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-- text: 'Cases in Colorado and other states argue that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
-    prevents Donald J. Trump from being president again because, they argue, he incited
-    the supporters who stormed the Capitol almost three years ago.
+- text: 'A 16-acre property once home to the long-shuttered Foxborough State Hospital
+    will soon provide housing for 141 low-income senior households.
 
 
-    The central questions are whether Section 3 applies to the presidency; whether
-    Mr. Trump’s behavior before and on Jan. 6, 2021, constituted “engaging in insurrection
-    or rebellion against” the Constitution; and whether election officials or the
-    courts can deem a person ineligible without specific action by Congress identifying
-    that person.
+    Walnut Street, an affordable housing project being developed by the Affordable
+    Housing Services Collaborative and Onyx, will turn land that has been vacant for
+    decades into much-needed affordable housing.
 
 
-    The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the answer to all of these questions was
-    yes, but other courts have disagreed. The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to have
-    the final say.
+    “Housing is empowering. No matter our age, it is a comfort not to worry about
+    whether we can afford a place,” Onyx CEO Chanda Smart said at a press conference
+    Thursday. “Senior housing for the town of Foxborough means that seniors who worked
+    and raised their families here in Foxborough still have the opportunity to remain
+    here.”
 
 
-    Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says:
+    Foxborough State Hospital opened in 1889 as the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs
+    and Inebriates for treatment of alcoholism, according to the National Park Service,
+    and was later converted to a standard psychiatric hospital. It closed in 1975,
+    and parts of the property have already been redeveloped over the years.
 
 
-    No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President
-    and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,
-    or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress,
-    or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature,
-    or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution
-    of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
-    the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by
-    a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
+    The Foxborough Housing Authority first began working on the project back in 2011.
+    The land was transferred to the agency from the state in 2017 to be used for affordable
+    housing.
 
 
-    Constitutional experts have emphasized in interviews with The New York Times that
-    the answers are not simple or self-evident.'
-- text: 'Most of Greater Boston saw heavy rain and strong winds overnight. But in
-    parts of northern New England, it was a serious snow event.
+    Acting Town Manager Paige Duncan told MassLive that the town held a number of
+    community meetings to decide what to build on the property.
 
 
-    The highest snowfall totals in the region were in Vermont, which saw as much as
-    a foot in some areas.
+    “It was controversial, but what came out was a clear support for senior housing,”
+    she said. “We really tried to address the needs of the community and we came up
+    with a project that was sensitive to the area. We didn’t want a big block of buildings
+    that towered over the neighborhood.”
 
 
-    Happy Monday!🤠 We picked up over 10 inches of snow at mid mountain overnight -
-    not a bad way to start the week! pic.twitter.com/2XuF7tHXiB — Sugarbush, Vermont
-    (@Sugarbush_VT) November 27, 2023
+    After that, she said, there was overwhelming support for the project. The permits
+    were filed in February and approved by April, an almost unheard-of timeline.
 
 
-    Here''s a look at snowfall totals across New England, according to the National
-    Weather Service.
+    The finished project will provide 141 new apartments for residents age 55 and
+    over. Of those, 35 will be reserved for people making 30% or less of the area
+    median income, and 85 will be for those making 60% AMI. Foxborough residents will
+    be given preference for 70% of the units.
 
 
-    Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories
-    to your inbox. Sign up for NBC Boston’s newsletters.
+    A second phase of the project once this one is complete will add approximately
+    60 more units.
 
 
-    Maine
+    Greg Spiers, chairman of the Housing Authority, said the new senior housing was
+    badly needed, noting there are about 5,500 elderly and disabled people on public
+    housing waiting lists in Massachusetts.
 
 
-    Madrid: 5.3"
+    “With 195 of those on that list Foxborough residents, that 70% local preference
+    for first-time rentals is one of our goals,” he said. “The need is so great for
+    affordable housing in our area and the entire state.”
 
 
-    Rangeley: 4.7"
+    Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus praised the town for its
+    dedication to creating more affordable housing, even though more than 10% of its
+    total housing units qualify as affordable. The 10% threshold is the state requirement
+    to stop projects being filed under Chapter 40B, a law which allows affordable
+    housing developments to bypass certain local permitting requirements.
 
