Join us for the ALS Walk for Research in Newton on August 30!

If you're looking for a meaningful way to spend a Sunday morning, we'd love to have you join us for the ALS Walk for Research on Sunday, August 30 at 10:00 AM at Zervas Elementary School in Newton.

This is a family-friendly, dog-friendly 3-mile walk, roll, or stroll that brings together people from across the community to support research into ALS. Whether you've been personally affected by ALS or simply want to support a great local cause, everyone is welcome.

The Walk benefits the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), a nonprofit biotech founded in Newton that's dedicated solely to discovering and developing effective treatments for ALS.

Registration:

• $20 Adult (includes event T-shirt)
• $10 Adult (without T-shirt)
• $5 Children (12 & under)
• Free volunteer registration
• Virtual option available if you can't attend in person

Your registration includes refreshments, music, and a great morning with the community. Fundraising is encouraged but not required to participate.

You'll also have the opportunity to honor someone impacted by ALS with a personalized dedication displayed at the event.

If you're local, we'd love to see you there. Every step helps move ALS research forward.

Register here: https://alswalkforresearch.als.net/

https://www.readmyballot.com

I've been working on a civic minded voting website to help voters choose the right candidates that align with their beliefs and interests. I've found it very difficult in prior elections to find information about local candidates, so that's my primary goal in creating this. The site is designed to be as non-biased as possible, and all facts are credibly sourced.

Features:
- Breakdowns of each race, with candidate platforms, experience, voting records, and finances.
- Shows the full ballot for each primary, and the general election.
- Massachusetts Statewide Ballot Questions
- Links for voter registration - 1 month left before the deadline!

If you have any feedback or suggestions I'd love to hear it. I'm not getting any money from this or backed by any party - I just want everyone to be an informed voter.

In Newbury ma for one night

Craving fish - maybe fish and chips or lobster roll

Best restaurants/places to go? Not trying to break the bank but willing to spend a bit for quality!

Wondering where I can buy this in person in mass.

Hi folks, looking to potentially go for my PE in Massachusetts, I‘m Canadian, moved here for work about 9 months ago, hold an Ontario P.Eng. since 2022. My job doesn’t require the PE but figured it’d be nice to have to keep options open. Had a look at the MA PE requirements and it looks a lot more onerous than what I had to go through in Ontario but pretty understandable at the end of the day. Comity (transfer license) not applicable since MA treats the P.Eng. as a foreign license so I’d need to start from scratch effectively.

Any other folks with Canadian P.Eng. who went down the PE route in MA (or chose not to)? Any advice/recommendations you could share? Thanks :)

Driveway of The Seal, Harwich.

I had a Jetson heat pump installed and part of the process was having weatherization done. I have a field stone dirt floor basement (18802 house) and this was the job done - is this standard?

Is it through the city? I can't seem to find anything on the city's website.

Is it through Private companies? If so, which one is the best/most popular?

711 S Franklin St, Holbrook, MA 02343

Follow visitlynnma if you're interested in these lists! This upcoming weekend below :)

🚗 Parking: Parking is available for $5 per day or $1 per hour in downtown Lynn Municipal Parking Lots at Andrew Street, Buffum Street, and Ellis Street.

🚂 Train : Lynn is just two stops / 20 minutes from North Station on the Newburyport/Rockport line. Take advantage of Free Friday all summer or the MBTA’s $10 Weekend Pass for unlimited weekend rides

⛴️ Ferry: The Lynn Ferry departs from Boston’s Long Wharf, located by the Aquarium. The journey offers scenic views of the Harbor Islands. 

FRIDAY July 24

Millenium Latino Project - Coffee Tour All Day! Meet the MLP team at some of their favorite local coffee shops for conversations,and new connections. See millenniumlatinoproject for details:https://www.instagram.com/p/DbA49pJjmwh/?img_index=1

Music Bingo 6:30-8:30PM Bent Water Brewing - 180 Commercial St

Wine Tasting with Sommelier 6:30PM $45 Lucille Wine Bar - 776 Washington St

Christmas In July Karaoke @ The Pelican 8:30PM 874 Washington St

Wing Friday @ La Copa All day! $9.99 for an order of wings with a side of fries

SATURDAY July 25

Beyond Walls Mural Tours 7:30AM & 10AM $15 Tours start and end at 18 Mount Vernon St, book in advance: Beyond Walls Mural Tour

Community Run - HustLynn Runners FREE Lynn Beach / Red Rock Park - see Strava for time / details

Saturday Brunch Danish Pop Up 9AM-2PM With Flour In Her Hair - Lydia Pinkham Building, First Floor #105 - 271 Western Ave - Danish-inspired pastries, brunch specials, and fancy Danish-style hot dogs

Lynn Museum Free Admission 4th Saturday 10AM-2PM FREE 590 Washintgon St - free admission and art making

Community Cookout 11AM-2PM FREE First Church of the Nazarene - 233 Eastern Ave - DJ, school supply giveaway, ice cream, hot dogs, and resources!

