The Winter 2026 girls basketball season tips off on Thursday, marking the start of a new chapter in Western Mass. girls basketball. The Pioneer Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference (PVIAC) made significant changes to the conference structure in WMass, with 38 girls basketball programs joining new...
MassLive released its girls basketball Super 7 for the 2025-2026 season on Dec. 10. Learn more about the landscape of girls basketball in Western Mass. by checking out the WMass Top 20 rankings and the conference realignment breakdown. Western Mass. Top 20 Preseason RankingSpringfield Central...
One of the last people to see Ana Walshe alive is expected to take the stand Wednesday morning in her husband’s murder trial.Gem Mutlu, who spent New Year’s Eve with Brian and Ana Walshe at their Cohasset home, is the next witness likely to be...
SUDBURY — You know the phrase, “a kid in a candy store?” Duck Soup does a public service in taking the age restriction off that feeling.The quirky general store in Sudbury is not just a candy shop. It’s a candy factory, gift shop, bakery, cheesemonger,...
A polarizing and politically provocative podcast host. A bankrupt and shuttered hospital. And a white-hot debate over immigration and who does, and does not, qualify as a “real” American.You don’t have to look far to find echoes of our own politics in “Showdown,” the 53rd...
After two weeks off, David Pastrnak’s shooting was a little rusty as the Bruins star hit the post on an open net.But his wisecrack game was still on point after Boston’s 5-2 win over the Blues in St. Louis.Asked how he handled playing with new...
The Patriots can clinch a playoff berth on Sunday. They can do it a very simple, direct, easy way or a very convoluted way.The simple way is to beat the Buffalo Bills at 1 p.m. at Gillette Stadium. That would clinch the AFC East title...
Dear Abby: I’ve been married to a narcissist for 28 years. He has gaslighted me for our entire 30 years together. He has had a “work wife” and a flirtation with the next-door neighbor hottie, and he paid for two sexy girls’ dinners (and pies...
Dear Eric: On Nov. 9, I answered a letter from someone who was trying to find a way to acknowledge her impending divorce in her Christmas cards, which would contain a photo of the letter writer and her kids, without the soon-to-be amicable ex. I...