 
-    Dallas: 2.3"
+    “You know that that is just an arbitrary number, but the real needs are significantly
+    more than that,” Augustus said. “We need more communities to take note of what
+    Foxborough is doing.”
 
 
-    Sinclair: 2"
+    Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said the project is a good example of the use of surplus
+    state land for housing. Gov. Maura Healey’s housing bond bill filed in October
+    included a proposed $30 million that would support similar projects to use underutilized
+    state property for housing. Healey also issued an executive order requesting state
+    agencies to conduct an audit of their property to find land any surplus land suitable
+    for this purpose.
 
 
-    Castle Hill: 1.6"
+    “Converting state-owned land to another entity can be a little bit of a torturous
+    pathway. We know that building all the resources you need takes time,” Driscoll
+    said Thursday. “How do we leverage the cost of land, which is one of the reasons
+    housing is so expensive, to build the type of housing we need, but do it in a
+    shorter timetable? That’s what this (project) is all about.”
 
 
-    Caribou: 1.5"
+    The project has received more than $25 million in state and federal funding, including
+    through American Rescue Plan Act rental funds and state and federal Low Income
+    Housing Tax Credits. Work on the site has not yet started.'
+- text: '“I was on my co-op last year for, like, a straight year, so coming back to
+    campus feels kind of nerve-wracking,” said Jasmine Rodriguez, 21. “But I feel
+    more experienced than I did in my first year. I had a lot of anxiety in my first
+    year, but now it’s been really chill.”
 
 
-    North Brighton: 1"
+    As about a dozen Northeastern University students went around a conference table
+    talking about their college experiences, voices were soft and answers halting,
+    at least initially. Gradually, though, the students at this check-in meeting last
+    fall began to open up and speak candidly about the challenges and adjustments
+    of college life.
 
 
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-- text: 'Looking for something fun to do indoors, now that it’s getting colder outside?
-    Wicked Local found some indoor experiences that will not only keep you warm, but
-    exercise your mind and body.
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-    One such place is Boda Borg Malden, owned by Brookline resident Chad Ellis and
-    offering a variety of challenging escape room quests.
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-    “I’m a huge nerd and just really love games, and I love smart entertainment that
-    brings people together and that people get something out of,” he said.
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-    To participate in a quest, you need three or more people. Reservations should
-    be made in advance, either online or by phone. Sign up for a two-hour quest for
-    $28 per person or a four-hour quest for $40 per person. Upon arrival, you’ll get
-    a tutorial on how to quest. Much like attending a theme park, you choose the quests
-    you want, just as you would for rides.
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-    “You know very little at the start of each quest — just the name, the theme and
-    how physically intense it’s going to be,” said Ellis.
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-    Staff members are available to help and provide nudges toward a solution if you
-    become stuck, he said.
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-    “It’s all about failure," Ellis said. "Most challenge activities are designed
-    around success and you either succeed or you don’t. With questing you are guaranteed
-    to fail, but then you learn something and then you can try again and then you
-    get closer and closer."
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-    Ellis first heard about Boda Borg in 2012, then tried it out at its headquarters
-    in Sweden. He told his wife about it and after a long search for the right location,
-    in 2015 they opened Boda Borg at site of the former longtime department store,
-    Sparks, on Pleasant Street in Malden.
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-    Despite being closed for a year due to COVID-19, business has otherwise been very
-    good since its opening.
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-    “People keep coming back, a lot of the same companies and schools keep coming
-    back," Ellis said. "During the holidays, people bring their out-of-town families.
-    They come back over and over.”
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-    Snacks and beverages are available, although no alcohol.
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-    Axe throwing
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-    Looking for a social sport that incorporates physical skill and mental fortitude?
-    Axe throwing at Revolution Axe Throwing in Everett is worth a try.
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-    "Axe throwing is a perfect activity for the winter and fall — it''s active without
-    requiring a bunch of specialized equipment or clothing (no need to fully change
-    out of your cold-weather gear to throw axes), you''ve got the perfect excuse to
-    wear your heavy duty flannel, and we always have a great variety of seasonal drink
-    options to keep your winter thematic!" wrote General Manager Chester Domoracki
-    in an email. "It can be hard to find casual spaces in the wintertime that allow
-    you to hang out in a relaxed setting without freezing, and axe throwing fills
-    that niche perfectly."
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-    Advance reservations are recommended. It’s $30 per person per hour. For larger
-    groups, two-hour sessions go for $50 per person.
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-    Revolution also runs leagues, including those for women only and for beginners.
-    They each run two months at a time for $150, less than $20 per session.
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-    Revolution Axe Throwing offers a full bar. Outside food can also be brought in.
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-    ''Amazing community'':Competitive rock climbers from Brookline, Cambridge and
-    Newton find success
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-    Rock climbing
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-    Central Rock Gym has several Greater Boston locations, including Watertown,Stoneham,
-    Waltham, Framingham, Cambridge and Boston.
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-    No experience is necessary. Central Rock offers four levels of roped climbing
-    with belays and ropes, and bouldering on walls 14 feet tall with nothing but a
-    mat below you. A day pass is $30 which does not include the rental harness, shoes,
-    and belay device.
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-    It also offers fitness and yoga classes for $15 per person.
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-    Bowling and virtual golf
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-    Howl Splitsville Top Golf in Foxborough offers two indoor sports under one roof
-    — bowling and golf. It also provides food, beverages and live music.
+    Advertisement
 
