New England Weekend

Jan Turnquist, the executive director of Orchard House in Concord, talks about their efforts to remember Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women", as excitement grows for the new movie. Rodney Rowland of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH has details about the museum's Candlelight Stroll, taking you back in time to holidays past. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

Suzanne Maas, the Interim Executive Director and President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, has details on this month's Festival of Trees in Wellesley, and how critical this fundraiser is to the group. Robb Osinski and Betty Gower of Bambu Global, based in Lowell, talk about groundbreaking technology that allows people to "turn off" their tattoos, and how they plan to help people with c...

Sean O'Brien, the President of Teamsters Local 25, talks about their annual Christmas toy drive, and other charitable work union members are taking part in. Adam Vaccaro, transportation reporter for the Boston Globe, talks about the "Seeing Red" Spotlight investigation, and the state of transportation in Massachusetts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill Hanney, owner and producer of the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, comes on the show to talk about the return of a holiday classic. Concord's getting ready for a huge cheese parade, and Concord Cheese Shop owner Peter Lovis has all the details. Dr. Jillian Frank, a psychologist from Brookline, details her project that brings new life to American Girl dolls and gets them to foster childre...

Dar Heikkinen, the Director of Outreach for the Clay Soper Memorial Fund in Winchester, talks about "If They Had Known", a documentary created to remember a life taken too soon and prevent more teen deaths from the mixture of alcohol and prescription drugs. Kara Elliott Ortega, Boston's Chief of Arts and Culture, talks about the city's search for its first ever Teen Poet Laureate. Julia Driscoll a...

Mélida Arredondo, co-founder of the Arredondo Family Foundation, joins Herb Chambers Companies CEO Alan McLaren in the studio to talk about their annual turkey drive to benefit low-income veterans, families of the fallen, military families, and active duty members. Jason McCuish, a teacher at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute, and his student, Erick Hernandez, have details on their leadership gr...

Jasmine Grace, founder and director of Bags of Hope Ministries, comes on the show to tell her incredible story. Grace was trafficked for years, and was able to escape her abuser, only to fall victim to a drug habit. She details her path to sobriety, and how she's now able to pay it forward to help other women through her non-profit. This is the complete interview; an abridged version ran on broadc...

Lynn Margherio, the CEO and Founder of Cradles To Crayons, talks with Nichole about clothing insecurity, how it affects low income families, and what we can do to help kids stay warm this winter here in Massachusetts. CherylAnn Gengel, the co-founder of Be Like Brit in Worcester, explains how her group is trying to assist their orphanage in Haiti from afar as political unrest continues. Ellen LeBo...

Nichole speaks with Abby Kelly, the owner of Gluten Free New England, about living with food allergies and her directory of gluten-free-friendly establishments in New England. Lyndia Downie of Pine Street Inn joins the show to talk about their 50th anniversary fundraising drive to create more stable housing for Boston’s homeless. Liz Vizza, the Executive Director of the Friends of the Public Garde...

Nichole talks with New Bedford's Superintendent of Schools, Thomas Anderson, about new family engagement centers in the city's schools. Kay Herlihy from the Greater Haverhill League of Women Voters talks about her city's part in the suffragette movement and previews the weekend's Suffragette Parade. Darrin Korte and David Lightfoot Bellow from Cambridge's The Hip Hop Transformation tell us how the...

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's "New England Weekend" debuts! Nichole speaks with Marty Martinez, Boston's Chief of Health and Human Services, about the city's "Mass and Cass 2.0" plan. She also talks to this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Dr. William Kaelin of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor Nikolay Anguelov at UMass Dartmouth about "fast fashion" and learn...