WESTFIELD — More than three dozen businesses and nonprofits have signed up to participate in Westfield’s annual downtown trick-or-treat, sponsored by the mayor’s office and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield.Costumed children and their families are welcome to trick-or-treat tonight, starting at 4...
HOLYOKE – A veteran dies in one of every eight suicides statewide but there are ways those who served in the military can and should get help.When it comes to veterans dying by suicide, the problem is clear. Why available help doesn’t reach them in...
With the election looming and recent revelations about Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller having lost their lives under the Georgia abortion ban, it is tempting to stick to the partisan political scripts when pregnant women become emergent. According to liberals, conservative legislators cannot write...
When voters go to the polls, it takes just a few minutes to fill out a ballot, feed it into the tabulator and get the all-important “I voted” sticker before leaving.But for poll workers and election officials, Election Day lasts far longer than 7 a.m....
Ben Dyer was shot five times during Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, when a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar.A year later, Dyer and fiancée Keela Smith want to turn the worst day of their lives into the best.As Lewiston prepares...
Nearly a dozen employees working at the MBTA’s Cabot Yard maintenance facility are on administrative leave during an investigation into accusations that they worked on private vehicles during work hours, according to multiple reports. MBTA General Manager Philip Eng told The Boston Globe, “it appears...
A Hanover man who worked as a captain in the Boston Police Department was sentenced to federal prison on Thursday for his role in a long-running overtime fraud scheme at the department‘s evidence warehouse, acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua S. Levy’s office announced. Richard...
A fire that damaged St. Mary‘s Catholic Church in Franklin on Wednesday evening is believed to have been arson and now state officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information.First responders went to the church around 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday and quickly knocked down the...
There wasn’t a lot to worry about for Joe Mazzulla heading into Thursday’s road tilt against the Wizards. Boston had blown out Washington in their last two visits to DC last year and the Wizards are in the hunt for Cooper Flagg this season with...
The first match of the week for the Premier League sees a couple of clubs that have been trending upward recently taking the pitch as Nottingham Forest takes on Leicester City at King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.The match is scheduled to start at 3...
