For nearly eight decades, London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been home to The Royal Ballet.Next month, this world-renowned ballet company will trade the glittering gold and red velvet-lined walls of its iconic London theater for a week in the woods of Western...
By John DoneganThe Bakersfield CalifornianKERN COUNTY, Calif. — Facilities of the 911 emergency system are being drowned in a flood of trivial calls, officials said at a news conference Monday.Held at Kern County Public Health’s Mt. Vernon Avenue headquarters in Bakersfield, leaders from the 911...
The consensus was that the Bruins gambled. But the experts liked the bold move.The Bruins picked Dean Letourneau, a 6-foot-7 Canadian center who spent 2023-24 in prep school, in the first round of the NHL Draft on Friday with the 25th overall pick that they...
A Massachusetts woman won a $5 million grand lottery prize and said she’s going to buy a car — but has a special dealership in mind.Kathy Burgess, of Lanesborough, won $5 million in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$5,000,000 100X Cashword” scratch ticket game. The game...
The visionary behind MassLive’s Pride Logo resides in MassLive’s backyard. Back in April, MassLive looked for artists from the Greater Springfield Area with a passion for logo design and the the annual June Springfield Pride Parade.For the past two years, MassLive has marched in the...
The full rosters won’t be announced until later, but at least two Bruins will be participating in the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off in February.The 4 Nations Face-Off will feature Olympic-caliber rosters from the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland. Boston captain Brad Marchand will be...
If there’s one thing Massachusetts native and “The Circle” season five star Xanthi Perdikomatis will be remembered for after starring in season two of Netflix dating show “Perfect Match,” it will be her obvious dissatisfaction with the potential romantic partners the show’s producers assembled for...
Bruins first-round draft pick Dean Letourneau had his heart set on playing in Boston.Not in the pros necessarily. He was smart enough to realize that was obviously out of his control heading into Friday’s draft. But when the Ontario native, who played at St. Andrews...
SPRINGFIELD — When Jose Cuevas was a young man living in Guavate, Puerto Rico, he worked in a restaurant and fell in love with the business, an experience he credits with inspiring a lifelong dream of owning his own restaurant. More than a decade after...
WESTFIELD — On June 22, two Civil War veterans’ headstones were dedicated in a ceremony conducted at Westfield’s Pine Hill Cemetery by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and attended by the descendents of one of the interred soldiers.Westfield Veterans Graves Officer...
