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Taunton Student Wins Logo Contest For 2024 Lights On Festival
TAUNTON (WBSM) — A Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical student's design will be the official 2024 logo for the Taunton Lights On Festival. Jake Aumock, an 11th-grade student in Bristol-Plymouth's Graphic Design technical program, was announced as the winner this week. Along with having his design chosen, Aumock will also receive...
‘Into Light’ exhibit showcases the real people, stories behind drug addiction
Each graphite portrait and brief narrative in the exhibition, entitled "Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories Massachusetts," represents another 65 people who died of drug overdoses in The Bay State in 2023, the description explains.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island’s Different ‘Quahog’ Pronunciation
There is nothing like hearing folks from out of state mispronounce words we have been pronouncing correctly here in Massachusetts forever. An example is the word quahog. Any blue-blooded Massachusetts native, especially those from the most prominent fishing port of New Bedford, knows how to pronounce quahog. We grew up eating these things.
'Keep this road race going': 30 years after police officer's killing, Giunta 5K runs on
FALL RIVER — Police Sgt. Erick Bettencourt addressed Uniform Division officers at roll call recently, asking them to remember that they're connected to history. “There’s a guy on our job right now whose dad worked here, and his dad sat down at roll call one day, just like you guys are now,...
'Total turnaround': Brockton schools safety report — key findings, what's being done
BROCKTON — Brockton Superintendent Priya Tahiliani on Tuesday night presented the findings of the state-funded safety and security audit — which state officials commissioned back in February following many accounts of student violence and security concerns from Brockton Public Schools staff last school year. Tahiliani said many of the high-priority issues from last school year have been addressed or are being addressed and many of the recommendations from the audit report, which was conducted from March to...
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