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The new dispatch system allows for more efficient communication between Ludlow police and fire departments, and a quicker emergency response time.
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Dozens of Massachusetts school districts are being told, later than usual in the school budget process, more state funding is being put in the House budget due to a "data" issue that shows more low-income students in schools than initially counted.
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Following a high profile fatal stabbing in western Massachusetts, we checked in with domestic violence organizations about the current level of demand for their services, as well as issues of inequity in criminal justice outcomes and media attention for victims.
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For decades, every president of the Massachusetts state Senate has had their official portrait painted and hung in the State House. In the near future, that will include the last western Massachusetts lawmaker to lead the Senate, Stanley Rosenberg.
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Many western Massachusetts schools are finalizing their budgets and facing possible cuts of teachers, support staff.
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Jasmine Kerrissey, the director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said that it is all pointing to a possible reversal of the downward trend of union membership in the country.
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Merriam-Webster is poised to have greater influence over language decisions made by news reporters and editors across the country.
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The city of Springfield on Monday launched a campaign highlighting mental health resources available to first responders.
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Following a meeting with school administrators, student protesters at Smith College, who are a part of the group Students for Justice in Palestine, moved their occupation from College Hall to a nearby lawn on the Northampton, Massachusetts, campus.
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People gathered across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine to experience the 2024 total solar eclipse, and they had great weather for it.
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A partial solar eclipse captured the attention of much of western Massachusetts on Monday, with generally clear skies and warm weather.
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While an expected Massachusetts House budget redraft is expected, and talks are ongoing over a FY'24 spending bill, the solar eclipse might distract lawmakers, if only for a few moments, from focus on these and other pressing legislation.
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The high school robotics teams are putting their engineering skills to the test in competing matches at the New England FIRST District Robotics Championship through Saturday.
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The National Weather Service said that preliminary reports from the United States Geological Survey indicated that a magnitude 4.8 earthquake was recorded in north central New Jersey on Friday.