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Chip Faulkner Funeral Service Thursday, May 30
A wake and funeral service are scheduled for Thursday for Chip Faulkner, longtime taxpayer advocate with Citizens for Limited Taxation. Faulkner, 73,…
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Massachusetts Adults Don’t Want 16-Year-Olds Voting, Poll Finds
About 65 percent of residents in Massachusetts oppose letting 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds vote in federal elections and only…
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Brown University Is On Occupied Territory and Is Part of the Problem, About-To-Be-Tattooed New Graduate Tells Fellow Graduates
Brown University's student protesters have done heroic things despite an administration that often isn't on board for constructive…
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Friendly’s Co-Founder Dies At 102
One of the two brothers who founded Friendly's Ice Cream in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1935 has died. Curtis Blake was…
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Lightning Sets Golf Course Tree Aglow
An apparent lightning strike set a tree at Clearview Country Club in Millbury on fire from within. The Millbury Fire Department posted…
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Someone Sprays Pepper-Like Irritant At Prom, Sending Three To Hospital
A high school prom in Connecticut ended not with a whimper but with a bang when someone sprayed an irritant into the…
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Biological Female Student Named Prom ‘King’ At Barnstable High School
A student who is a biological female but identifies as a male was named prom king at the senior prom of Barnstable…
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No Free College and We Can’t Conduct A Sit-In at the House Speaker’s Office?
Massachusetts public college students who threatened a sit-in at the Massachusetts House Speaker's office earlier this week are expressing…
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Maine Governor: Thou Shalt Vaccinate
Maine's Democratic governor, Janet Mills, has signed a bill that forces parents to have their children vaccinated even if they…
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URI Hosts Prom for LGBT+ High School Students
The Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Rhode Island hosted a Mermaid Prom for about a dozen other-than-heterosexual…
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Fired Lunch Lady’s Story Falling Apart
A former lunch lady who said she was fired for allowing a student to take $8 worth of food he couldn'…
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Vineyard Wind: Save the Whales … From Us
A company planning to build 84 turbines off the coast of Martha's Vineyard is asking experts to come up with…
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Boston City Councilor Wants City Contractors To Have To Regularize Work Schedules for Employees
A Boston city councilor wants companies doing business with the city to have to give advance notice of work schedules to their…
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Former New Boston Post Editor-in-Chief Joins Board of Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance
Founding New Boston Post editor-in-chief Jennifer Braceras has joined the board of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a tax and spending…
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Lunch Lady Fired For Allowing Kid To Take Food He Couldn’t Pay For Right Away
A high school lunch lady in New Hampshire was fired by the food services company she worked for after she let a…
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Pam Smart Denied Parole
A 51-year-old woman who manipulated a teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990 was denied a parole hearing Wednesday.…
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War on Plastic Bags Hits Granite Wall:New Hampshire Senate Kills Anti-Plastic Straws, Anti-Plastic Bags Bills
The New Hampshire Senate has rejected bills aimed at plastic straws and plastic bags. Democrats who control the chamber decided to abandon…
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Why A Pro-Abortion Rhode Island State Senator Killed An All-Nine-Months Abortion Bill
A Democratic state senator in Rhode Island who supports legal abortion provided the one-vote majority to kill a bill in committee…
