Arts & Culture
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The Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival highlights locally and nationally acclaimed performers and incorporates art projects into the festivities.
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The Black Men of Greater Springfield organization is able to offer the program to families for free with city and state funding.
Regional news
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Jesse Costa/WBURThe new state climate law will have a big impact on clean energy policy in the state. -
Alicea Charamut/Rivers Alliance of Connecticut Provided PhotographThe drought is worsening in most parts of New England, and advocates say it’s a good time to be talking to the public about climate change.
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Holyoke Planning & Economic Development Office/SubmittedValleyBike is the first bike share program in western Massachusetts with more than seven cities joining the program since its inception in 2018.
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CourtesyNEPM's Books for Young People series begins this year with Jim Price's "The Adventures of Harold from the Hood: A Trip to the Park." It's a tale for very young readers that teaches social skills for living in a diverse world.
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Illustrator & author Diane deGroat releases “The Adventures of Robo-Kid”
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History
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"Dear Mister Ward" is a collection of unearthed letters from almost 100 years ago, written to the complaint department of Montgomery Ward, a full-service mail-order catalog, the Amazon of its time. They recently were read aloud by actors at a theater in western Massachusetts.
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The first televised debate in the Democratic Massachusetts state auditor primary got heated at times as the candidates sought to hold each other accountable for their respective voting histories and to differentiate their experience. -
Vermont's primary election was Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Keep tabs on Vermont Public's primary reporting and results by bookmarking this page.
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It was the first debate scheduled for the two Democrats running for Massachusetts secretary of state: longtime incumbent William Galvin and Tanisha Sullivan, president of the NAACP's Boston chapter since 2017.
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Despite lawmakers' decision to scrap tax relief measures in the final days of the Massachusetts legislative session, taxpayers will likely get some money back.
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Baker signed a new bond bill last week, but excluded a five-year prohibition on building prisons and jails, which the Legislature had signed off on.
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Fiestas Patronales — or the festival of the saints — is a yearly festival held in each municipality of the island of Puerto Rico.
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The visit comes less than two weeks after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, which prompted days of threatening military exercises by China.