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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Georgia resident becomes first $2 million prize winner from Mass. Lottery ticket game
Vanesa Menijvar Acosta is fortunate. The resident of Norcross, Georgia, is the first $2 million grand prize winner in the Massachusetts State Lottery's '$25,000,000 Mega Money' instant ticket game, lottery officials said in a statement on Wednesday, May 28. Lottery officials said she chose the cash option and received a one-time payment of $1,300,000 before taxes. Acosta told lottery officials that she plans on using her winnings to buy a house and go to college. The winning ticket, which was a gift from her father, , was purchased at East Boston Corner Market, 233 London St. in East Boston. The store will receive a $20,000 bonus for its sale of this ticket. The store will receive a $20,000 bonus for its sale of the ticket. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
3 Mass. Lottery tickets worth $100K won, claimed on Friday
Three winning lottery tickets worth $100,000 were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Friday, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery website. One of the winning tickets came from the game, 'Mass Cash.' The ticket was sold at a Shaw's market in Worcester and was won during the game's drawing held on May 30. The winning numbers were 5,11,14,25,35. A $100,000 ticket was claimed on Friday from the game, '300X.' The ticket was sold in Beverly at Schooner Hannah Beer & Wine. The odds of winning the game's grand prize of $15 million are one in 5,376,000. Three grand prize tickets were sent out, two have been claimed, leaving one remaining. Another $100,000 ticket was sold in East Boston at the East Boston Corner Market. The prize was won in the game, '$15,000,000 Colossal Millions.' Although three grand prize tickets in the amount of $15 million have been dispersed across the state for 'Colossal Millions,' none of the tickets have been claimed. The odds of winning the $15 million prize are one in 5,040,000. The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600. Across the state, there were 666 prizes worth $600 or more that were won or claimed in all lottery games on Friday, including 60 in Boston, 24 in Springfield, and 20 in Worcester. Mass. State Lottery winner: 2nd $2M prize claimed from $50 ticket in 2 days Mass. State Lottery winner: $100K prize claimed in $2 game; one grand prize remains Winning $100,000 Mass Cash ticket sold at Chelsea Market Basket Winning $100,000 Mass Cash ticket sold at Weymouth convenience store Read the original article on MassLive.
New York Times
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Building a Home From 100 Miles of Cord
The artist Chiharu Shiota has drawn a simple shape in thin air and at monumental scale — a rectangle with a pitched roof, instantly recognizable as the universal symbol of home. This ethereal installation is made of polyester cord — some 21,000 lengths of it, streaming down 23 feet from the ceiling of the ICA Watershed, a massive exhibition space at an active shipyard in East Boston. A rectangular forest of blood-red cords hangs nearly to the floor of this former factory space. Inside, the cords shift to lengths of black that form a dark silhouette of a house. Visible within this mirage-like structure are antique furnishings — a four-poster bed, rocking chair, dinette set, sewing table and chair — with a spectacular flock of paper, some 6,000 sheets, fluttering above the domestic tableau. Shiota's new commission, titled 'Home Less Home,' opened Thursday under the banner of the inaugural citywide Boston Public Art Triennial and will remain on view through Sept. 1. 'The house shape looks like a shadow because home does not exist,' Shiota said in a recent interview at the Watershed, as she reached among the cords to affix the final pieces of paper with a stapler. 'Home is like something in your heart, inside,' added the soft-spoken artist, 53, who grew up in Osaka and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1997. Shiota's immigrant story, both personal and age-old, echoes those of many residents living in East Boston near the shipyard, once the second largest point of immigration in the United States after Ellis Island. Earlier this spring the ICA distributed a flier asking the local community to consider Shiota's open-ended questions of 'what home means, what it feels like to leave home and what it takes to rebuild it.' Their personal stories, photographs, drawings and documents were reproduced on the sheets of white paper animating her installation. For almost three decades, the artist has created haunting, visceral environments using vast webs and fields of her signature cords — she calls them 'threads' — entwined with accumulations of well-worn objects, like shoes or beds that evoke both human presence and absence. At the Venice Biennale in 2015, Shiota transformed the Japanese Pavilion with an atmospheric matrix of red thread embedded with thousands of collected keys raining down into wooden rowboats — objects poetically summoning ideas of entry, exit, passage, afterlife. A midcareer retrospective that opened in 2019 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, 'The Soul Trembles,' has toured Busan, South Korea; Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; Taipei, Taiwan; Jakarta, Indonesia; Brisbane, Australia; and most recently Paris — with an accompanying monograph published this spring by Skira (the show travels next to Italy and Canada). Mami Kataoka, the director of Mori Art Museum who organized the retrospective, said by email that she has been astonished by visitor numbers worldwide that have far exceeded each institution's expectations. 'Beyond cultural differences, this response underscores the universality of the themes in Chiharu's work,' Kataoka wrote, including 'our shared fear about an uncertain future and our common quest to understand the meaning of life and what may lie beyond it.' Shiota left her own home in Japan with just one suitcase to study abroad, eventually finding her way to Berlin. She trained as an abstract painter but early on shifted to 'painting in the air,' she called it, using networks of wool thread, a medium she felt better conjured the intangible tangles of emotions and invisible connections among people. 