WINCHENDON – The Beals Memorial Library is seeking poets to submit one original, unpublished poem for the seventh annual Beals Prize for Poetry competition. Ten poets will be selected by a panel of ...

Among the spending allocations in the $63.4 billion fiscal year 2027 state budget, legislators representing Franklin County and the North Quabbin region secured $1.28 million to support the work of ...

ATHOL, MA – James A. Canning II, 89, formerly of Twitchell Street, died Wednesday morning, July 8, 2026 at Gardner Rehabilitation and Healthcare. Born in Orange on June 16, 1937, he was the son of ...

State Sen. Paul Mark and state Rep. Susannah Whipps joined in the Massachusetts Commission on the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution’s effort to place a commemorative copy of the Declaration ...

Second-seeded Pioneer defeated No. 7 Athol, 23-21, in the Franklin Tech Girls Summer League playoffs on Thursday in Turners Falls. Maggie Tsipenyuk scored nine points, with Ariana Perkins chipping in ...

There is a version of this Senate primary that appears in the TV ads Seth Moulton’s campaign has run over the past few months, and there is the version Massachusetts actually saw on Wednesday, July 8.

SOUTH HADLEY — A study spot. A movie theater. A cozy lounge area. A tutoring center. A classroom. One room at Mount Holyoke College’s Ciruti Language Center encompassed it all. The Language and ...

WARE, MA – It is with profound sadness that the family of Brody Thomas Regienus announces his passing on May 19, 2026 at the age of 31. He was a beloved son, brother, grandson, uncle, cousin and ...

ORANGE, MA – Wayne Dominick Duda, 75, of Orange, Massachusetts, died Monday morning, June 15, 2026, at his home following a period of declining health. Wayne was born on April 14, 1951, in Brattleboro ...

BOSTON — Public higher education campuses around Massachusetts are on the verge of what boosters call the most significant capital investment in nearly two decades following the Senate’s passage of a ...

Camilo Badillo and Sylvia Abramson, children at the Early Learning Center on the Hampshire College campus, play with instruments on a structure overlooking the outdoor play space. Staff and parents ...

GREENFIELD — A Springfield man who claimed self-defense after he shot an Athol man in the thigh in Turners Falls in 2023 and then fled the scene was convicted this week on three firearms possession ...