 
-    If you like bowling, you can reserve a lane. Weekday rates are $7 per game, $5
-    for shoe rental. Weekend rates are $9 per game or $5 for shoe rental until 6 p.m.
-    and $11 per game, $5 for shoe rental after 6 p.m.
+    The students were Black, Latino, and Asian American and ranged from first-years
+    to seniors, mostly from neighborhoods across Boston; the majority were the first
+    generation of their family to attend college. Most were their high schools’ valedictorians
+    — hardworking, smart students who excelled despite lacking the advantages of many
+    peers.
 
 
-    Suites can be reserved for a maximum of eight people to play virtual golf, baseball,
-    hockey, dodgeball or carnival games. Suites can be reserved in advance for $100
-    per hour per bay on weekdays and to $120 per hour per bay on weekends. Eight people
-    or fewer can play for $30 per person per bay on weekdays, $50 per person per bay
-    on weekends.
+    That’s where The Valedictorian Project came in.
 
 
-    Curling
+    The Boston-based nonprofit was founded in 2020 in response to the Boston Globe’s
+    award-winning 2019 investigative series, The Valedictorians Project, which found
+    that the city’s best and brightest public school students often encounter major
+    obstacles to their academic and professional goals. (The Globe is not involved
+    with the organization.)
 
 
-    According to the World Curling Federation, curling is played on ice where two
-    teams take it turns sliding stones made of granite toward a target — known as
-    a house.
+    The Valedictorian Project matches participating high school graduates with peer
+    mentors close to their age and a senior mentor who is an experienced professional
+    in their intended line of work. It also provides a $500 stipend for books and
+    other necessities, and supplemental support through partnerships with other organizations
+    to help students navigate their new lives on campus and choose career paths.
 
 
-    Traditional curling teams are comprised of four players, while the mixed doubles
-    version of the sport consists of teams of two — one female and one male. In women’s,
-    men’s and wheelchair curling, teams are allowed a fifth player known as the alternate
-    — a substitute. Each team designates a skip (team captain) and vice skip.
+    “Many of our mentors are first-gen college students themselves,” cofounder and
+    executive director Amy McDermott said in an interview. “Many navigated very similar
+    personal backgrounds to our mentees. I hear often in our mentor interviews, they
+    want to be that person that they wish they had in navigating college.”
 
 
-    Bog Ice Arena in Kingston offers curling classes, three per session for $150.
+    Advertisement
 
 
-    Darts
+    This academic year marks a milestone for the organization, as its first cohort
+    of college freshmen are now seniors.
 
 
-    The Flight Club in Boston''s Seaport District takes darts into the 21st century.
-    It''s a one-of-a-kind technology creates a fast-paced, multi-player gaming experience.
+    McDermott said the organization began by inviting Boston valedictorians to participate
+    in its first year, then added students from Lawrence in year two, Brockton and
+    Worcester in 2022, and Chelsea last spring.
 
 
-    The Flight Club offers six easy-to-learn games for up to 12 guests to play simultaneously.
-    If you''re more advanced, there are more challenging levels.
+    Jasmine Rodriguez took part in a roundtable discussion at Northeastern University
+    for students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe
+    Staff
 
 
-    Reservations are recommended in advance. It’s $15 per person for 90 minutes. Guests
-    must be 21 or older after 6 p.m. Sunday through Friday, and open to close on Saturday.
+    Mentor John Marley, 30, of Taunton, said the organization helps level the playing
+    field for young people who don’t come from privileged backgrounds.
 
