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Town Meeting will consider whether to support renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous People's Day, a trend gathering momentum and prompting debate nationwide. The Select Board considered the proposal at its Sept. 30 meeting, held virtually due to coronavirus restrictions on municipal gatherings. The board reviewed articles on the draft warrant for spe...

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Even with concerns about coronavirus keeping attendance lower than in previous years, a few dozen parishioners still came to Attleboro’s LaSalette Shrine on Saturday during the third annual Italian Cultural Festival, which also paid homage to Saint Padre Pio. The well-known Italian friar and priest who showed signs of stigmata lived from 1887 to 19...

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The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, I write to announce three encouraging and related steps in our ongoing efforts to make MIT more welcoming and inclusive. First, this summer, I asked Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier and Vice President for Huma...

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Salem residents will have a pair of holidays to recognize on the second Monday in October after a resolution to name the day Indigenous Peoples' Day in the city narrowly passed the Salem City Council Thursday night. While all City Councilors who spoke were in favor of adding to Indigenous Peoples' Day to the Salem calendar at some point in the year...

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A contradiction: it is misguided and unfair to judge historical figures under contemporary standards; yet historical judgement is virtually all that modernity offers us to measure human action. Christopher Columbus and his statue in front of Worcester’s Union Station epitomize the dilemma Columbus’ long shadow sheds on the exploration of the Americ...

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As the air begins to chill, and the days grow shorter and shorter, it’s the perfect time of year to snuggle up with a good book— and if you love to read about your Italian American heritage and culture, Nicola Orichuia of Boston’s I AM Books is the man to help you pick the perfect page-turner! I AM Books is Boston’s first—and only—bookstore created...

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Making your way up the driveway to the garage door of Tony Liotta’s house on North Quincy on a chilly September afternoon, you can already smell his latest labor of love. Like any good Italian, within minutes of stepping into his kitchen, whether an old friend or a stranger, he’s served you homemade olive oil and bread, and his dish of the day, hot...

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Most of us don’t think of buildings beyond their mere function. Whether they’re made of steel, stone, concrete or glass, they provide us with places to live, learn, work, heal and have fun, and that’s about it, right? But have you ever considered how buildings can flow with us, taking us from stress to rest while getting us from point A to point B?...

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One step forward, two steps back. That's how many advocating for the replacement of Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day viewed the Melrose School Committee's recent decision to observe both this October. Instead of following the growing number of communities that have eradicated Columbus Day, the committee took the unusual step of co-branding...

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Italian born-and-raised restaurateur Sante Calandri was not about to let a pandemic stop him from opening his new restaurant, Ports of Italy, in Rockport last week. With a sister property in Boothbay Harbor, he’d always had his eye on the Midcoast and when the Helm restaurant came up for sale, he jumped on the opportunity. For the last year, he set...

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