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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 90-year-old love letters came out in two stacks while a contractor was working on a house in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. They detail a nine-year courtship that led to a 40-year marriage with children and grandchildren.
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The union that represents patrolmen in Portsmouth, New Hampshire has filed a grievance with a state board against the city's police department, saying that members are being forced to issue traffic tickets to meet a quota. But the chief of police said there's no quota, and
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Fraudsters are falsely claiming to represent the unidentified Merrimack, New Hampshire woman who won $560 million in the Powerball lottery in January and then won the ability to keep her name secret. The scammers are calling, emailing, and texting people trying to get them to reveal sensitive banking information by
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Twelve current professors and one retired professor have published a letter supporting the Providence College senior who posted materials saying marriage is only between a man and a woman. Michael Smalanskas, a resident assistant at a male freshmen dorm on campus, posted the materials March 1 on a bulletin board
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The average salary for a full professor at Yale University is $209,500 a year in 2016-2017 — but that's significantly lower than what full professors make at what Yale considers peer institutions. The average salary for a full professor at Harvard that year was $227,000, according to
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A developer is seeking to demolish an oceanfront mansion in Swampscott that President Calvin Coolidge once used as his summer White House. The town's Historical Commission can delay demolition for up to nine months under a town bylaw that allows the town to try to find a way
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Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza initially supported a ban of single-use plastic bags used in supermarkets and stores, but he vetoed a measure approved by the city council after the city's Racial and Environmental Justice Committee expressed concerns that it would hurt poor people. The ordinance would ban single-use
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A hundred-dollar license application fee, a $100 certified safety course, a $100 firearms identification card, fingerprints, background check, approval by local police chief, and a shooting accuracy test if you're a resident of Boston — plus a wait of up to 40 days — and presto!, you may get a