 
-    The Flight Club offers food and beverages, including wine, beer and cocktails.'
-- text: 'Man suffers life-threatening injures in Boston shooting; suspect under arrest
+    “Students from wealthier families have always had these mentorship relationships,
+    always had these connections, and those things are just unseen,” said Marley,
+    an attorney whose family came to the United States from Jamaica when he was 5.
+    “Unfairly or not ... it’s always advantaged a particular group and class of students
+    over another. And I think they do a good job addressing that.”
 
 
-    A suspect is facing charges after a man suffered life-threatening injuries in
-    a shooting Monday in Roxbury.Boston police officers responded just before 4 a.m.
-    to a ShotSpotter activation for six rounds of gunfire in the area of 48 Clifford
-    St.Officers found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. The victim
-    was taken to a local hospital. Police said a suspect had been arrested, however,
-    the person''s identity was not released.WCVB will have more information when it
-    becomes available.
+    This academic year, The Valedictorian Project is supporting 140 students, of whom
+    about three-quarters are first-generation college students and roughly 85 percent
+    are people of color, according to McDermott. Besides Northeastern, students in
+    the program attend Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Brown, Yale, Stanford,
+    and other colleges around the country, she said.
 
 
-    A suspect is facing charges after a man suffered life-threatening injuries in
-    a shooting Monday in Roxbury.
+    As a student of color at an expensive private university, Rodriguez said, “You
+    have to physically go out and try to find people that look like you. And I feel
+    like for everyone else, it’s very easy. They find them in their classes. But it’s
+    like, in my classes there’ll be like one other Black or Hispanic person.”
 
 
-    Boston police officers responded just before 4 a.m. to a ShotSpotter activation
-    for six rounds of gunfire in the area of 48 Clifford St.
+    Advertisement
 
 
-    Advertisement
+    Rodriguez, a Dorchester native majoring in communications and sociology, recently
+    spent a year as a social media co-op for an organization that supports domestic
+    violence victims. She is drawn to work that will help others, she said, because
+    she saw people in need in her neighborhood and her own family as she grew up.
 
 
-    Officers found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. The victim
-    was taken to a local hospital.
+    “I saw a lot of people that look like me struggle and go through a lot of things,”
+    she said. “My mom is an immigrant. … We grew up on Section 8 [housing assistance];
+    we grew up on food stamps and stuff like that.”
 
 
-    Police said a suspect had been arrested, however, the person''s identity was not
-    released.
+    Ciana Omnis participated in a Northeastern University roundtable discussion for
+    students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
 
 
-    WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.'
-- text: 'That means that at some point far into the future, literally no one would
-    be allowed to buy tobacco in Brookline, regardless of his or her age. Currently,
-    the legal age to purchase tobacco statewide is 21.
+    Ciana Omnis, 20, a third-year industrial engineering major who grew up in Florida,
+    moved to Dorchester at age 14, and was the 2021 valedictorian at Brighton High
+    School. She is the eldest of three children, so she can’t lean on older siblings
+    for advice, she said.
 
 
-    Currently, no one born in the 21st century is allowed to buy tobacco in the Boston
-    suburb of 60,000 people after Town Meeting voters adopted a first-in-the-nation
-    bylaw in 2020. The rule went into effect about a year later, gradually prohibiting
-    tobacco or e-cigarette sales to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2000.
+    Her father, a truck driver who immigrated to the United States from Haiti, didn’t
+    complete high school, she said, while her mother, a health care administrator,
+    completed an associate’s degree but doesn’t yet have her bachelor’s.
 
 
-    During the depths of the pandemic, Brookline adopted a public health measure unlike
-    any in the country. Massachusetts’ highest court could now determine whether it
-    can stay.
+    “I’ve met a lot of people in college who have parents who have done four-year
+    degrees or whatnot, or even other kinds of higher education, so they’re able to
+    get advice from their parents,” Omnis said. “For me, it’s been a bit harder, because
+    I have to kind of figure out certain things on my own.”
 
