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Claiming of second treasure creates controversial twist for Project Skydrop
10-24-2024 12:54 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Although Boston meteorologist Dan Leonard beat out nearly 9,000 registered treasure hunters to locate a 24-karat gold statue valued at $26,725 in the Wendell State Forest, it was ultimately a dark-horse treasure hunter who cracked the code to the...

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LaunchSpace in Orange to screen documentary about prison education programs
06-05-2024 5:00 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE – To look at them and hear their origins, it doesn’t appear that ironworkers Ed Jordan and Jimmy Costello have much that would bond them.Jordan was raised by a loving family in a tough, Black neighborhood of Boston. Costello grew up in the...


Athol Salvation Army Corps joins Boston Marathon volunteers
04-15-2024 4:31 PM

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — Though they may not have been among the runners, the Salvation Army Athol Corps played an important role in the 128th Boston Marathon.The corps sent two vehicles — their mobile feeding unit, also known as a “canteen,” and a minivan — to help...


Athol man faces drug, gun charges
02-28-2024 1:05 PM

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — Two men from Athol and Needham and a woman from Weymouth were arrested Monday in Boston’s Downtown Crossing on several drug-related charges, according to police.At around 1 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 26, the Boston Police Department’s A-1 (Downtown)...


Lawmakers hear testimony on push to prohibit size discrimination
12-12-2023 4:03 PM

By STELLA TANNENBAUM

BOSTON — Massachusetts would become the second state in the nation to ban discrimination based on body size under a proposal aired at a recent hearing of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee.During a seven-hour hearing in which over 230 people...


Ware author gives talk on ‘The Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley’ at State House
12-07-2023 3:57 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — With hopes of providing important context for proposed legislation, a Ware author and historian was the featured speaker at the State Library Author Talks Series on Wednesday to discuss her book about three of the people who were forced to...


Pro-life group’s request prompts adoption of flag policies across Franklin County
12-05-2023 5:00 PM

By DOMENIC POLI and CHRIS LARABEE

Towns across Franklin County are starting to adopt flag policies after being approached by an anti-abortion group wanting to fly its banner on public grounds.The Pro Life Legal Defense Fund Inc. emailed towns and cities across the state late last...


House files provision to bring back repealed SNAP policy
11-14-2023 3:07 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — The House has added a provision to a spending bill that would reinstate a state policy repealed two decades ago to offer Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to immigrants in the country legally, but who are not...


Local educators push for state honor for armored mud balls
10-29-2023 4:00 PM

By JULIAN MENDOZA

BOSTON — Experts from Amherst College and Greenfield Community College advocated for Jurassic armored mud balls to become the state’s “official sedimentary structure” during a legislative hearing on Tuesday, with the deadline for written testimony...


Local group pushes psychedelic legislation as D.C. outfit aims for ballot
09-07-2023 11:32 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Advocates for decriminalizing psychedelic drugs are hoping to get traction on Beacon Hill and in Massachusetts cities and towns this year, though they are taking different approaches to changing the law.Grassroots coalition Bay Staters for...


Massachusetts lawmakers hear pleas for location shield law
06-30-2023 7:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Anyone with a cellphone in their pocket can likely be tracked — to the grocery store or the gym, to work or school, to religious services or health care appointments. With prolific data available on Bay Staters’ day-to-day lives, a bill seeks...


Greenfield residents, senator advocate for home equity bill
05-11-2023 4:47 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — At least three Greenfield residents and the state senator representing 25 communities in Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester counties have submitted testimony to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to express support for a bill that would...


Healey: tax relief remains “absolutely essential”
05-08-2023 4:43 PM

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey doubled down on her tax relief plan on Friday, insisting that a shortfall in state revenue that has plunged this year’s state budget into the red was predicted and accounted for in her fiscal 2024 budget.“We put together our...


Unique nets used in city projects
05-07-2023 5:02 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE – Drive past 60 Guest St. in Boston and you might see construction crews working on a nine-story, 350,000-square-foot life science building coming with a $500 million price tag. And the North Quabbin region will leave its fingerprints on the...


Tax relief plan may precede budget rollout
04-28-2023 5:15 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

The Massachusetts Senate plans to unveil its fiscal 2024 budget proposal soon, but it remains unclear when the branch will tackle a tax reform package.The Senate will share an annual budget plan later this month, a spokesman for Senate Ways and Means...


Bill would compensate towns harmed by creation of Quabbin Reservoir
04-27-2023 4:57 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

BOSTON — Four towns were disincorporated and dismantled, and another eight had land stripped from them, to create the Quabbin Reservoir in the first half of the 20th century.People were forced to find new homes and the valley was flooded with water,...


Priced out, activists appeal for urgency on housing
03-17-2023 3:36 PM

CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Bishnu Tamang’s home in Massachusetts has always been infested with cockroaches.After immigrating years earlier from Nepal, Tamang moved to a public housing apartment in Brookline in 2015 with her four-year-old son, where she found not only...

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