CHICOPEE — Charter flights will return to Westover Metropolitan Airport for the first time in three years, giving a boost to the small transportation center.Reney Tours will resume charter flights to Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday night, when a 183-seat Boeing 737-800 Sun Country...
A proposed ballot question filed this week could return rent control to Massachusetts for the first time in decades.The ballot question would give cities and towns in the state the option to enact local regulations protecting tenants. Those regulations could govern rent, fees and deposits,...
Thursday afternoon, Daniel Luis Rivera pleaded guilty to his role in disposing of a man’s body back in 2019 that was found in the woods, burned and covered in bubble wrap in Worcester.According to court documents, Rivera, 30, from Worcester, pleaded guilty to one count...
A Central Massachusetts town is being sued for refusing to comply with a zoning law meant to increase the housing supply in communities served by the MBTA.In a lawsuit filed Thursday against the town of Holden, the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance, along with a low-income...
The combined comedic forces of Jon Stewart, John Mulaney and Pete Davidson are coming to Springfield’s MassMutual Center this fall as part of the “Jon, John & Pete” tour.MGM Springfield, which is presenting this event, said in a news release that the event will take...
CHICOPEE — Amanda Munson picked nursing to study at Elms College, but not because she loved it.“(Nursing) was not my passion,” Munson recently told The Republican.She said she chose it because of the higher wage that the career paid upon graduation, even though her true...
The Red Sox didn’t land a starting pitcher before Tuesday’s trade deadline but they reportedly tried to land one of the biggest names on the market.Boston pursued Justin Verlander before the Mets traded him to the Astros, according to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. It’s not...
To say Alyssa Thomas has been having an unreal year for the Connecticut Sun would be an understatement, and she was honored by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for making WNBA history earlier this year.The Hall now features Thomas’ game-worn Connecticut Sun jersey and...
Not for the first time, residents of Chicopee have had reason to question whether an elected official’s conduct warrants removal from office.They had reason – but no tool. For more than 13 months, a proposal to amend the city’s charter to provide that means has...
By Doug Wyllie Like other “soft-on-crime” DAs Kim Foxx, Larry Krasner, and George Gascón backed by liberal-billionaire-mega-donor George Soros, Travis County District Attorney José Garza is a sheep in wolves clothes, more interested in virtue signaling and political pandering than protecting the very weird denizens...
