Dear Eric: My sister won’t come home for the holidays. She’s not estranged from me or our parents. But she moved across the country about 15 years ago, started a family, and seemingly never looked back. We’re not close but we’re not distant, if that...
Luka Garza earned backup center minutes out of training camp with the Celtics but that playing time had not gone well in the month of November entering Sunday night. Garza had shot just 1-of-10 from the field in his first four games of the month...
Before Sunday, the New England Patriots had just one touchdown from scrimmage longer than 50 yards and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hadn’t allowed any of that length.But on Sunday, the Patriots offense landed three game-changing home run touchdowns.The first was Kyle Williams’ 72-yard TD from...
Dear Abby: My mother is 80 and living alone after my dad passed. Her memory is failing. She recently fell and required shoulder surgery. This wasn’t her first fall; she has also broken her hip within the past four years. I installed a camera in...
Holyoke native Rafael Santos Jr. was selected as this month’s recipient for the National Life Group’s Do Good Heroes Recognition Program. The program aims to honor fire rescue and police personnel who go above and beyond in their respective fields. A former UMass football student-athlete...
AnnieMac Home Mortgage announces Prav Mathur, of West Springfield, has joined the company’s Western Massachusetts Momentum Group team as a loan officer, with a license to originate in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He is a 15-year member of the North American One-Armed Golf Association, where he...
Twenty-six Rotary Clubs in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut (Rotary District 7890) have joined to fund a project that will bring fresh drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygiene training to a needy Mayan community in Guatemala. Including matching funds from The Rotary Foundation and those...
(*A brief scheduling note: This newsletter will be taking a breather on Monday, Nov. 17. We’ll be back in action on Nov. 24.) Good Monday morning, everyone.In case you weren’t keeping track, it’s been a year since Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot question giving...
The Celtics absorbed the Magic’s initial punch Sunday as they were down by 12 points midway through the first quarter. Orlando found its rhythm early as the C’s needed to dig themselves out of another double-digit hole, just like Friday’s loss to the Magic.But this...
