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Good Friday will no longer be a day off for students in Sharon, Massachusetts, starting next school year. Nor will two Jewish holy days. The school district scrapped Good Friday, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah (two days), and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving from the list of days off it provides students.
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The pink, blue, and white Transgender Flag is scheduled to be raised at Newburyport City Hall on Holy Saturday and to fly all Easter weekend. Newburyport Pride is organizing the flag raising, which the mayor of Newburyport, Sean Reardon, is scheduled to speak at, according to The Newburyport Daily News.
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If Massachusetts ends up getting an even bigger influx of migrants from Haiti, we may have Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to thank. That's because the Republican recently floated the idea of sending more migrants from Florida to Martha's Vineyard.
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A Democratic state Senate candidate in Massachusetts likes voting so much, that he has previously supported fining people who don't vote. In the past, state Representative Dylan Fernandes (D-Falmouth) has filed bills that would give you two options: vote in the November general election every two years or
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Federal immigration authorities arrested a 23-year-old Brazilian man wanted in his native country for failing to complete a 19-year prison sentence for armed robbery there, the agency said. The man, whom authorities did not name, had fraudulent identification documents when he was arrested Thursday, March 14 near his home in
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service
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U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) wants the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians to stop, and he wants Israel to help make it happen. The former U.S. Marine Corps officer issued a statement on Tuesday, March 19 slamming both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas, and he called
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When Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey leaves the state, she hasn't been transparent about where she's going or the reasons for why she's leaving. Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Amy Carnevale criticized Healey for this opaqueness, saying that she should follow in the footsteps of past