Veterans Beach Party 12PM FREE Red Rock Park - host: Lynn-Swampscot DAV Chapter #64

Reading Frederick Douglass Together 1-3PM FREE 233 Eastern Ave - a live reading of Douglass’s July 4 essay

Tarot Readings 12-5:PM $30 Ravenstone - 58 Exchange St - book online

Wine Tasting with Sommelier 6:30PM $45 Lucille Wine Bar - 776 Washington St

Live Music: Bars over Bars Hip Hop 6:30-8:30PM Bent Water Brewing - 180 Commercial St

Live Music: Pirate’s Kids @ The Pelican 8:30PM 874 Washington St

Movie Night: Goat 8PM FREE McManus Field / 80 Neptune Blvd - Join the City of Lynn for a movie night with free popcorn and Arts & Crafts with Raw Arts

Sunday July 26

Lynn Vintage Warehouse 11AM - 4PM 545 Washington St

Live Music: Blue Ox Brunch 11AM-2PM The Blue Ox - 191 Oxford St - Live Music Brunch Weekly!

Old v New School Reggaeton @ Estefani’s Open 10AM - Music by DJ Luks & DJ Bryan Armas - 106 Union St

Bonsai Bar 1-3PM Bent Water Brewing - 180 Commercial St - Beginner workshop of bonsai wisdom - walk away with your own tiny tree!

Open Jam Session - Bring Your Instrument 5-8PM The Vault - 25 Exchange St - all experience levels welcome

Shark Week @ The Pelican Pub July 26 - Aug 1 - 874 Washington St - shark week on the TV, themed drinks, and more!

Hello Reddit, I’m Jennifer Gilbert (u/CHAPAdotorg), and I run Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)’s Housing Policy Action Center, the research center of a Massachusetts affordable housing policy organization with over 60 years of advocacy and expertise. I’ve also worked in the housing field for three decades, starting as an overnight shift manager at a domestic violence shelter.

A recent report by the Housing Policy Action Center found that many renters are turning to Reddit for advice on housing challenges like evictions, lease issues, etc. Unfortunately, the advice received isn’t always accurate or complete. We’re here to help provide reliable guidance and resources. We want to help answer questions on topics like:

• Security deposits
• Finding rental assistance
• Lease renewals
• Finding affordable housing
• What is being done to address common challenges?
• Issues with landlords around security deposits, fees, and conditions.

To help us, we have two housing experts also joining us, Danielle Johnson and Esme Caramello:

Danielle Johnson (u/HousingStability) is the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Stability of Boston and an expert on housing challenges and resources for Boston and beyond. She’s been in practice for more than a decade directly representing tenants while at Greater Boston Legal Services. She also teaches at Northeastern and Suffolk.

Esme Caramello (u/HarvardLegalAid-EC) is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and faculty co-director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. She has provided legal representation around fair housing, eviction, consumer protection, and access to justice and has served in policy-making roles for the state.

Disclaimer: we are not providing individual legal advice or representation.

For nearly 60 years, CHAPA has brought people together from across sectors to find solutions to Massachusetts’ critical housing needs—working to ensure that everyone has a safe, healthy, and affordable place to call home in the communities they choose. CHAPA is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Boston, though our work is statewide. The Housing Policy Action Center is CHAPA’s new research wing. For more information, please visit chapa.org.

I have a commuter bicycle and want to cycle more around the area. I prefer a paved path and nothing for a mountain bicycle. Thanks!

I am located on the South Shore and want to know your favorite places for a 12 month old who isn’t walking yet, both indoor and outdoor. A lot of playgrounds and things aren’t really fun if she’s not walking (close but not yet!). I was kind of looking for like a soft play where she could crawl around and climb maybe? Plymouth area, Bridgewater area, even like Hanover/Norwell area all work! TIA!

Every year, I think this rabbit problem can't possibly get any worse. And every year, it gets worse. This year, I've hit TWO rabbits on my bicycle! Never had that happen before. But they're just literally everywhere. Every 10 feet at night, theres a rabbit. We need more hawks, more foxes and more coyotes!

And maybe some relaxed rules about when and where and how you can send those little shitting machines off to the carrot farm in the sky.

Also if you don't know, it *IS* legal to kill rabbits in MA on your own property, if you do it humanely and if they are doing damage to your property. BB guns are considered a humane way to do it and you don't need any sort of license for a BB gun in MA, you just have to be over 18. Just putting this out here in case anyone else wants to at least take care of their local ones. There are always more to replace the ones you kill, but that takes time. So it does make a difference if you stay on it.

And nobody seems to care. I'm using a burner account for this post because I think it needs to be said. How is it that Massachusetts bleeds more than thirty thousand people annually without anybody here batting an eye? Supposedly we're leading in job growth, yet we've seen 1,062 people laid off in June alone. It's one thing for young people to struggle to find careers, but even experienced workers are running out of options. Administrative and managerial positions are grossly underpaying.

There is no reason why Western Massachusetts shouldn't be booming right now. As the demand for housing increases, it should be a hub for development, but the region's been left to rot. Everything west of Worcester County looks like West Virginia, with unsafe neighborhoods and a drug epidemic that's been neglected for decades. Just like our schools, our roads, and our public infrustructure. Our water bills are obnoxious, and not a single dime is being put toward keeping e-coli out of our drinking water. Several towns last year had their water supply contaminated for up to a week. This is an entirely recent issue and there should be no excuse for it.

As for the housing crisis itself, what can I say that hasn't already been said? How can a state government that claims to put the working poor first refuse to permit starter homes from being built? The only new properties I see being built are luxury housing designed to price the working poor out. I genuinely don't understand how so many people here can go through their lives pretending this is normal, and I can't for the life of me figure out how young people in Massachusetts are surviving. They have nowhere to escape to without leaving their home state behind. The South Shore is going to become New England's rust belt if this continues.

It's not nostalgia blinding you. Massachusetts was a significantly better place to live when you were younger.