The Spanish-speaking population has grown to the point where the city of Salem is using bilingual ballots for the first time this general election.
The city clerk told The Salem News that the city's Latino Leadership Coalition helped drive response among Spanish speakers in Salem to the U.S. Census in 2020, which led to the Census's finding of a large minority of Latinos.
As a part of its effort to address declining enrollment numbers, Greenfield Community College is considering dropping its gender and women's studies major.
Greenfield Community College is a public two-year community college in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a city in Franklin County about 34 miles north of Springfield. The school has 1,413 students enrolled in the fall 2022 semester, down from 2,583 students in the fall of 2010 — a drop of 45 percent during the past 12 years.
