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Even as General Electric scaled back its grand ambitions for Boston, the company held true to its initial promises to give millions to the city’s public schools and the local health care scene.
There was one component of its $50 million local charitable program that had remained unfulfilled: workforce training. GE pledged when it moved here from Connecticut in 2016 that it would provide $10 million to train underserved populations outside the Boston metro area, including in Lynn and Fall River.
GE is now making good on that promise.
Enes Kanter is just trying to worship in peace, hoping to find a quiet corner in a Boston-area mosque for his weekly Friday prayer. He’s wearing a gray Celtics fleece, maybe just subtle enough for a seven-footer to blend in for a brief moment in mid-October. He’d hoped for a quick reprieve between morning practice and a slate of afternoon interviews about the situation in Turkey.
This time, as he leaves the mosque, a group of kids clamors to meet him. Among them is a young boy who asks Kanter where he’s from. The answer delights the boy, who exclaims, “Wow, I’m Turkish too!”
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter appeared at a press conference alongside Senators Edward J. Markey and Ron Wyden in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday as the lawmakers introduced legislation condemning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey ahead of his White House visit.
“You guys know my story because I play in the NBA. But there are thousands and thousands of stories way, way worse than mine,” Kanter told reporters Tuesday. “So that’s why I’m trying to use my platform to be a voice for all those innocent people who don’t have one.”
The phrase “freedom is not free” reverberated several times at Amesbury Middle School as more than 100 people gathered outside the Main Street school Monday morning for the city’s annual Veterans Day ceremony.
The phrase was spoken repeatedly by guest speaker and Iraq War veteran John Clifford of Newburyport. Clifford joined the Marine Corps in 2000 and fought for his country in Fallujah, Iraq. It was at Fallujah that he was wounded while riding in a Humvee and later awarded the Purple Heart.
A federal project to dredge Gloucester’s Annisquam River will be able to move forward after the state recently awarded a $2.4 million grant to support the work.
The US Army Corps Engineers earlier this year budgeted $5.7 million for the project. But bids came in significantly higher than that amount. The state grant will fill the gap, allowing the contract to be awarded, and the work to get underway this season according to Jim Destino, Gloucester’s chief administrative officer.
DANVERS — On Monday morning, Robert H. Roy, a disabled Vietnam combat veteran, told the large crowd gathered inside Thorpe Elementary School how this year marks the 100th anniversary of Veterans Day.
Roy, a native of Salem and a longtime Danvers resident, served with NMCB 58, the naval mobile construction battalion known as the “Seabees.” He was selected as this year’s guest speaker during the town’s annual Veterans Day ceremony hosted by the Danvers Veterans Council.
PEABODY — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, who served four tours in the Iraq War as an Marine Corps infantry officer, led off his fifth annual Veterans Town Hall in an attempt to bridge the gap between those who served and those who did not.
Moulton, who lives in Salem, said people come up to him every day asking him to do more for veterans.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a four-tour veteran of the Iraq War, has dropped out of the presidential race. But, while campaigning, he pledged to expunge the records of men and women dishonorably discharged for serving in the military as homosexuals.
Some of these gay and lesbian military officers and enlisted persons were "discovered," or hunted down, during the time of the soul-grating "Don’t ask, don’t tell" law, hatched by the moral-triangulating of the Clinton administration. Scores of thousands of other discharges occurred before DADT came into force.
The giant dredge that will return the Annisquam River to safe navigability is expected to arrive in Gloucester next week, and the project, which has had more twists and turns than the ancient river itself, physically will begin in earnest.
On Friday, officials came from near and far, and from the varying strata of government, to the Coast Guard’s Station Gloucester on Harbor Loop to celebrate the onset of the $7.85 million project that will remove about 140,000 cubic yards of sand and bring new life to the Annisquam.