By Lifestyle Staff Happy end of July! The seventh month of the year is a peculiar month. At first, it seems like summer will stretch on indefinitely, and, this year, immersing yourself in the excitement of the Paris Olympics. But as soon as the Fourth...
During the ongoing murder trial of Christine Ricci, a Marshfield woman charged in the killing of her Boston firefighter husband Michael Ricci, her daughter shared with prosecutors what she remembered from the day her father died.On a wintry January afternoon in 2021, Sophiya Ricci came...
In the summer of 2022, Jordan Obernesser was excited to start training for his high school soccer team. After developing a love for the sport through club soccer, he had big plans for his freshman year.But an ache in his right knee would become a...
It may be too late to execute a plan for National Night Out on Tuesday, August 6, but if your agency is participating, make it big. If your agency isn’t participating, you can still commit to community outreach.Police agencies and individual officers need to be...
A heat advisory was issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 3:04 a.m. valid from noon until Friday 7 p.m. for Southern Worcester as well as Middlesex, Essex, Hampden, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bristol and Plymouth counties.The weather service adds, "Heat index values up to...
By Stephen Owsinski With the rampancy of retail theft burgeoning due to ludicrous legislative acts essentially making it a free shopping (shoplifting) excursion, many businesses locked the door for the final time…a sign they felt hampered and defenseless against marauding kleptomaniacs. Despite this, law enforcement agencies and...
Dear Abby: Fifteen years into our marriage, I’m struggling to honor my wife’s desire for space and independence. I can be a hopeless romantic, and my attempts to communicate my desire for trustworthy and healthy boundaries have actually made it worse. We had a romantic...
Thrift shopSpringfield - The thrift shop at St. Gregory Armenian Church, 135 Goodwin St., in the Indian Orchard section, is open Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, go online to saintgregoryarmenianchurch.org.Church eventsSunderland – First Congregational Church of Sunderland, 91 S. Main...
Dear Eric: My daughter visited my son and daughter-in-law in anticipation of the arrival of their baby daughter. The nursery was decorated with wallpaper that had roses as a motif. My daughter loved the design.A year later, my daughter gave birth to her daughter, named...
Dear Annie: I am a single mother of two teenage girls. After a series of abusive relationships, I hadn’t dated for two years until recently. A few months ago, I met a man, and we’ve been seeing each other and sharing intimate moments. But the...