After a slapshot from a boy injured one of her teammates, a captain of the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School field hockey team wrote a letter to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association calling for change.
In its 2-1 loss to Swampscott in the MIAA Division 3 Round of 32 matchup against Swampscott on Thursday, November 2, a girl on the Dighton-Rehoboth team got seriously hurt. Swampscott High senior captain and Northeastern Conference All-Star Sawyer Groothuis, a boy, drilled a girl in the face with a shot.
Democrats in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are planning to pass a $250 million increase for the state's emergency shelter system to house more migrants who have entered the country without official status.
The money would be part of a $2.74 billion supplemental budget bill for the state government.