'Many times I'm using red string, the color of blood,' she said, symbolic of 'family, nation, religion, survival.' In Berlin, a city she found weighted with history, and inspiring to her artwork, Shiota met her husband and raised their daughter, who is 18. 'Now I have the feeling I have two home countries,' said the artist, who often collects discarded suitcases and other commonplace items at Berlin flea markets for her installations. For the ICA Watershed, Shiota's largest museum show in the U.S., she has also adapted her 2014 piece 'Accumulation — Searching for the Destination' near the entrance as part of her reflection on home. Thirty pieces of vintage leather luggage, dangling inside another shower of red threads, lead viewers into the show. Some of the suitcases are packed with an internal motor, making them bob as though adrift at sea. 'Each person, one suitcase — they're ready to go but we don't know where,' said Shiota, who will have solo shows in New York this fall at the Japan Society and Templon gallery. 'Chiharu is incredible at picking these objects that feel like they have this lifetime of wear and use and memory in them, that can be a kind of surrogate for a human story,' said Ruth Erickson, the chief curator at the ICA. She invited Shiota to make the site-specific installation for the cavernous Watershed space, calling her 'an artist who understands how to work at a scale that can be a real challenge.' 'Home Less Home' comprises around 100 miles of cord, roughly the distance from the Watershed to Cape Cod. Walking the processional length of the installation, a visitor experiences it perceptually dissolving into singular threads up close, while in longer views, it coalesces into a majestic volume. Shiota has created a winding pathway through the heart of her project, and viewers can see at close range what's printed on the fluttering sheets of paper. There are photographs of airport reunions, children playing on front lawns, a Venezuelan's first experience of snow in Boston. One person offered a recipe for apple dumplings. A child's drawing of a house includes the handwritten line, 'Home is all the important people who makes the life better.' A woman contributed her own falsified adoption papers deeming her an orphan, with the accompanying message: 'May all Korean adoptees find their way back home.' While none of Shiota's work is overtly political, 'this idea of where one makes one's home and what the connections are to a place could never be more at the forefront of our minds,' Erickson said. 'We see a country and an administration really analyzing those rights.' Against the backdrop of court cases and debates raging in the news cycle about the fate of immigrants, who so often are portrayed as a faceless monolith, the testimonies in 'Home Less Home' are acute in their individuality. Sifting through these collected stories, they touched Shiota like a chorus of voices. 'I never met this person,' she said, 'but I feel like I know this person.'
CBS News
17-05-2025
- Health
- CBS News
East Boston facility offering same-day mental health services, in particular for immigrant communities
Since the pandemic, the need for mental health services has skyrocketed and people have been forced to wait weeks or even months for help. In East Boston, a new facility is offering people help as soon as they need it. At NeighborHealth in East Boston, they offer same-day emergency services for mental health. "We help everyone who comes to our door, no matter what it is," said Tracey Weeden, the vice president and chief behavioral health officer at NeighborHealth. Same-day mental health services At the facility, it's nothing like a traditional emergency department, where many patients spend hours or even days waiting for help. "Why would we say to a patient who's experiencing a mental health crisis to compete with patients who are there with gunshot wounds or cardiac arrest?" said Weeden. "We wouldn't and we shouldn't." According to Weeden, the goal is to address the urgent needs of a diverse population, where many community members are facing uncertainty in the wake of federal agents taking undocumented immigrants into custody. "They are hearing stories about their neighbors or their child's classmate who isn't showing up to school so that has significant impact on someone's mental health." "Obviously in the last months, there has been a lot of changes that has an impact on these communities," said clinical psychologist Nico Smiedniansky. "It's something that we can see on a day to day." Smiedniansky is one of the many clinicians who offer a range of services, including counseling, therapy and crisis intervention, all available on the same day. All the services are also available in Spanish. Demand for services up in immigrant communities "We have seen the demand has only gone up and up and up," said Smiedniansky. "And I think this is because we are presenting something that obviously is not offered somewhere else." The behavioral health urgent care is also attached to an emergency department, a pharmacy and a full suite of primary care services, including adult medicine and pediatrics. "This is really the environment where we say come in, we want you. You are ours, we accept you, we embrace you," said Weeden.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Yahoo
Suspect arrested in connection with shooting that left victim with life-threatening injuries
A person has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a victim with life-threatening injuries on Saturday night. Boston police say around 10:43 p.m., officers observed gunfire in the area of 3 Lewis Mall in East Boston. Upon arrival, officers located a victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was transported by Boston EMS to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. During the preliminary investigation, officers identified and arrested a suspect believed to be involved in the incident at the Maverick Square MBTA Station. While placing the suspect into custody and during transport, several officers were assaulted. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Boston Police Homicide Detectives responded to the scene and are actively investigating. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
