Thank you to Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker for helping us celebrate. We open at 5:00 a.m. on Monday, May 10. To celebrate we hosted small, socially distant gatherings with our city officials, state representatives, and the business partners and major donors that made the building of your new Demakes Family YMCA […]
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By Anne Marie Tobin, Essex Media Group In early July, the sign on the door of the Torigian Family YMCA said it all — We’re back. After a 16-week closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Torigian YMCA was the first of four operated by the YMCA of Metro North to reopen to the public […]
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Kathleen Walsh, President and CEO of the YMCA of Metro North association, has issued the following statement informing the public about enhanced safety policies at YMCA branches in Lynn, Melrose, Peabody, Saugus, and Stoneham. As exhausting as the past year has been, we need to push harder. Our health care workers, emergency response personnel, child […]
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Like many children this Spring, seven-year-old Wyatt McDonald was quarantined, learning remotely, and spent a month at home with no outside contact from family or friends. Like many parents and caregivers, Susan McDonald worked from home full-time while trying to help her son adjust to a new academic routine. The McDonalds are a typical family […]
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We Need Your Support Now More Than Ever Thank you to all the YMCA of Metro North members and supporters who donated, volunteered, and who agreed to sustain their membership with us during this unprecedented interruption in our daily health and family routines. Your generosity has enabled us to provide essential nutrition and child […]
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