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Dec 2, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | ivy scott

Share The Newton diner is one of hundreds of businesses around the state — including restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and hotels — to rethink the approach to food waste in the two years since Massachusetts banned businesses that generate more than 1,000 pounds of food waste a week from tossing those scraps in the garbage.

Dec 1, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | ivy scott

NEWTON — Johnny’s Luncheonette was bustling at lunchtime on a recent Tuesday, with a steady flow of customers sliding in and out of plum-colored booths and digging into flapjacks and sandwiches. Behind the scenes, through a swinging silver door that led to the kitchen, diner staff were busy separating food scraps from the trash: metallic butter wrappers and tiny jam packets into the garbage, the last bites of sandwiches into three 45-gallon compost bins the restaurant fills to the brim each week.

Nov 24, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | ivy scott

The couple’s 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom home in Roslindale is similar to many on the block: a living room filled with toys for their two elementary-aged children; an office for Wesselink, a Boston University epidemiologist; and two cars in the driveway so she can pick the kids up from school while Maher is coaching soccer practice at the Hyde Park high school where he also teaches math.

Nov 16, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | ivy scott

Gripping a soldering iron firmly in his right hand, Osvaldo Medina angled the tip toward the circuit board and prepared to attach a small red lightbulb. He watched puffs of smoke curl up as hot silver drops melted onto the board, fixing the bulb in place. Then he stepped back to admire his handiwork, passing the iron to one of his classmates. Medina, 37, never imagined three years ago that he’d be working toward a degree in renewable energy technologies.

Oct 22, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | ivy scott |John Hilliard

“The response to gun violence in communities is to leave flowers and thoughts and prayers,” Hollander said. “But then everything disintegrates and disappears and we’re onto the next, until it happens again.”In the year since the shooting, Lewiston has done its best to forge a new path, but evidence of the tragedy remains. Blue hearts in doorways, “Love Always Wins” banners in public parks, stickers on laptops, and coffee mugs pledging peace and togetherness.