Culture

Emergency managers from four coastal towns staged a joint drill simulating a Category 2 storm surge that overtopped seawalls and cut primary evacuation highways. Responders practiced reverse-lane traffic, shelter registration, and multilingual alert pushes to phones in low-lying neighborhoods. Observers noted improved handoffs between fire, police, and volunteer boat rescuers compared with last year’s exercise….

A downtown museum opened an exhibit on local labor history, tracing union organizing, factory closures, and service-sector growth through artifacts and oral histories. Curators interviewed retired machinists, nurses, and warehouse workers whose recordings play alongside photographs of strikes and solidarity campaigns. Interactive maps show how industrial corridors shifted to logistics parks, highlighting wage changes adjusted…