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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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On The Rundown, we discuss the potential for local access to the Quabbin Reservoir drinking supply, the budget deficits facing many regional schools, and the termination of a key rail car manufacturing contract.
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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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There will be 25 new police officers joining the Springfield Police Department and most of the new officers will be women.
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Beyond Mobility is a Massachusetts Department of Transportation document the state and agencies will use for the next 25 years to build-out and maintain the transportation infrastructure in Massachusetts.
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Law enforcement officials say bullets have shattered the glass doors of two separate homes in Belchertown over the last nine months.
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The MWRA board is undertaking a preliminary study to direct water from the Quabbin Reservoir — which provides Boston and other eastern Massachusetts communities with drinking water — to the western Mass. towns that surround and protect the reservoir.
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The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services’ new tool for tracking lithium-ion battery fires has helped to identify 50 such incidents in the past six months.