An Appeals Court judge late Wednesday said Goldberg was not likely to succeed in her appeal and denied the treasurer's request to block O'Brien from returning to her job as CCC chair while the appeal played out. With that stay denied, Goldberg said Thursday she informed the attorney general's office that she does not want to press the appeal any further.

One-term incumbent Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra is slated to square off against challenge Jillian Duclos in November's general election. They were the top-two vote getters in Tuesday's preliminary election.

Matt Donovan and Ligia Bouton created an exhibit that uses fragments of Emily Dickinson's poems and belongings to create a sense of the poet's mysterious work.

Amid a statewide housing crisis, renters across Western Massachusetts communities are banding together in hopes of resisting a trend of rising rents across the region and the state.