s definition of segregated. That means more than 500,000 students are educated in school environments considered racially imbalanced and the RAIC says the law requires education leaders to do something about it – even if they didn’t create the imbalance. Segregated school = at least 71% white or nonwhite “I would love to see ed leaders, including the governor’s education leader, step up and say: ‘this is a real problem. We see the impacts of it. We see who’s most hurt by it,’” Fernandez said. About 103,000 Black and Latino students attend schools defined as “intensely segregated nonwhite”. These students, according to the report, receive a stunningly poor education compared to their white counterparts. Intensely segregated school = at least 90% white or nonwhite Intensely segregated white schools score a 66.3 out of 99 in performance assessments, while segregated nonwhite schools score 48 points lower, according to the report. With this in mind, the RAIC included an expansion of the METCO program as one of its 18 recommendations to motivate state education leaders to address racial imbalances in schools. The METCO program buses 3,200 students from overwhelming nonwhite Boston neighborhoods to overwhelming white school districts in the surrounding suburbs. If the Legislature is willing to partner and leverage revenue from the Millionaire’s Tax, METCO’s CEO says she can quickly scale up program enrollment 25% — to 4,000 students. The estimated cost is $6.4 million per year. “We could definitely reach more students every year,” said METCO’s CEO Milly Arbaje-Thomas. “We only place one-third of our applicants. There’s always two-thirds of the applicants that do not get referred or placed because our program is based on seat availability.” Millionaire’s Tax Revenue = $2.2 billion (year one)Must be used to fund education or transportation The Massachusetts law that governs racial balance in schools was enacted in 1965, around the same time METCO was created. Some of the law’s decades-old language about race was tossed aside by the RAIC – deemed out-of-date. One of the council’s top recommendations is to update the law. The Acting Commissioner of Education and the Healey Administration’s Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler declined NBC10’s interview requests. However, Tutwiler has previously stated his commitment to “high quality education in inclusive learning environments.” States with similar racial imbalance laws in education:Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington

  • Here's where Spirit Halloween is opening its Christmas store in Mass.
    by Jessie Castellano on October 14, 2024 at 2:27 pm

    Spooky season isn’t over yet, but a popular seasonal retailer is already in the Christmas spirit. And if you’re in the spirit to visit Spirit Halloween’s new Christmas-themed store, one of the 10 storefronts soon opening in the Northeast will be in Massachusetts. That location, in North Dartmouth’s Faunce Corner Shopping Center, used to be home to Christmas Tree Shops, which filed for bankruptcy in May of 2023. In fact, both of the Spirit Christmas stores in New England will be in former Christmas Tree Shops location — the other is in Waterford, Connecticut, at the Crystal Mall. The stores will offer holiday apparel, gifts and decorations, according to their website, in addition to photo opportunities with Santa. More holiday news Holidays Oct 13 Eggnog before Thanksgiving? Shoppers eager for a new season scramble retail calendars Halloween Oct 8 ‘Spirit Halloween' stores to stick around for Christmas, include Santa meet-and-greets Holidays Sep 27 Charlie Brown holiday specials to air on Apple TV+. Here's how to watch them for free

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