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‘Suck It Up, Buttercup’ – Take-No-Prisoners Approach of Holyoke Treasurer Has Underlings Out of Sorts

Matthew McDonald

Holyoke's city treasurer is so hard to deal with that she has sent a clerk in her office to a therapist, to her union, and to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

This past June treasurer Sandra Smith summoned the clerk to her office and asked if she intimidated her. Then, according to complainant Bridget Allen, the treasurer said this, according to MassLive.com:  "You can cry here about things that happen outside of work but you cannot cry because I'm being a bitch. Suck it up, buttercup, because this is how it is here. Deal with it."

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Lawrence High School Sex Tape Could Get Somebody In Trouble

Matthew McDonald

Lawrence police are trying to track down how a tape of two teen-age students engaging in consensual sex acts in a corridor at Lawrence High School got disseminated on the Internet.

Police believe the recording was made in August after an extracurricular event, according to the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune.

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