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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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On their first day in the majority Democrats in the New Hampshire House of Representatives banned guns from the chamber in the state capital in Concord, including the anteroom and public gallery. The New Hampshire House voted 220-163 on Wednesday, January 2 to ban guns, with only one Republican in
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School officials in Framingham rejected a bid to replace Columbus Day on the school calendar with "Indigenous Peoples Day," but added indigenous peoples to the commemoration. The Framingham School Committee voted 5-4 Wednesday night to approve the change, with the majority seizing on a compromise offered by the
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A 75-year-old former marijuana and cocaine smuggler who did decades in jail returned this week to the South Shore town he grew up in to film a documentary about his life. George Jung got a warm welcome from former neighbors and from fans of a book and movie made about
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Jasiel Correia II may become the second mayor of Fall River recalled during the last five years if voters toss him out later this winter. The Fall River City Council has set March 12 as the date of a recall election, according to the Fall River Herald News.
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Gloucester police plan to arrest a man in his mid-20s who was running a high-volume recreational marijuana business out of his home without a license and without plans to fork over tax revenue to the government. Police performing a well-being check for another person who lives at 268 Western Avenue
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U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin of Maine announced Monday, December 24 that he is ending his federal court challenge to the state's ranked-choice voting system that cost him his seat. Poliquin announced his decision to stop his lawsuit "in the best interest of my constituents and all
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Two biological men who identify as women plan to join the New Hampshire House of Representatives in January 2019 — and they'll make up half of the openly transgender state legislators in the nation. State representative-elect Gerri Cannon (D-Somersworth) plans to file a bill that would allow transgender people
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As they have since their church closed in 2011, parishioners of Mater Dolorosa in Holyoke gathered outside the church for a Christmas Eve service on Monday. Only this time, they were standing beside the rubble of its demolished ruins.