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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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Massachusetts state officials are accepting feedback about how the Healey administration should best spend some of an expected $50 million to provide electric vehicle charging stations to try to persuade people to give up gasoline-powered cars. The money comes from the federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act of
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The Mayflower II is expected to make a voyage from Mystic Seaport Museum on the south coast of Connecticut to Plymouth, Massachusetts this coming week. The wooden sailing ship, launched in 1956, is a replica of the ship that took the Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620.
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Cambridge police would disclose the name of a police officer who shoots someone within two days of the incident as long as it wouldn't impede an investigation or threaten the officer's safety, if the department adopts a recommendation by an outside consultant. "We actually have
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Falmouth town manager Michael Renshaw has announced that the police department's surplus of 26 shotguns will be destroyed rather than used as trade-ins for future guns. Renshaw made the announcement during a selectmen's meeting Monday, April 1. The shotguns have a trade-in value of $4,125,
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Former New Jersey governor, former Republican presidential candidate, and former Trump supporter Chris Christie is the scheduled commencement speaker at Endicott College next month. "With examples like leading the people of New Jersey through the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, Governor Christie is known for putting people before politics and
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Two Springfield men were arrested after police say they tried to carjack an unmarked police cruiser being driven by a plainclothes detective. The detective, whom police didn't name, was investigating in the area of Reed Street in Springfield at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, March 29 when
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Not many people in public life in Massachusetts can claim a single accomplishment that has made life better around here. Larry Lucchino can.
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More than 50 students at Smith College occupying an administration building are demanding that the school divest from weapons manufacturers supplying Israel and that the students get immunity from discipline for occupying the building. The occupation of the building began Wednesday, March 27, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. It