Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often that a historical landmark literally vibrates with youthful energy. The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, built in 1903, functions today as a bustling social service agency meeting the community's needs via a food pantry, childcare center and afterschool program...
Girl X was like a lot of young kids in her neighborhood. Relatives say the nine-year-old liked to play, skate and tutor younger students. Her favorite subjects at school were math and English. And she would frequently go up and down the stairs to visit her grandmother, Zater Bolhar, who lived just a few floors away in the same apartment building. But Girl X's neighborhood is the partially vacant Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago's near North Side, and the child's current anonymity is an apt symbol for the forgotten lives--and forgotten crimes...
However, the story does not end there. Once the Coop receives the sourcebooks, it marks them up an additional 30 percent. This seems a little on the steep side, but we can't protest to our neighborhood Coop. The price mark-up is set by Barnes & Nobles, which bought the Coop and now, hand-in-hand with Starbucks, is well on its way to taking over the world. Somehow such a vast corporation seems too formidable to confront about my sourcebook price. So, placated by the copyright law, I let the sourcebook question rest...
Publicly funded, the school currently receives $7,293 per student, the equivalent that would have been spent on students in their neighborhood public schools...
Local children poured into the Bright Hockey Arena on Sunday to watch the annual performance by The Skating Club of Boston, a fundraising event sponsored by The Salvation Army and the Leverett Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program...