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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To the Community of Lynn: The Lynn Education District Partnership declares our solidarity against racism, bigotry and the inequities that all non-white people have faced in our country for hundreds of years. This has resulted in violence, and unfair treatment on a number of levels to people of color across the country. We pledge to […]
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Yesterday, the YMCA of Metro North participated in Blackout Tuesday, a social media movement to create space for time and reflection on the racial and social injustice experienced by people of color in our nation. The pain and anguish brought on by the violent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many other people […]
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