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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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Notre Dame des Canadiens, a breathtaking church built in 1929 that was once home to many of Worcester's French-Canadians, is being demolished this week. One Worcester resident told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette: "I feel bad for the people who built it."
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Lori Trahan is the winner of the Democratic primary for the Third Congressional District in the Merrimack Valley. The Elections Division of the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office made the announcement Monday afternoon, after a recount showed that she picked up some votes to add to her tiny
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According to the Daily Caller, CNN has yet to issue a single report about the accosting and attempted stabbing of a California Republican congressional candidate five days ago. As of Friday morning, a search of the CNN web site produced no mention of the incident. The Sunday, September 9 attack
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Civil authorities in Vermont are forming an investigative task force that will look into allegations of "physical, mental and sexual abuse and even murder" at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, according to the Associated Press.The orphanage closed in 1974. The report notes that Bishop Christopher
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia invites all Catholics to hold vigil for seven hours Friday night in an act of contrition, repentance, and to make "reparations." The vigil will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in the city. According to a flyer
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It might not be a perfect example of "giving back," but the gift bequeathed to Trinity College by alumnus Charles Guilford Woodward 120 years after his graduation from the Hartford school is at least a type of "paying it forward." Really forward. Woodward's gift
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Chelsea Clinton said Thursday her religious convictions led her to defend Roe v. Wade as consistent with Christianity. Answering a question about how she keeps herself from exhaustion in her fight to protect abortion rights, Clinton said:
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Columbia Gas Company of Massachusetts sought a rate hike totaling $44.5 million for safety measures this past spring but made do with $11 million less after the Massachusetts Attorney General's office got involved. Complying with state and federal safety regulations was causing a deficit in operating and