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A jury has awarded nearly $96,000 in damages to a northwest Indiana girl who was injured in 2018 while playing in a bounce house at a local YMCA.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools shut down, in-person learning wasn’t the only thing children were missing out on. Many families in Massachusetts and across the nation relied on school breakfasts and lunches to keep their kids from going hungry. “The pandemic occurred abruptly, we had to pivot abruptly into numerous different feeding systems based on USDA waivers,”...

For many children, lunch at school is not a luxury, but a need, so during the pandemic, the YMCA of Central Massachusetts stepped up to help.

A line went down and around the block by the YMCA in Worcester, which is providing equity vaccines to residents.

Massachusetts has given out a supply of “equity vaccines” to 20 cities across the state in an effort to reach populations who have otherwise had barriers to getting protection from the coronavirus. In Worcester, a line began forming before 6 a.m. on Saturday at the YMCA, which from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. will administer single-dose Johnson & Johnson shots….

In Worcester, an effort is underway to help get vaccines to underserved communities.

The Hyde Park YMCA has remained open during the pandemic, providing a place for students to conduct their virtual learning while schools are closed.

The YMCA in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood has become a crucial gathering place for kids and adults.

The Hyde Park YMCA has remained open during the pandemic, providing a place for students to conduct their virtual learning while schools are closed.

Among the billions of dollars in recent donations made by MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is the largest contribution in the history of the YMCA of Greater Boston. Scott, an author and philanthropist, said this week that she had given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of…

YMCA’s Chief Operating Officer Paul McEntire offers summer camp advice for parents worried about coronavirus, including being in active communication with the camp and doing the research.

Summer camps in New Hampshire will soon begin welcoming kids back for the season, a week after the state’s stay-at-home order expires. Gov. Chris Sununu announced Thursday he plans to let the current stay-at-home order expire on June 15 and transition to a “safer at home advisory.” The move means several sectors of the economy can reopen and the cap…

A week after New Hampshire’s stay-at-home order expires, summer camps in the Granite State will be welcoming kids back for the season.

More than 60 people were forced out of a building on Huntington Avenue and one person is in the hospital with burn injuries after a fire broke out in a Boston YMCA.

A fire on the seventh floor of the YMCA of Greater Boston seriously injured a woman and forced 60 residents of the Huntington House shelter out of their apartments. Despite that early morning fire, the YMCA continued with its efforts to help people during the pandemic by handing out meals to those who need them. “It’s a very tough time…

Patriots quarterback Jarrett Stidham and his wife, Kennedy, made a positive impression Friday with a generous donation in a local community.