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About 30 environmental protesters held a "die-in" near a power plant under construction in Peabody earlier this week, claiming that the plant will cause asthma, heat stroke, hurricanes, explosions, and lung diseases leading to death. Some protesters lay on the sidewalk of the Danversport Bridge in Danvers on
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A proposal to lengthen the school day by a half-hour isn't going over well with some Billerica parents. A new teachers union contract with the Billerica public schools calls for lengthening the work day from six and a half hours to seven hours. That would also allow the
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New Hampshire's Republican governor is taking the Republican in his state's U.S. Senate race. Chris Sununu endorsed U.S. Army veteran Don Bolduc in his race against incumbent U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire).
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There is one less Bertucci's in Massachusetts now. The Woburn location of the casual Italian restaurant chain on Commerce Way shut its doors on Thursday, September 22.
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Prison inmates take the motors out of electric typewriters and electric pencil sharpeners to help make tattoos, an inmate told a Massachusetts court. John J. Sullivan made the statement while contesting his firing as a law clerk in the prison library at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, where he is serving
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A Somerville city councilor is calling for city officials to study the feasibility of requiring criminal background checks and sex offender checks for people who staff pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, if any ever come to Somerville. Kristen Strezo, a member of the city council, brought up the idea during a
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By Casey Harper The Center Square
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