MassLive will release updated Bay State Conference boys lacrosse rankings every week during the regular season.Walpole (9-1, No. 1) Needham (6-6, No. 2)Newton North (6-4, No. 4) Wellesley (5-4, No. 3) Natick (7-3, No. 5) Milton (4-5, No. 6) Framingham (3-5, No. 7)Braintree (2-6, No....
SOUTHWICK — Six months after the town’s chief executive officer implored the Select Board to hire a town planner and economic development director, on Monday the board appointed Alvin Allen, who has been serving as a planner in the Springfield Office of Planning and Economic...
WESTFIELD — Horticulture technology at Westfield Technical Academy is getting ready for its popular Annual Spring Plant Sale on Tuesday, May 6, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, May 7 and 8, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Friday, May 9,...
CLARKSBURG — Forty-three years later, John Morris still remembers hearing a thunderous boom and watching a fireball roll through the parking lot of his family home and business, prompting him and his parents to escape up a wooded hillside.It was 1982, and a Cumberland Farms...
WESTFIELD - Organizer Patty Wright is seeking participants for a citywide tag sale weekend on May 17 and 18. All addresses in the 01085 zip code are invited to participate in any way they’d like — tag sale, bake sale, craft show, flea market or...
Previous Rankings: Mar. 27, Apr. 3, Apr. 10, Apr. 17, Apr. 24Hampshire (12-0; Last Rank: 1)Westfield (8-3; 2)Turners Falls (10-3; 3)Greenfield (8-3; 4)Frontier (6-4; 5)Lenox (11-0; 7)East Longmeadow (9-3; 8)Longmeadow (6-5; 9)South Hadley (6-4; 11)Agawam (5-5; 10)Hopkins Academy (11-2; 12)Franklin Tech (8-3; 13)Taconic (5-6; 17)Pittsfield...
I’ve been a major “Some Like It Hot” fanboy, since the musical released a video of the title song in the summer of 2022, a hint of the musical’s sizzle. I saw the musical in previews on Broadway, and took to it instantly. I’ve worn...
Dear Abby: I am a 55-year-old father of a 7-year-old child. My social skills and experience are rusty due to graduate school and post-graduate training years (12 years, to be exact) without much social interaction. I believe I missed an opportunity to bond with our...
HAMPDEN—A nonprofit organization that has put more than one million books into the hands of underserved children in Western Massachusetts is honoring the philanthropist, along with her husband, who founded the organization seventeen years ago. Susan Jaye-Kaplan launched Link to Libraries in 2008 with a...
The U.S. Department of Justice quietly instituted a policy in April that allows immigration judges to throw out immigrant asylum cases without a hearing.In an April 11 memo issued by the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review Acting Director Sirce Owen, directed judges overseeing asylum...