 
     Advertisement
 
 
-    The Brookline rule has been hailed as a novel effort to curb youth tobacco use
-    by going far beyond setting a minimum age, effectively banning future generations
-    from ever purchasing tobacco. New Zealand last year adopted a similar policy,
-    but Brookline’s bylaw remains the only one of its kind in the United States, though
-    it’s something other towns hope to emulate.
+    Her mentors help fill that gap, she said, and the program helps her “meet other
+    people who have the same background as me.”
 
 
-    “We need to do more than what we’ve been doing,” said Maureen Buzby, the tobacco
-    inspection coordinator for several Massachusetts communities, including Melrose,
-    Stoneham, and Wakefield, where officials are weighing restrictions similar to
-    Brookline’s. “We’ve done a lot of policy, a lot of regulation, a lot of state
-    law. Frankly, they’ve worked as Band-Aids.”
+    After they met through a Valedictorian Project event, John Le, who was the 2022
+    valedictorian at East Boston High School, became friends with Connor Lashley,
+    the 2022 valedictorian at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester.
 
 
-    But now, a ruling by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court could undo the attempt
-    at a wider salve. The high court’s justices this month heard a challenge from
-    a group of Brookline businesses, whose attorneys argue that Brookline’s bylaw
-    is unconstitutional and conflicts with the 2018 state law that set the legal age
-    at 21.
+    “One of the issues is socializing, like making a friend group, because from my
+    experience, from each class you kind of like meet people there, but if you’re
+    not in the same major, you might not be able to maintain a relationship with them,”
+    said Le, 20.
 
 
-    A ban, even implemented gradually, could have wide ramifications for convenience
-    stores, where tobacco products account for more than one-quarter of merchandise
-    sales nationally, according to a Massachusetts trade group representing local
-    retailers. The lawsuit has also drawn the support of some of the tobacco’s industry’s
-    biggest players hoping to stop the policy before it gains steam.
+    The Valedictorian Project, he added, “has really been helpful to meet people at
+    Northeastern and ... find people with similar interests.”
 
 
-    Advertisement
+    Lashley, 19, said his mentors have helped him learn how to network with others
+    in his field and steered him toward scholarship opportunities, and he can count
+    on their support whenever he needs it.
 
 
-    Backing Brookline’s bylaw is the state of Massachusetts, which argued in a brief
-    that the town is addressing “a legitimate health concern.” Governor Maura Healey
-    approved Brookline’s rule when she was attorney general.
+    “They’re pretty much available the same day if stuff comes up,” he said.
 
 
-    A slew of other policymakers, from California lawmakers to those in Hawaii, have
-    proposed their own bans. While the legal nuances could shift from state to state,
-    the Massachusetts SJC ruling could provide an important barometer, including clearing
-    others in Massachusetts to pursue their own restrictions or sending them back
-    to the drawing board.
+    Connor Lashley (left) and John Le took part in a roundtable discussion at Northeastern
+    University for students participating in The Valedictorian Project. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe
+    Staff
 
 
-    “I would think [tobacco companies] may consider it a bit of a long shot, but a
-    potentially mortal threat to their industry,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director
-    of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of
-    Law, which is representing Brookline in the lawsuit.
+    Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @jeremycfox.'
+- text: 'LEVERETT — Dakin Humane Society announced Wednesday that it has sold its
+    former animal shelter at 63 Montague Road in Leverett to Better Together Dog Rescue.
 
 
-    “What the SJC does in this case may not have any impact on whether a policy may
-    withstand a legal challenge in other states,” he added. “But it certainly would
-    show it’s possible, given the right legal environment, to implement a policy that
-    is truly an end-game policy for tobacco sales.”
+    The news release didn’t include a sales price for the 3,480-square-foot building
+    on 5 acres of land.
 
 
-    Town hall on Washington Street in Brookline. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
+    But records at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds show the sale was for $575,000.'
+- text: 'Joan Acocella, a cultural critic whose elegant, erudite essays about dance
+    and literature appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books for
+    more than four decades, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.
 
 
-    It’s unclear when the SJC will issue its ruling. Technically, the high court will
-    decide whether to uphold a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, known
-    as Six Brothers v. Brookline, where store owners argued Brookline’s tobacco ban
-    undercuts the 2018 law and the intent of the Legislature to set a minimum age.
+    Her son, Bartholomew Acocella, said the cause was cancer.
 
