Adam Frenier
All Things Considered Reporter/Producer/HostAdam joined NEPM as a freelance reporter and fill-in operations assistant during the summer of 2011. For more than 15 years, Adam has had a number stops throughout his broadcast career, including as a news reporter and anchor, sports host and play-by-play announcer as well as a producer and technician.
Adam graduated from UMass Amherst in 2004 with a B.A. in History.
He can be reached at adam_frenier [at] nepm.org.
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The agency, SEPTA, announced late last week it is terminating its $185-million contract with Springfield, Massachusetts-based CRRC, for 45 train cars for its commuter railroad.
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A new GBH News/Commonwealth Beacon poll of Massachusetts residents has President Joe Biden with a comfortable lead in his reelection bid. But may of those surveyed are concerned about tensions in politics — and possible election violence.
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Construction of a new state-run veterans’ home in Holyoke is progressing. The $480-million project will replace the current building. Formerly known as the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, the facility in use now was the site of a deadly 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, where at least 76 veterans died.
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The number of people dying from overdoses in rural areas in Massachusetts is dramatically higher than it was about a decade ago, according to state public health data.
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Some local and state law enforcement officials in Massachusetts have said they are having trouble recruiting candidates to become police officers. And some criminal justice educators at area colleges and universities said the reasons for this vary.
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Former superintendent of Holyoke Soldiers Home, Bennett Walsh, and former medical director, Dr. David Clinton, separately changed their pleas from not guilty. They each submitted that there were sufficient facts to warrant a guilty finding. They did not plead guilty, however.
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Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported Wednesday that MGM was in the early stages of looking into selling off the facility, but also said it was possible no sale would take place.
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The lawsuit, filed in Berkshire Superior Court on Thursday, alleges both companies knew decades ago that PCBs could be harmful when they sold and used the chemical compound. The EPA classifies PCBs as "probable human carcinogens."
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The Smith College basketball team will play in its second consecutive Women's Division Three Final Four on Thursday afternoon — with a trip to the national championship game on the line.
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The person responsible for firing the gun at the High School of Science and Technology in Springfield has been identified, but not been arrested yet, police said.