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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 mayor of Attleboro, Massachusetts is reveling in his city's location on the Rhode Island border, hoping that people in Rhode Island will come to Attleboro to buy marijuana when pot shops become legal in Massachusetts this summer. Paul Heroux, a Democrat and a former state representative who
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The flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts looked into 87 allegations of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct between January 1, 2013 and December 13, 2017. Some led to discipline and some were resolved in other ways, including an employee leaving the university.
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A 200-year-old white ash tree was taken down in Scituate, Rhode Island. One of relatively few tall trees to survive the Hurricane of 1938, the tree at the time of its felling was 110 feet tall and 17 feet around the base. It took four hours for a tree service
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Diversity and inclusion don't seem to have been as important to trustees of the University of New Hampshire when it came to picking a new president as ability to raise cold, hard cash, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official said. UNH announced this week
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Al Switzer started coaching swimming and diving 62 years ago. He started coaching the women's team at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire 27 years ago.
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A 32-year-old woman whom police in Manchester, New Hampshire say they found in a car with a needle in her arm took off, police said. She was later arrested in a supermarket in Merrimack, a town south of Manchester, according to The Union Leader.
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The Kennedys' greatest achievement is using people and getting them to ask for more. That skill is on display throughout the new movie Chappaquiddick, which opens nationwide tonight. True to life, a small army of helpers appears whenever Ted Kennedy needs them, all looking to protect him as if
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The state commission that is supposed to evaluate applications for licenses to run marijuana businesses may approve expedited licenses as early as next week. It's the beginning of the end of no-recreational-marijuana-selling in Massachusetts.