 
-    Advertisement
+    Ms. Acocella (pronounced ack-ah-CHELL-uh) wrote deeply about dancers and choreographers,
+    including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine. She scrutinized
+    the vicissitudes of the New York City Ballet as well as the feats of the ballroom-dancing
+    pros and celebrity oafs of the popular TV series “Dancing With the Stars.”
 
 
-    At the time, state policymakers noted the minimum age law would replace what had
-    become a “confusing and bewildering patchwork” of rules across towns and cities,
-    Patrick Tinsley, an attorney representing the Brookline retailers, said during
-    the SJC hearing.
+    She was The New Yorker’s dance critic from 1998 to 2019 and freelanced for The
+    Review for 33 years. Her final articles for The Review were a two-part commentary
+    in May on the biography “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century,” by Jennifer
+    Homans, her successor as The New Yorker’s dance critic.
 
 
-    Moreover, opponents of Brookline’s rule contend it violates equal protection guarantees
-    in the state constitution. American Snuff Co. — a subsidiary of the tobacco giant
-    American Reynolds — argued in a court brief that allowing someone born at 11:59
-    p.m. on Dec. 31, 1999 to buy cigarettes but permanently barring someone born one
-    second later is “discriminatory treatment [that] cannot pass constitutional muster.”
+    “What she wrote for us,” Emily Greenhouse, the editor of The Review, said in an
+    email, “was often mischievous and always delicious — on crotch shots and cuss
+    words, on Neapolitan hand gestures and Isadora Duncan’s emphasis on the solar
+    plexus.”'
+- text: 'StreetsblogMASS relies on the generous support of readers like you. Help
+    us meet our year-end fundraising goals – give today!
 
 
-    A company spokesperson declined to comment further.
+    Last week, the labor union that represents most Boston police officers ratified
+    a new contract that will introduce a number of reforms – including one that will
+    start allowing civilians to take unwanted traffic detail shifts at construction
+    sites.
 
 
-    “At what point do adults have the freedom to make their own choices about the
-    products they consume?” said Peter Brennan, executive director of the New England
-    Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association, a trade organization that
-    represents 7,000 retailers.
+    Under the former contract, Boston Police officers were the only people allowed
+    to direct traffic for events and at construction sites. And they got paid extremely
+    handsomely to do so: Boston police working as flaggers take home $60 an hour.
 
 
-    The Brookline rule, he said, is a “sneaky, end-around way” toward an outright
-    ban. “It sets a moving goalpost.”
+    In spite of that lucrative pay, Boston has a lot of construction sites, and fewer
+    and fewer people who want to wear a police uniform.
 
 
-    At a hearing this month, justices on the SJC considered the law’s weighty ramifications.
-    Justice Scott L. Kafker said, in effect, the bylaw would eventually raise the
-    minimum age “to the point where it renders everybody too young to buy.”
+    Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara told StreetsblogMASS earlier this year that
+    over 40 percent of requests for police details at construction sites were going
+    unfilled.
 
 
-    Advertisement
+    The new labor contract removes a key barrier to reforming this system. But there
+    is still a city ordinance on the books that requires at least one Boston Police
+    officer at every city construction site "to protect the safety and general welfare
+    of the public and to preserve the free circulation of traffic."
 
 
-    “Very clever,” he mused. “I just don’t know if that’s legal.”
+    A press spokesperson for Mayor Michelle Wu told StreetsblogMASS last week that
+    their office is aware of the ordinance and has "identified multiple legal paths
+    to implementing the new collective bargaining agreement."
 
 
-    Attorneys for Brookline argue the bylaw is “not a minimum,” but a ban, which is
-    legal under the 2018 state law allowing towns or cities to pursue their own rule
-    that “limits or prohibits the purchase of tobacco products.”
+    Old rules created absurd delays for street projects
 
 
-    Katharine Silbaugh, a Boston University law professor and one of the leading petitioners
-    of Brookline’s bylaw, argued that nicotine and tobacco shouldn’t be regulated
-    like alcohol or cannabis, which “whether we’re right or not, we believe at some
-    age, they are safe enough to use.”
+    Councilor Lara also told StreetsblogMASS that many privately-run construction
+    sites will simply ignore the law and do their work without a flagger if nobody
+    responds to their requests for a detail.
 
