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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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Articles calling on voters to demand that the United States renounce first-strike nuclear attacks and that Massachusetts change its state seal are on the warrant of Town Meeting of a tiny town in western Massachusetts. Wendell, with a population of about 850, is about 32 miles north-by-northeast of Springfield.
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If you said "lots," that's not good enough. Officials at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife want a more accurate count, so they are asking residents to record turkey brood sightings.
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In early May, 19-year-old Michael Buskey talked to a roommate about killing himself. Police say the roommate, also 19, got a shotgun and shells from another roommate, accompanied Buskey into the woods near their apartment in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and helped Buskey do the deed.
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The superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police is going to engage an outside expert to help guide the troubled agency, Governor Charlie Baker said. Kerry Gilpin, the superintendent of the State Police, is "planning to bring in somebody who is pretty well known, I think, to people in Massachusetts,
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It's illegal for a performer to drink alcohol on stage in New Hampshire, where state law considers performers employees of the venue where they're performing and therefore unable to drink while on the job. But a bill sponsored by a state representative who's a
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Purveyors of abortion are disproportionately targeting babies who are African-American, African, females, and disabled — and yet few people speak about it. Father Roger Landry points out the numbers: Black women in America are five times more likely to have an abortion than white women; much of Western nations' aid
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Brookline Town Meeting has voted to change the name of Edward Devotion Elementary School because the namesake owned a slave. Edward Devotion (1667-1744) left the town of Brookline money in his will to start a school, which the town did in 1891, 147 years after he died.
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The central Massachusetts town of about 13,000 would host a 400,000-square-foot marijuana-growing facility on 94 acres that would eventually grow to 1.2 million square feet, according to a deal worked out between the town's Board of Selectmen and Valley Green Grow. Town officials tout the