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A front-end loader works in front of a pile of road salt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Chelsea, Mass. Residents and officials in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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East Coast buttons up ahead of snow; Boston could get 2 feet
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Fri,01/28/22-5:37AM , 117 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Last-minute shoppers cleared grocery shelves and raided snowblower dealers Friday along the East Coast ahead of a storm that could drop 2 feet or more of fast-falling snow on some of the nation's biggest metro areas, including Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
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Mayor Sokhary Chau addresses the assembly during the Lowell City Council swearing-in ceremony, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Lowell, Mass., held at Lowell Memorial Auditorium due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chau, a refugee who survived the Khmer Rouge’s bloody regime, has become the city’s first mayor of color and the first Cambodian American mayor in the United States. (Julia Malakie/The Lowell Sun via AP)

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‘Our time now’: 1st Cambodian American mayor in US sworn in
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Tue,01/04/22-12:08AM , 155 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — He came to the U.S. as a young refugee, having survived Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule. Now, Sokhary Chau is the nation’s first Cambodian American mayor.
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Afghans seeking humanitarian relief anxious over long delays
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Thu,11/18/21-11:04PM , 173 Reads
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — More than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U.S. for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic U.S.
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Journalist Maria Ressa reflects on Nobel Peace Prize win
By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press
Tue,11/16/21-9:37PM , 174 Reads
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Maria Ressa says much still remains uncertain about her life in the month since she became the first ever Filipino and the first working journalist in more than 80 years to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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