Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #52 and #53.
ARTS
Art collectors flock to Ipswich bookshop for mini-print vending machine
The Local News (Ipswich)
Twenty-year-old hipster trend makes it to the outer burbs at last.
EDUCATION
New school, old question: Where should LHS students park? And should they be driving to school in the first place?
The Lexington Observer
Lexington has chosen a weird way of not dealing with an obvious transportation crisis.
Staff dissent as education collaborative considers hiring NPS superintendent
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Both unionized and ununionized staffers at the Collaborative for Education Services in Northampton are concerned about the nonprofit’s plans to hire Portia Bonner, the outgoing Northampton superintendent, as its new executive director because of her problematic record on labor relations.
City’s push for new Madison Park challenges longstanding community agreements
The Flipside (Boston)
Neighborhood advocates are furious with city plans to build a new high school directly across from Boston Police Department headquarters in violation of community development policies negotiated over decades. The school would take up three-quarters of a parcel “which is slated for the development of affordable housing, lab space and a museum.”
ENVIRONMENT
Park and Rec Marks Its Territory — But Will It Block Haskell Solar Project?
Sudbury Weekly
Petulant Sudbury P&R commissioners look ready to put their egos ahead of clean energy.
FOREIGN POLICY
Opinion: Letter from Venezuela
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
An interesting perspective that Americans could stand to hear more often.
IMMIGRATION
Is the city doing enough to protect immigrants from ICE?
The Flipside (Boston)
Yes and no, activists say.
PLANNING
Historic Lord Square building likely to be demolished, replaced by parking lot
The Local News (Ipswich)
Ipswich is inadvertently finding a way to bring a classic Joni Mitchell song to life.
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