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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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The owner of a bowling alley in Tewksbury fulfilled a longtime dream by dropping a 1,207-pound pumpkin from a crane 100 feet high onto the parking lot at his business Sunday. The pumpkin, which was a recent (and late) competitor at the Topsfield Fair in October, fell to the
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The mayor of the western Massachusetts city of Northampton plans to be the first person in the state to buy marijuana legally from a recreational marijuana shop on Tuesday morning. He'll have some competition, as another store in the state, in the central Massachusetts town of Leicester, also
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Gun violence and the closing of two public schools are being combined into one protest by students in Boston's public schools, who are planning to walk out of school Monday afternoon and later hold a "die-in" at City Hall. Organizers say they "will lay in
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A recount in the city of Waterville, Maine shows that a proposed ban on thin-film plastic bags at retail stores failed by seven votes, flipping the initial finding that it had passed. But 164 votes from Colby College students that have been challenged and therefore not counted could re-flip the
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Suffolk Downs, a former racetrack on the Revere-East Boston line, was one possible landing place for Amazon's second headquarters, but lost out earlier this week to Arlington, Virginia and the Queens borough of New York City. But Revere's mayor says city officials aren't fazed
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Barbara Gouin, who has waited tables at Angie's Food & Diner in Newburyport for 25 years, is retiring after this weekend. The 82-year-old has a following.
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Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in New England and known for extreme weather, never got higher than -4 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, November 14. It's the second earliest sub-zero day in the mountain's history since 1948, according to the National Weather Service.
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Seven female students are asking a federal court to award them $70 million from Dartmouth College for harassment and unwanted sexual aggression from three psychology professors that they say the college did nothing to stop. The students describe inappropriate banter, pressure to binge drink, sexual touching, and coerced sexual activity