Massachusetts: Mayflower Marathon food drive finds new home at MGM Springfield

Massachusetts: Mayflower Marathon food drive finds new home at MGM Springfield

Article brief provided by masslive.com
  • Will Katcher, masslive.com
September 11, 2022 4:43 PM
  • Will Katcher, masslive.com

One of the largest annual food drives in New England has found its new home.

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The Mayflower Marathon will partner with the MGM Springfield casino this fall, aiming to continue feeding thousands of Western Massachusetts residents with a food and donation drive spread out over three days in November.

For the last month-and-a-half, the event’s 2022 location has been in doubt. In July, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame discontinued a nearly 30-year partnership with the food drive, saying it did not have the capacity to continue hosting the event.

The Mayflower Marathon is an annual 52-hour collaborative food and donation drive jointly run by Springfield’s Open Pantry Community Services Emergency Food Pantry and Rock 102 radio station.