#Massachusetts: Find a local #FoodBank

Need food? A local food bank can help you put food on your table so you don't go hungry.

Notice: President #Trump is currently choosing not to issue November #SNAP benefits that help you and many families put food on the table.

You also may have your benefits cut starting in November because of changes Congressional Republicans and President Trump enacted in the '#OneBigBeautifulBill.' Learn more and check back for updates at mass.gov/

Eastern Massachusetts - #GreaterBoston Food Bank
https://www.gbfb.org/need-food/

Central Massachusetts - #WorcesterCounty Food Bank
https://foodbank.org/find-food/

Western Massachusetts - The Food Bank of #WesternMassachusetts
https://www.foodbankwma.org/

Northeastern Massachusetts - #MerrimackValley Food Bank
https://mvfb.org/member-agencies/

Source:
https://www.mass.gov/how-to/find-a-local-food-bank

#MassachusettsFoodPantries #FoodInsecurity #SNAP #SNAPCuts #FoodPantries #FoodPantry #BigUglyBill #TrumpSucks

This could go BOOM. The CEO of Market Basket has been fired by the company board, a.k.a. his sisters. This also happened 11 years ago.

(Market Basket is a regional supermarket chain that inspires unusual devotion in eastern #Massachusetts and #NewHampshire.)

Will the workers and customers flex their muscle again? The first "Battle of Market Basket" took place in 2014 ...
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#MarketBasket #labor #organizedlabor #boycott #boston #merrimackvalley

How Massachusetts inspired some of #HPLovecraft's scary stories

Arun Rath, Jacklyn Martin
10/22/24

"HPL, considered by many the father of modern #horror fiction, is also very much a local legend. While the Rhode Island native famously said, 'I am Providence,' Massachusetts also played a big part in his life and work. Of course, our state is home to the fictional #MiskatonicRiver and the town of #Arkham, which was appropriated by DC Comics as home of the asylum that housed the Joker, reaching a whole new level in popular culture. And that is really only scratching the surface of the surface.

"Historian, writer & horror enthusiast #DavidGoudsward joined GBH’s All Things Considered — just in time for #SpookySeason — to take a deep dive in his book, 'H.P. Lovecraft in the #MerrimackValley.' What follows is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation."

Listen / read transcript:
https://www.wgbh.org/culture/books/2024-10-22/how-massachusetts-inspired-some-of-h-p-lovecrafts-scary-stories?fbclid=IwY2xjawGQg41leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdLuxTTo8mJBYr0FuAyLav_qvLelVIBLvWZ6WNr1JtGKfVSNK8zjAs4OMQ_aem_MmMHKMzdsg4usxuWlCNIMA

#HorrorHistory #Lovecraftian #SpookyMassachusetts #Lovecraft #Innsmouth

Massachusetts is still making history.

(But why didn't she stop at ninety-nine?)

#massachusetts #boston #merrimackvalley #Lowell #localheroes

I'm wondering when people from my hometown are going to join #Mastodon and the #Fediverse? I'd love to see people from #Billerica on here! #Lowell would be okay, too!

#MerrimackValley