 
-    “It doesn’t make sense to have an age restriction that seems to indicate that
-    you have become old enough to smoke,” she said. “You’re never old enough to smoke.”
+    But construction firms who are sticklers for the rules can end up waiting months
+    before a cop shows up to let them get their work done.
 
 
-    Town data indicate that tobacco use among high schoolers has steadily plunged:
-    In 2013, for example, 26 percent of high schoolers said they used tobacco at some
-    point.
+    That''s what happened earlier this year in Oak Square, where the MBTA waited a
+    full year for a police detail to show up so that they could paint some new crosswalks
+    on Washington Street in Oak Square.
 
 
-    In a 2023 survey, just 3 percent of Brookline high schoolers said they had used
-    tobacco in the previous 30 days, while 9 percent said they had vaped; 19 percent
-    said they vaped at some point in their lives. Still, health experts caution: It’s
-    hard to draw a direct connection to the town’s new bylaw.
+    Neighbors report that those crosswalks finally got painted in August – after a
+    year-long wait.
 
 
-    “We’ll never be able to point to a direct link [to the bylaw],” said Sigalle Reiss,
-    Brookline’s public health director. But, she said, the policy is both an attempt
-    to reduce exposure and “institute change across a whole community.”
+    New contract hikes pay, allows civilian flaggers
 
 
-    “We’re not naïve. We know Brookline is not an island,” she said. “But we do feel
-    like one community has to take that first step.”
+    For all these reasons, allowing civilian flaggers at construction sites had been
+    one of the city''s key points of negotiation for a new collective bargaining agreement
+    with its police union.
 
 
-    Advertisement
+    Police details will still be required at "high-priority" events and construction
+    sites, which involve major streets, busy intersections, or major events that anticipate
+    over 5,000 attendees. The new contract would also pay cops who work those high-priority
+    details "the highest overtime rate of the most senior officer."
 
 
-    Health officials in Melrose, Stoneham, and Wakefield — three communities clustered
-    north of Boston — have held public hearings on their proposed regulation, which
-    would ban the sale of tobacco or e-cigarette products to anyone born on or after
-    Jan. 1, 2004. But they’ve tabled any votes until after the SJC ruling, said Anthony
-    Chui, the health director for all three communities.
+    At other worksites, such as those along quiet neighborhood streets, Boston Police
+    would still get the right of first refusal to fill traffic details. But if no
+    Boston Police are interested, the work can be offered to other non-BPD certified
+    officers, including campus police and retired Boston cops. If people with those
+    qualifications still aren''t interested, construction contractors can then offer
+    the job to civilian workers.
 
 
-    Should they, and perhaps others, adopt similar rules, proponents say that could
-    eventually build momentum toward the adoption of a statewide law.
+    The agreement further specifies that anyone directing traffic in those lower-priority
+    sites will earn $60 per hour.
 
 
-    But it often takes years for Beacon Hill to join such a groundswell. When the
-    Legislature voted in 2018 to increase the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to
-    21, half the state’s towns and cities, Boston included, had already done so, sometimes
-    years earlier.
+    The new agreement will also ban cops from double-booking their shifts, which allowed
+    some to get paid twice for the same period of time when one detail ended early.
 
 
-    Matt Stout can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @mattpstout.'
+    Incredibly, the police department is still using a labor-intensive paper-based
+    system to assign details in each police district. The new agreement will allow
+    for a citywide electronic scheduling system.'
 pipeline_tag: text-classification
 inference: false
 base_model: sentence-transformers/paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2
@@ -574,7 +396,7 @@ model-index:
       split: test
     metrics:
     - type: accuracy
-      value: 0.6324376199616123
+      value: 0.6529242569511026
       name: Accuracy
 ---
 
@@ -610,7 +432,7 @@ The model has been trained using an efficient few-shot learning technique that i
 ### Metrics
 | Label   | Accuracy |
 |:--------|:---------|
-| **all** | 0.6324   |
+| **all** | 0.6529   |
 
