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Malden City Council Members host new “Pumpkin SMASH” event

November 15, 2024 NeighborhoodView 1

By Annie Sarlin Going to school on a Saturday might be a nightmare to many students, but the opportunity to smash their Halloween pumpkins motivated many to return to the Linden STEAM Academy on Saturday, Nov. 2. The air smelled faintly of overripe produce as families and Malden residents gathered in the school parking lot to throw their jack-o’-lanterns into a compost truck for the city’s first “Pumpkin SMASH.” Malden City Council members Jadeane Sica and Craig Spadafora, in coalition with the city of Malden, hosted the event to encourage people to compost their pumpkins instead of throwing them away. “Councilor Sica and I, we do these events throughout the year, we do a clothing drive, we do Community Safety Day, so we try to do new and fun things,” said Spadafora. “Not only is it [the “Pumpkin SMASH”] a fun event, but it also helps us take pumpkins out of the waste and… recycle in a proper way.” The truck came from Black Earth Compost, a company that collects waste from homes, schools, and […]

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“13 Most Haunted Crime Scenes Beyond Boston” with author Sam Baltrusis

October 11, 2016 neighbormedia 0

Listen up guys and ghouls! Neighborhood View’s Sam Baltrusis, author of the new book “13 Most Haunted Crime Scenes Beyond Boston,” writes about the things that go bump in the night. He assembled a motley crew of the area’s most haunted crime scenes in a show airing on MATV on Fridays at 10 p.m., Saturdays at 3 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. in October. He also penned a book perfect for the Halloween season. The 30 minute Halloween-themed TV show “13 Most Haunted Crime Scenes Beyond Boston” will be available to public access stations across the state by DVD or digital download on October 13. The Sea Witch smells like death. “It’s the paint,” joked one of the volunteers who greeted me as I clumsily stumbled aboard the historic USS Salem in Quincy. “There were hundreds of dead bodies on here during the earthquake in Greece in 1953 and many of them died from burns … so that could explain the peculiar smell as well.” One of the first things I was told when […]