Hundreds of students from Nantucket crossed the stage Friday, wearing caps and gowns to celebrate their graduation. But, before Nantucket High School seniors received their diplomas, one student, who the town deprived of an education, finally got her own.Eunice Ross, an African American teenager who...
Independence Day firework displays are once again taking over the night sky around the holiday.Across Massachusetts, dozens of communities from will be celebrating firework shows of their own for the Fourth of July.See below for a list of individual city and town firework events planned...
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory at 3:41 a.m. on Monday valid from Tuesday noon until Thursday 8 p.m. for Berkshire County.The weather service says, "Heat index values up to 99 degrees expected.""Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses," adds the...
Dear Abby: I have a 4-year-old daughter. She spends time at her grandma’s house and does arts and crafts projects there. When my MIL drops her off, she brings the project to our house. We enjoy seeing it for a few days, and my daughter...
Youth Grief Support ProgramWILBRAHAM – Rick’s Place provides free, peer grief support groups for youth (ages 5-18) and their caregivers. Rick’s Place offers young people and their families a place to remember their loved ones and to avoid the sense of isolation that such losses...
On Monday at 2:19 a.m. the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory valid from Tuesday noon until Friday 7 p.m. for Northern Worcester and Southern Worcester as well as Franklin, Essex, Hampshire, Hampden, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth and Middlesex counties.The weather service describes, "Heat...
WESTFIELD — Tenth grade students in Nicole Hamel’s AP History class at Westfield High School teamed up with residents of Armbrook Village this spring for a “Past Meets Present” living history project.Thirteen students were paired with 12 residents at the senior living facility, meeting first...
Dear Readers: The following Q&A first ran in 2019.Dear Amy: My daughter has my husband’s extremely pale, Nordic appearance. In high school she had some darker-skinned friends of other races. Sometimes they would poke gentle fun at her for her whiteness, such as telling her...
“Unreconciled,” Jay Sefton’s tour-de-force play about a young theater student (Jay Sefton) who is the victim of abuse by a priest, and yet moves on to be a therapist and an actor, has its world premiere at Chester Theatre, July 4-14, after a workshop last...
Dear Annie: Not quite 20 years ago, I worked for a local authority mental health agency with about 650 employees. I worked in the human resources department and knew all the employees by name because I literally had access to everything about them. I made...