 ## Uses
 
@@ -630,21 +452,11 @@ from setfit import SetFitModel
 # Download from the 🤗 Hub
 model = SetFitModel.from_pretrained("Kevinger/setfit-hub-multilabel-example")
 # Run inference
-preds = model("Man suffers life-threatening injures in Boston shooting; suspect under arrest
-
-A suspect is facing charges after a man suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting Monday in Roxbury.Boston police officers responded just before 4 a.m. to a ShotSpotter activation for six rounds of gunfire in the area of 48 Clifford St.Officers found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to a local hospital. Police said a suspect had been arrested, however, the person's identity was not released.WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.
-
-A suspect is facing charges after a man suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting Monday in Roxbury.
-
-Boston police officers responded just before 4 a.m. to a ShotSpotter activation for six rounds of gunfire in the area of 48 Clifford St.
-
-Advertisement
-
-Officers found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to a local hospital.
+preds = model("LEVERETT — Dakin Humane Society announced Wednesday that it has sold its former animal shelter at 63 Montague Road in Leverett to Better Together Dog Rescue.
 
-Police said a suspect had been arrested, however, the person's identity was not released.
+The news release didn’t include a sales price for the 3,480-square-foot building on 5 acres of land.
 
-WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.")
+But records at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds show the sale was for $575,000.")
 ```
 
 <!--
@@ -676,7 +488,7 @@ WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.")
 ### Training Set Metrics
 | Training set | Min | Median   | Max  |
 |:-------------|:----|:---------|:-----|
-| Word count   | 22  | 394.2812 | 1802 |
+| Word count   | 53  | 386.3906 | 2161 |
 
 ### Training Hyperparameters
 - batch_size: (8, 8)
@@ -699,30 +511,30 @@ WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.")
 ### Training Results
 | Epoch  | Step | Training Loss | Validation Loss |
 |:------:|:----:|:-------------:|:---------------:|
-| 0.0008 | 1    | 0.1705        | -               |
-| 0.0417 | 50   | 0.1864        | -               |
-| 0.0833 | 100  | 0.3521        | -               |
-| 0.125  | 150  | 0.1212        | -               |
-| 0.1667 | 200  | 0.0091        | -               |
-| 0.2083 | 250  | 0.007         | -               |
-| 0.25   | 300  | 0.0005        | -               |
-| 0.2917 | 350  | 0.0008        | -               |
-| 0.3333 | 400  | 0.0005        | -               |
+| 0.0008 | 1    | 0.1304        | -               |
+| 0.0417 | 50   | 0.1596        | -               |
+| 0.0833 | 100  | 0.132         | -               |
+| 0.125  | 150  | 0.0064        | -               |
+| 0.1667 | 200  | 0.0017        | -               |
+| 0.2083 | 250  | 0.0004        | -               |
+| 0.25   | 300  | 0.0001        | -               |
+| 0.2917 | 350  | 0.0002        | -               |
+| 0.3333 | 400  | 0.0003        | -               |
 | 0.375  | 450  | 0.0002        | -               |
-| 0.4167 | 500  | 0.0002        | -               |
+| 0.4167 | 500  | 0.0001        | -               |
 | 0.4583 | 550  | 0.0002        | -               |
 | 0.5    | 600  | 0.0002        | -               |
 | 0.5417 | 650  | 0.0002        | -               |
-| 0.5833 | 700  | 0.0002        | -               |
-| 0.625  | 750  | 0.0002        | -               |
-| 0.6667 | 800  | 0.0002        | -               |
+| 0.5833 | 700  | 0.0001        | -               |
+| 0.625  | 750  | 0.0001        | -               |
+| 0.6667 | 800  | 0.0001        | -               |
 | 0.7083 | 850  | 0.0001        | -               |
-| 0.75   | 900  | 0.0001        | -               |
+| 0.75   | 900  | 0.0           | -               |
 | 0.7917 | 950  | 0.0001        | -               |
 | 0.8333 | 1000 | 0.0001        | -               |
 | 0.875  | 1050 | 0.0001        | -               |
 | 0.9167 | 1100 | 0.0001        | -               |
-| 0.9583 | 1150 | 0.0001        | -               |
+| 0.9583 | 1150 | 0.0           | -               |
 | 1.0    | 1200 | 0.0001        | -               |
 
 ### Framework Versions
@@ -731,8 +543,8 @@ WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.")
 - Sentence Transformers: 2.3.1
 - Transformers: 4.35.2
 - PyTorch: 2.1.0+cu121
-- Datasets: 2.16.1
-- Tokenizers: 0.15.1
+- Datasets: 2.17.0
+- Tokenizers: 0.15.2
 
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