In a successful effort to increase community college enrollment, the state offered free tuition to students over 25 last year. Now, the commonwealth hopes to continue that positive trend by providing universal free community college.But how will this impact four-year universities and colleges?...
After an offseason of upheaval in Foxborough, football is finally back.The Patriots will return to the backfields at Gillette Stadium to open training camp on Wednesday morning, and while all eyes will be on the quarterbacks, there are plenty of other storylines to monitor over...
Pottery studios across the Hilltowns will be opening their doors and firing up their kilns this weekend for the annual Hilltown Pottery Tour.The self-guided tour is two days long — July 27 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days — and offers...
Peaceful and pleasurable.Those are the two words Michelle Jones Galvin used to describe the inn where she stayed while finishing her book about her great-great-great-grand-aunt abolitionist Harriet Tubman.For a little over a decade, Galvin and her family spent their summer vacations at The Inn at...
SPRINGFIELD — A shopkeeper who spent more than a decade behind bars before a jury acquitted him has filed a lawsuit saying police officers working the case pressured witnesses to make false statements that led to his incarceration.“In December 2010, Mr. Hernandez was convicted of...
Dear Abby: My 25-year-old son lives with his two girlfriends, who are also romantically involved with each other. They share a single bedroom. One of them has a baby due this week, and the other has made noises about wanting a child. I don’t approve...
Upcoming programs at Berkshire Botanical GardenSTOCKBRIDGE – Berkshire Botanical Garden presents the following upcoming programs. Music Mondays: July 29, Brother Sal Blues Band. Performances run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Food trucks will be available at selected performances. Cost is $15 members, $20 nonmembers; Wednesday,...
WESTFIELD — City Clerk Kaitlyn Bruce said her Westfield office has received the ballots for the Sept. 3 state primary election, and staff will be hand-delivering them to the post office this week for people who have requested to vote by mail.The state primary election...
Dear Eric: My husband is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. His father died and he placed a headstone at his burial site. His mother died and the funeral home’s price was very high, so he did not buy a headstone for her...
Dear Annie: I am so jealous of my mother; it is ruining my life. It is all I obsess about. Three years ago, she met a younger man at a supermarket where she worked. He was 40 then, and she was 52. Three years later...