by David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2025 This has been a year of notable accomplishments for BSCB. Our Board and committees have been hard at work addressing priority issues of benefit to our members and the Commonwealth’s blind and low vision community. Below are some of the highlights of our work over the … Read more
by David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2024 This has been a year of notable accomplishments for BSCB. Our Board and committees have been hard at work addressing priority issues of benefit to our members and the Commonwealth’s blind and low vision community. While preparing this article, I reread the BayLines Express article I … Read more
by David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2023 2023 has been a year of notable accomplishments for BSCB, as well as for the Massachusetts blindness community as a whole. I said it at our Spring Convention and I will say it here again: BSCB was the only organization in the Massachusetts blindness community to … Read more
By DeAnn Elliott During the Bay State Council of the Blind’s annual convention held May 20th, the organization presented its 2023 Community Access Award to Joseph Kolb, an orientation and mobility (O and M) specialist at the Carroll Center for the Blind. Many BSCB members are among the more than 1000 clients who have benefitted … Read more
By David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, December, 2022 As this year draws to a close, we can be proud of several big successes. The Votes Act, which was signed by the Governor in July, introduced fully accessible online voting statewide. This effort built on BSCB efforts undertaken in collaboration with the Disability Law Center … Read more
By Brian Charlson, President, Bay State Council of the Blind | From BayLines Express, December, 2020 2020, a year that should have been all about literal vision, became a year filled with everything but that. Racial inequality, economic imbalance, health care shortcomings and frightening trends in our weather have all taken front stage, leaving very … Read more
Bay State Council of the Blind 57 Grandview Avenue Watertown, MA 02472 Phone: 773-572-6312 www.acbofma.org President: Brian Charlson 617-926-9198 president@acbofma.org Editor: Bob Hachey 781-893-6251 bhachey@verizon.net Assistant Editors: Dianna Leonard, Steve Dresser, Jerry Berrier, and Judy Savageau BayLines is published three times per year in large print, via e-mail, and on the Web. … Read more
February 25, 2016 From the Editor Welcome to BayLines Express, the brand new monthly news digest of the Bay State Council of the Blind (BSCB). This is our inaugural issue. BayLines Express is intended to get news to you about recent and upcoming events of interest to BSCB members. It will be coming out on … Read more
