GROTON — Voters in Groton and Dunstable soundly rejected a proposed Proposition 2½ tax limit override, leaving their Select Boards and the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee facing a hard deadline of June 30 to have new fiscal 2025 budgets approved.
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Weekend ice skating show
FITCHBURG – The public is invited to the 51st annual Wallace Figure Skating Club ice skating show on Saturday, April 6 at 3 p.m. Wallace Figure Skating Club President Kathy Valera shared that the ‘Gliding Through the Year’ event held at the Wallace Civic Center, 1000 John Fitch Hwy., “highlights all the hard work our […]
‘The things that move me most’
WORCESTER — This coming June the Worcester Art Museum will present “Jakob Fioole: The Sally Bishop Prize,” a solo exhibition of work by the winner of the Sally Bishop Prize, the top honor at the 2023 ArtsWorcester Biennial. The exhibition comprises 18 paintings by Worcester-area artist Jakob Fioole, all created within the last six years. […]
Coward! Steward Health CEO dodges Senate hearing
A chair for Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre was notably vacant during the Senate’s hearing on the catastrophic financial mismanagement of the company’s Massachusetts hospitals and growing precarious role of private equity in healthcare Wednesday.
Official: Footage of bus driver shoving student ‘horrifying’
TOWNSEND — A school bus driver accused of shoving an eighth grade student to the floor of the bus during the ride home on Tuesday now faces a charge of assault and battery.
The Massachusetts man who received a pig kidney transplant discharged from MGH: ‘One of the happiest moments of my life’
The Weymouth man who received the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital.