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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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A school committee member in Northampton is taking flak for the way he asked a question about math students of varying levels of understanding being put in the same classroom. Michael Stein, one 10 members of the city's elected school committee, asked a question about "differentiated instruction&
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A historical marker is coming to an empty meadow in western Massachusetts where Big League teams used to stop to play the local nine. Back before television-fueled astronomical salaries for professional athletes, managers of major-league teams used to schedule games with local teams, so big-leaguers could make extra money on
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The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill seeking to establish the third Saturday in July as Negro Election Day. About 1740, slaveowners in Massachusetts allowed slaves to have a festival day around the time of local elections in the colony, which occurred on the last Wednesday in May. It was
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Unvaccinated public school teachers in Boston will have to submit two negative coronavirus tests per week to keep working under an agreement the teachers union made with the city's mayor Wednesday night. The two negative tests are acceptable only "during periods of lower virus transmission."
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The city of Boston is on an island when it comes to its coronavirus vaccine passport requirement for entering various indoor businesses. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu acknowledged the situation and called it "a significant blow" that cities in the Boston area have not followed Boston's lead.
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A man wearing a pink mask entered the headquarters of the Massachusetts Republican Party in Woburn on Wednesday, called staff members "fascists," and threatened to "come back with a weapon," two eyewitnesses said. "When asked to leave," party spokesman Evan Lips said in a
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A businessman from Wrentham who describes himself as a moderate is running for governor of Massachusetts. Chris Doughty, 59, whose gear manufacturing business Capstan Atlantic employs more than 1,000 people, says he would increase economic growth in Massachusetts and help make the state more affordable.
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Forty percent of people who had decided or were close to deciding to visit Old North Church last year didn't know why it's famous, according to a survey of visitors the church took. Even The Boston Globe stumbled on that point in a feature about the