Lipper-Garabedian claims victory in 5th Middlesex Senate primary

Housing Families met with Senator Lewis, Representative Steve Ultrino, and others at the State House on June 2, 2015 to ask for funding for Youth Harbor, which assists homeless, unaccompanied high school students with housing and individual life skills.

By Martha Bezzat Since launching in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Malden Neighbors Helping Neighbors (MNHN) continues to make a profound impact on Malden households by connecting those in need with resources.  Formed by Malden resident Meera Krishnan — inspired by her own sister’s Newton Facebook group — her husband, AJ Kumar, and James Meickle, leader of a neighborhood mutual aid group, MNHN has blossomed from a tight knit group of “lead organizers” who interface with local and state agencies and officials to navigate larger issues. It now includes a network of “neighborhood point persons” who daily process requests through the organization’s website and Facebook page.  To date, the all-volunteer organization has helped more than 600 households with such tasks as food delivery, housing/financial assistance (through referrals to ABCD, Housing Families, CityLife, and others), and prescription pick-up. Volunteers have also managed yardwork, furniture moves, and assisting with baby equipment. Lead organizers and neighborhood point people, working from their computers, coordinate delivery volunteers (delivering weekly to now 80 households), check-in-callers, generous donors, […]

Neighborhood View, Malden’s community-powered news initiative, has relaunched and extends an invitation to residents: Help tell the stories of Malden.  An upcoming Citizen Journalism 101 workshop welcomes community members to train as citizen reporters, and the program also offers other ways to contribute. The relaunch was formally announced at the Malden City Council meeting on December 16, where founder and coordinator Anne D’Urso-Rose presented an overview of the project’s goals and the variety of ways residents can get involved. D’Urso-Rose now works as a volunteer contractor to Urban Media Arts, where the initiative began in 2014.   “Some of you remember an era when Malden had a daily newspaper and two weeklies. Today, like much of the country, we live with far less local news coverage,” D’Urso-Rose told councilors. “In that landscape, Neighborhood View has emerged as an important part of Malden’s local news ecosystem, providing in-depth news stories that aren’t available anywhere else.”   Neighborhood View trains and mentors citizen reporters — community members who may not have formal journalism backgrounds but who are curious, observant, and want to be more engaged in […]