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State agency says Nashoba hospital is ‘essential;’ Select Board weighs effects of Aug. 31 closing
Legislators to Healey: Put up state money to save NVMC. State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, Rep. Dan Sena, and five legislators who represent towns served by Nashoba Hospital urged Gov. Healey Wednesday afternoon to confirm to potential operators that state money will be available to assist a new owner. Here’s what they wrote:
Mass. State Lottery winner: $100,000 ticket sold at Cape Cod shop
Someone who stopped at a shop on Cape Cod and picked up a lottery ticket came forward to claim a $100,000 prize on Wednesday. The $100,000 prize was from “$15,000,000 Money Maker,” a $30 scratch ticket game released on April 19, 2022. There are just 17 prizes worth...
MBTA reduced fare program launches in September. Here's how to know if you're eligible
Here's how you can pay less and ride more on public transportation in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced that they will be expanding access to cheaper fare prices to some eligible riders starting Sept. 4, 2024. ...
Massachusetts sees 1st human case of Eastern equine encephalitis since 2020. Here's what to know
A human case of Eastern equine encephalitis was identified in Massachusetts for the first time since 2020. Now the state's public health department is ringing the alarm in multiple communities to protect against the potentially deadly virus. Last week, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said a man in his...
Mass. pharmacist pleads no contest in Michigan deaths from meningitis outbreak
A Massachusetts pharmacist pleaded no contest Thursday to involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of 11 people in Michigan, all victims of tainted steroids that caused a national meningitis outbreak in 2012. Glenn Chin, 56, will get a 7 1/2-year prison sentence in October. He will benefit by receiving credit for...
First Recorded Tornado Outbreak Walloped New England in 1787
Massachusetts experienced the first tornado – or whirlwind, as they called it – ever recorded in what we now refer to as the continental United States. Of course, there were likely many other tornados before then, but the European settlers armed with their quill pens and parchments hadn't arrived to write about them.
Introducing Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media Michelle Trujillo
“I’ve taught a variety of filmmaking classes at various levels,” Trujillo says, “but I usually enjoy teaching analog filmmaking the most. Teaching 16mm filmmaking brings me back to the wonder I felt when I was first learning it.”. Trujillo completed her undergraduate studies at Florida Atlantic University,...
Family searching for missing Massachusetts man in South Carolina
HILTON HEAD, S.C. (WLNE) — A family from Massachusetts is asking the public’s help in locating a man who went missing. 60-year-old Stanley Kotowski of Methuen disappeared last week at Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island, according to a report from ABC6’s affiliate station, WCVB. In...
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