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  ❤️ Donate Thursday, August 6, 2026 ☀️ Sunny and humid, with a high near 91. Good Morning Boston, A heat advisory is in effect today through Friday for almost all of Massachusetts . According to the National Weather Service, the temperature and high humidity will bring the heat index close to 100 at certain times. Remember these tips to stay cool. Now, in related news: Channeling climate change: The Boston Children's Museum is beginning work this month on a $15 million plan to protect itself from the floods and sea level rise associated with climate change . Located on the banks of the Fort Point Channel, the museum is one of Boston's most flood-exposed institutions — something leaders learned firsthand during a nasty winter storm in 2018 . "We actually started getting water in the museum," Carole Charnow, the museum's CEO, told WBUR's Dan Guzman. "And this was of grave concern to us because we know that storms are getting more frequent [and] becoming ...

Locally grown food and cyclospora dangers | Letters to The Republican Published: Aug. 05, 2026 By The Republican Staff By now, you’ve certainly heard about the cyclospora outbreak that has affected over 10,000 people across the country. The scope and scale of this outbreak is a symptom of our massive, global, centralized food system. Here’s how it happens: crops are grown on vast farms, and then they are washed and packaged in immense processing facilities where they commingle with crops from many other farms. Then they’re shipped from coast to coast. Wherever the point of contamination happens – whether it’s in the field or in the processing facility – the scale of these systems means that an outbreak can affect thousands of people nationwide. Are local farms immune to food safety concerns? Absolutely not. We may someday see a food safety outbreak tied back to a Massachusetts farm, and that is why local farmers take the matter seriously and why we at CISA provide food safety training...